Hi,
Given the current weather, I was curious on this and felt this was a topical question worth sharing!
The building I work in was built circa 2005 and is about 3 floors high and approximately L shaped. It has pitched slate roofs with quite a steep pitch.
During the current weather, snow has built up and when the temperature warms up in the day, the slate roof warms and the snow loses grip and then whole lot on that face releases like an avalanche.
It dumps probably about 2-3 tonnes of snow from a height of 3 floors
From inside the building there is a large rumble and then you see it fall.
It then lands about 20-30 ft out from the base of the building.
Given that it could be onto the car park with people walking, cars etc or even worse off the other side, where it's public pavements outside work's premises, it could be quite bad and put someone in hospital (or worse).
I have seen significant snow fall off before - this happened a couple of times before (last year or so) but with the snow this year, the amounts are a bit greater.
It seems that there are some metal shutters at floor heights 1 & 2, but these only protrude about 6 ft. The falling snow clears them by a long way and they are ineffective. I suspect they were maybe there for rain protection walking around the path up against the building.
My question is.... is the building design defective and the architects/designers miss something?
Given we only lease this building, should they rectify it with some sort of guards on the roof to stop such large amounts sliding?
Company's response so far is to put notices on the door to beware of falling snow!!
Given the current weather, I was curious on this and felt this was a topical question worth sharing!
The building I work in was built circa 2005 and is about 3 floors high and approximately L shaped. It has pitched slate roofs with quite a steep pitch.
During the current weather, snow has built up and when the temperature warms up in the day, the slate roof warms and the snow loses grip and then whole lot on that face releases like an avalanche.
It dumps probably about 2-3 tonnes of snow from a height of 3 floors
From inside the building there is a large rumble and then you see it fall.
It then lands about 20-30 ft out from the base of the building.
Given that it could be onto the car park with people walking, cars etc or even worse off the other side, where it's public pavements outside work's premises, it could be quite bad and put someone in hospital (or worse).
I have seen significant snow fall off before - this happened a couple of times before (last year or so) but with the snow this year, the amounts are a bit greater.
It seems that there are some metal shutters at floor heights 1 & 2, but these only protrude about 6 ft. The falling snow clears them by a long way and they are ineffective. I suspect they were maybe there for rain protection walking around the path up against the building.
My question is.... is the building design defective and the architects/designers miss something?
Given we only lease this building, should they rectify it with some sort of guards on the roof to stop such large amounts sliding?
Company's response so far is to put notices on the door to beware of falling snow!!