Roof of new USOC building nails permanent fix
November 19th, 2009, 5:41 pm · 1 Comment · posted by dchacon
Big chunks of snow and ice will no longer fall off of the roof of the brand spankin’ new U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters at 27 S. Tejon St. if a construction project scheduled to start at 9 a.m. tomorrow is successful.
The city, which announced earlier this week that a temporary fix was in the works, said today that a permanent solution has been identified, “eliminating the need for temporary steps.”
“The problem appears to be related to there not being enough flanges on the slope of the metal roof,” city spokesman John Leavitt said in an e-mail.
“The fix will add more flanges to the sloped roof to hold snow in place until it has a chance to melt away naturally,” he said.
Leavitt said he didn’t know the cost of the roof work, which is scheduled to be completed by the middle of next week.
But the cost won’t be shouldered by taxpayers.
“The cost is being born entirely by contractors and architects,” Leavitt said.
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As an architect, I was very surprised when I saw the aerial view of the roof which clearly showed that the only snow retention clips were attached to the standing seams of the roof which are about 18″ apart and stand about 2″ high. Then the clips themselves were built with a
vertical leg that went up another 1″ or more before the actual “flange” as you call it flared out. Any snowfall of 3″ or less wouldn’t even contact the “flange.” So when the sun comes out and starts to heat up the roof, that 16″ wide section of snow up to 3″ high gets a little icy water melted under it and whoosh! down it goes. I’m sure the solution will be to install some snow retention clips in the flat part of the roof panels where they should have been to start!
As an aside, why in a City ripe with good archtectural firms, on a city funded project was an out-of-city architect used on this project?
As a second aside, will someone at the Gazette investigate the square foot costs of this building and print them for all citizens to see.
The few cost numbers I have seen appear to be VERY HIGH! And now the numbers that I have seen for tenant finish work are indicative of platinum and diamond finishes.