Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-10 Thread Joel Davidson
-wrenches Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV Dana, Washington DC, Baltimore MD, San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland CA - none require "roof footing inspections". However, one of our local AHJs does require a letter

Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-09 Thread Allan Sindelar
Dana, You might find this useful: Taking the Red Tape Out of Green Power, http://www.newenergychoices.org/index.php?sd=rt &page=redTape Allan at Positive Energy -Original Message- On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dana Brandt <[

Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-09 Thread Andrew Truitt
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Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-09 Thread Dana Brandt
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Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Israel
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 5:46 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV Hi all, Until recently, we've only been required to have an electrical permit for flush-mounted PV systems. The city has now decided to require building permits for all PV systems and wa

Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-09 Thread David Brearley
We¹re just about the opposite here for residential installations For residential projects, off the shelf, flush mounted racking systems require no building/structural permit. Ground mount and pole mounts do require PE certification. Also flat roof racking and racks off the plane of the roof re

Re: [RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-09 Thread Kirpal Khalsa
Hi Dana..we are also required to pull building/structural permits for our flush roof mount PV systems.typically they require an engineer to sign off on our installation technique and also on the capability of the trusses or the rafters to handle that loads and installation techniquethey

[RE-wrenches] building permits for PV

2008-12-08 Thread Dana Brandt
Hi all, Until recently, we've only been required to have an electrical permit for flush-mounted PV systems. The city has now decided to require building permits for all PV systems and wants to come out and inspect our L-feet attachments and rails before the modules can go up. This seems crazy to m