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170 Barry’s Advanced Construction of Buildings<br />

a height of around 1500 mm as protection against accidental impact damage, with wall<br />

sheeting above.<br />

North light steel lattice truss construction<br />

The north light roof has an asymmetrical profile with the south-facing slope pitched at 17°<br />

or more to the horizontal and the north-facing slope at around 60°, as illustrated in Figure<br />

4.7 and Figure 4.8. To limit the volume of unusable roof space (that has to be heated) most<br />

north light roofs are limited to spans of up to about 10 m.<br />

Multi-bay lattice steel roof truss construction<br />

To cover large areas, it is common practice to use two or more bays of symmetrical pitch<br />

roofs to both limit the volume of roof space and the length of the members of the trusses.<br />

Lattice steel north<br />

light roof truss<br />

Purlins fixed across<br />

trusses support roof<br />

covering<br />

Purlins fixed<br />

across north<br />

slope support<br />

roof glazing<br />

Up to 12.0<br />

Sheeting<br />

rails<br />

Column<br />

3.0<br />

to<br />

5.0<br />

Figure 4.7 Single-bay north light lattice steel roof trusses on steel columns.<br />

Corrugated<br />

sheeting<br />

to roof<br />

Glazed north<br />

slope of roof<br />

Corrugated<br />

sheeting to<br />

side and end<br />

walls<br />

Figure 4.8 Single-bay lattice steel north light roof on columns with corrugated<br />

sheeting.

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