Kirkland Lake, ON

60 kW Commercial Rooftop Solar, Kirkland Lake

Structural review of an as-built 60 kW rooftop solar array on a commercial building in Kirkland Lake, northern Ontario.

Drone view of a 60 kW rooftop solar array on a commercial building in Kirkland Lake, Ontario

Location

Kirkland Lake, ON

Project type

Solar · Commercial 60 kW

Scope

As-built array review · Roof load checks · Sealed engineering

The project

A solar installer completed a 60 kW PV system, with Solis string inverters, across the flat and metal roofs of a commercial building in Kirkland Lake. Once the array was in place, the installation needed an engineer’s structural review to confirm the roofs could carry it. Northern Ontario sites carry some of the province’s highest snow loads, which makes that check especially important.

What KMG did

  • Reviewed the as-built array layout across the building’s roof areas

  • Checked the existing roof structure for the added dead, snow and wind loads under the Ontario Building Code

  • Reviewed the array’s attachment and ballast approach

  • Issued sealed engineering confirming the structure for the as-built system

The result

The installer received sealed confirmation that the as-built 60 kW array works with the existing roof structure under northern Ontario snow and wind conditions.

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