An Introduction to the New ASCE Solar PV Structures Manual of Practice

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At this time the U.S. solar industry is operating without solar specific structural consensus standards or codes to provide engineers, owners, manufacturers, developers, and contractors guidance on how to design and build solar photovoltaic (PV) structures. Design engineers and manufacturers have to rely on what they can interpret from the local building codes, or any literature they can find, to design these unique structures. The challenge with allowing a young industry to grow and mature under this type of model is that it results in a wide variety of interpretations of the codes and design literature that leads to a lack of reliability of many solar PV structures.To provide a more reliable and consistent approach to the design of solar PV structures the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) has through the Solar PV Structures Committee developed a Manual of Practice. This Manual will provide guidelines that engineers can use to rationally design solar PV structures for ground mounted PV, elevated PV, rooftop PV, and floating PV. The committee is made up of structural engineers, geotechnical engineers, contractors, tracker manufacturers, wind specialists, solar developers, and owners who are all working together to provide this guidance document.

Course will award 1.0 hour of continuing education
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Contributors

Steve Gartner, P.E., Principal Engineer Renewable Energy, Chair ASCE Solar PV Structures Committee

Steve is a structural engineer with experience designing power and energy facilities that range from traditional thermal generation to renewable energy. Structure types range from wind turbine towers and their foundations, solar PV ground mount foundations and structures for both fixed tilt and trackers, BESS foundations and enclosure structures, turbine and engine generator foundations, utility substation structures and their foundations, and general equipment for power generation facilities including boilers, steel stacks, dust collectors, and industrial ductwork. Steve is currently serving as Chair of the ASCE Solar PV Structures Committee and is an Associate Member of the ASCE 7 Load Combinations Subcommittee.

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Contributors

Steve Gartner, P.E., Principal Engineer Renewable Energy, Chair ASCE Solar PV Structures Committee