Photo: Courtesy of ATAS International Inc.
FleischmanGarcia Architecture designed Riverview Library in Old Florida Grandeur style with high-tech amenities. Inspiration came from old Florida postcards and 1940s coastal aesthetics. The owner, Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, wanted a sloped roof with a 50- to 60-year life span that would support solar panels.
To ensure the roof would outlast the service life of the solar panels, and wouldn’t require the solar panels to be uninstalled/reinstalled in order to replace the roof, architects, based on its longevity, specified a standing seam aluminum roof.
Alpha Roofing and Sheet Metal LLC installed 44,276 square feet of straight standing seam metal roof panels and 3,939 square feet of tapered standing seam metal roof panels, supplied by ATAS International Inc.
Tapering panels in the factory ensured quality, dimensional accuracy and easier installation. Tapered panels were used at a rounded eave area, to the the east side of the main entrance, between two towers.
ATAS supplied its 0.04-inch-thick aluminum Field-Lok standing seam panels with 2-inch seams in Dove Grey. The double-locked structural panels are 15 1/4 inches wide and mechanically seamed. On the roof, Solar Advantage LLC installed 340 of JinkoSolar (U.S.) Inc.’s Cheetah 72M 380- to 400-watt mono passivated emitter and rear contact (PERC) photovoltaic modules with S-5!’s nonpenetrating U-Clamps.
The new, 35,000-square-foot Riverview Library replaced an 8,000-square-foot building constructed in 1979. It has eight meeting rooms, maker-space, recording studio with two editing suites, 5,000-square-foot early learning space, bookstore, vending cafe, and covered and screened-in reading porch.
