Patent ID: 8561364
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: E04D

Abstract:
1. A method of constructing a roof-penetrating, environment-accessing structure on a sloping metal roof of a building, the metal roof comprising a plurality of roof panels, having lengths and widths, panel flats extending across the panel widths, edges of adjacent ones of the roof panels meeting and being joined to each other at elevated rib structure portions thereof and thereby defining ribs between the panel flats of adjacent ones of the roof panels, the method comprising: (a) mounting a roof adaptive system to the roof, including a layer of insulation being disposed under, and proximate, the metal roof at and proximate the aperture, the insulation comprising a first layer element comprising a thermally insulating material and a second layer element comprising a facing sheet, (b) cutting the layer of insulation along the length of the aperture; and (c) drawing the layer of insulation up through the aperture and between the surrounded space and the closure members, and capturing the layer of insulation in one or more cavities at the closure members.