Best Practices for Commercial Roof-Mounted Photovoltaic S...
Wills, Rosalie / Steranka, Kristin / Royle, Sara / Milke, James A.
This SpringerBrief presents information on a wide variety of hazards and the damage potential caused by installation of a photovoltaic (PV) system. The current installation practices for PV systems on roofs create electrical, fire, structural, and weather-related hazards that do not comply to current codes, standards and guidance documents. Potential dangers include structural loading, wind loads, hail, snow, debris accumulation, seismic hazar...