Building Construction Ch.1 Flashcards
Large, uncontrollable fire covering a considerable area and crossing fire barriers such as streets and waterways, usually involves buildings in more than one block and causes a substantial far loss, forest fires can be considered this?
Conflagration 
Areas of refuge may not be required in buildings equipped with these?
Automatic sprinkler system
There are only three primary strategies in a fire incident?
Offensive defensive and transitional
What year was the BOCA basic building code ushered in?
1950
What are the five construction types?
Type I fire resistive Type II non combustible Type III exterior protected (ordinary) Type IV heavy timber Type V wood frame
Line, area or zone where in underdeveloped Wildland area to human development area?
Wildland/urban interface
A code that is dedicated to providing safety regulations for life safety, structural and fire protection issues that occur throughout the life of a building?
International building code ( IBC )
Organization that develops the international building code in international fire code for city and state adoption?
International code council(ICC)
Distance from the street line to the front of a building?
Set back
A federal statue intended to remove barriers, physical and otherwise, that limit access by individuals with disabilities?
Americans with disabilities act (ADA)
1990-public law 101-336
The final consideration in the building design process is?
Landscaping
Fahrenheit can be converted to Rankin using this formula?
R=(F-32)+491.67
Fire spread is often expressed in terms of heat transfer through two methods _______ and _____________?
Convection and thermal radiation
An automatic fire protection system , especially an automatic sprinkler system , is the _________________ in many buildings ?
First line of defense
