[Greenbuilding] fireproof light deck

Gennaro Brooks-Church info at ecobrooklyn.com
Mon Apr 4 06:35:46 CDT 2011


I did google some non-combustible composite decking. But apart from that
nothing. I also heard Ipe is no good any more for code. There was some
salvaged Ipe floating around from the Coney Island Boardwalk but that went
pretty fast.

Gennaro Brooks-Church

Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
www.EcoBrooklyn.com
22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231



On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:13 AM, David Bergman <bergman at cyberg.com> wrote:

>  Gennaro,
>
> Add "eco material" to that description and it becomes an old quest of mine.
> Are you talking about something to sit directly on the "real" roof? About
> the best I could come up with when I last tackled the question was
> lightweight concrete roof pavers -- not all that eco though maybe there are
> some made with flyash.
>
> In terms of wood, NYC used to accept Ipe, but I heard a rumor they stopped
> when the fire rating claims didn't prove out. And, of course, there was the
> rainforest sourcing issue.
>
> I've looked for fire-rated recycled plastic lumber from time to time, but
> have not yet found any. (Tim V-K: any updates you've heard of?)
>
> There is a group called Brooklyn Bridge Forest (http://www.brooklynbridgeforest.com/)
> that is trying to set up a sustainable source for greenheart for maintaining
> the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm not sure what kind of fire rating greenheart does
> or doesn't have. (According to one site I just googled, it carries a
> "high/medium" rating.)
>
> David
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> At 08:01 PM 4/3/2011, Gennaro Brooks-Church wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Can anyone suggest a lightweight non-combustible deck material for a roof
> deck?
> In New York a brownstone has an average flat roof of 700sq.ft. The law only
> allows 20% of it to be covered with combustible decking, which isn't much of
> a deck. Yet the non-combustible decking is too heavy for the old roofs.
> Suggestion?
>
> Gennaro Brooks-Church
>
> Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
> www.EcoBrooklyn.com
> 22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231
>
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