To provide a safe passageway for pedestrians, Turner Morris Commercial Roofing installed two rows of snow fence atop the renovated spa area of Park Plaza condominiums at the base of the ski resort in Beaver Creek, Colorado. With constant foot traffic and heavy annual snowfall in Beaver Creek, the building owners cannot allow snow and ice to slide off the roof onto the pedestrian areas below.
"The standing seam copper roof is beautiful, but because copper is a softer metal, more care is required to ensure you have the correct product installed to support the weight of the snow and ice buildup throughout the winter without compromising the roof system," says Mark Hubbard, president of Turner Morris Commercial Roofing out of Arvada, Summit County, and Eagle County, Colorado. "With some helpful input from the design team at RMSG, we settled on installing 3-pipe snow fences secured to the copper standing seam metal with S-5!® standard size S clamps, powder coated dark bronze.
"In higher altitude, drier climates like Beaver Creek, copper tends to patina to a dark bronze over time, which will result in the new snow retention system closely matching the color of the copper as it ages."
This award-winning project uses the Blizzard Heavy Duty III with S-5-S standard size clamps. This aluminum 3-pipe clamp-to-seam system spreads the load across the copper seams decreasing the likelihood of failure or damage to the standing seam copper roof.
Turner Morris Commercial Roofing has completed hundreds of projects in high-alpine environments over the past 30+ years. Utilizing Rocky Mountain Snow Guards, a trusted partner, on many of these projects to help design and supply appropriate snow retention systems.
