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Greenhouse Design

The document outlines the design requirements for a greenhouse, including load specifications for dead, live, wind, and snow loads. It emphasizes the importance of orientation to avoid shading between greenhouses, size limitations, and appropriate spacing to ensure ventilation. Additionally, it specifies maximum height and ventilation dimensions for optimal structural integrity and airflow.

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Greenhouse Design

The document outlines the design requirements for a greenhouse, including load specifications for dead, live, wind, and snow loads. It emphasizes the importance of orientation to avoid shading between greenhouses, size limitations, and appropriate spacing to ensure ventilation. Additionally, it specifies maximum height and ventilation dimensions for optimal structural integrity and airflow.

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Greenhouse

design
• The structure has to carry the following loads and is to be
designed accordingly.
a. Dead load: weight of all permanent construction, cladding,
heating and cooling equipment, water pipes and all fixed
service equipments to the frame.
b. Live load: weights superimposed by use (include hanging
baskets, shelves and persons working on roof).
The greenhouse has to be designed for a maximum of 15 kg
per square meter live load. Each member of roof should be capable
of supporting 45 kg of concentrated load when applied at its
centre.
c. Wind load: The structure should be able to withstand winds of
110 kilometer per hour and at least 50 kg per square meter of
wind pressure.
d. Snow load: These are to be taken as per the average snowfall
of the location
Orientation
• The location and orientation of the greenhouse should avoid falling
of shadow on the adjacent greenhouses. To avoid the shading effect
from one green house to another greenhouse these should be
oriented East to West.
• However, the wind direction and latitude are also to be considered.

Size of the greenhouse


• The dimension of NAV GH should not be more than 50m x 50m.
Bigger the greenhouse, more will be the temperature build up due
to poor ventilation.
• The length of evaporatively cooled greenhouse should not be more
than 60m x 60m.
Spacing between greenhouses
• The spacing between naturally ventilated green house
should be 10 to 15 m so that the exhaust from one
greenhouse should not enter the adjacent greenhouse.

Height of greenhouse
• The maximum height can be up to 5m for 50m x 50m
green house and this can be reduced as per the reduced
size of the green house.
• Higher is the greenhouse more is the wind load for
structure. The side ventilation can be of 2 m width and
roof ventilation is 1m in width.

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