Chapter 1 Flashcards
The use of a single organization to design and build a facility to minimize risk for the project owner.
Design build
Guidelines apply to basic units of a project that cause the items to work together as a unified, completely finished items that serves a purpose within a Stabley should parameters.
Design principles
A set of rules developed by a standard organization and adopted as law by government body to regulate the minimum requirements for construction, renovation and maintenance of buildings
Building code
Authorization issue from appropriate authority having jurisdiction before any new construction, addition, renovation, alteration, or demolition of buildings or structures the cars
Building permit
Group of people, usually 5 to 7, with experience and fire prevention, building construction, and or code enforcement, who are legally constituted to arbitrate differences of opinion between fire and building officials, property owners, articles or builders
Board of appeals
Strategy to reduce the overall time for completion of a project by merging the design and construction phase is. Often used in conjunction with design build
Fast track construction
Assessment of a facility or location made before an emergency occurs, in order to prepare for an appropriate emergency response. Also known as pre-plan
Pre incident survey
Active preparing to manage an incident at a particular location articular type of incident before an incident occurs. Also known as pre-fire inspection, pre-fire planning, pre-incident inspection, pre-incident survey, or preplanning
Pre-incident planning
A body of law that determines the minimum standards that buildings must meet in the interest of community safety and health
A building code
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
They commonly adopted NFPA code is the?
Life safety code NFPA 101
In capable of supporting combustion under normal circumstances
Non-combustible
The total quantity of combustible contents of a building, space, or fire area, including interior finish and trim, expressed in heat units of the equivalent weight in would
Fuel load
Total amount of heat produced or released to the atmosphere from the convective lift phase of a fire, per unit massive fuel will soon per unit time. Heat released many material Burns, expressed in kilowatts or British thermal units
Heat release rate
Space protected for a fire in normal means of egress either buy an approved sprinkler system, separation from other spaces with in the same building by smoke through walls, or location in adjacent building. Area where persons who are unable to use stairs can temporarily wait for instructions or assistance during an emergency building evacuation
Area of refuge
___May not be required in buildings equipped with an automatic sprinkler system
Areas of refuge
An automatic fire protection system, especially an automatic___, is the first line of defense in many buildings.
Sprinkler system
Process of restoring run down or deteriorated properties by more affluent people, often displacing poor residents
Gentrification
Incorporation of environmental principles including energy efficiency and environmentally friendly building materials into design and construction
Green design
Building built before securing a tenant or occupants.
Spec building. Spec is short for speculation
Fire spread is often expressed in terms of heat transfer through two methods:
Convection and thermal radiation
Transfer of heat energy through the movement of hot smoke and fire gases.
Convection
Transfer of heat energy through space by electromagnetic waves
Thermal radiation
___Is one factor in determining whether a buyer will progress to an exposure. The flames height and width or also relevant.
Fire temperature
NF PA 80 K, recommend a practice for protection from exterior fire exposure, describes three levels of exposure based on potential severity of the exposing far:
Light moderate or severe.
The levels are based on the fire load in flames credit rating of the wall and ceiling finishes of the burning building
Line, area, or zone where an undeveloped wildland area meets a human development area
Wildland/urban interface
Under fire conditions, a buildings ______________is related to the fire resistance and combustibility of its construction materials.
Structural integrity
A chemical process of oxidation that occurs in a rate fast enough to produce heat and usually light in the form of either a glow or flame
Combustion
Refer to any failure to provide a level of fire safety appropriate to the ultimate use of the building.
Design deficiencies
Buildings must have a minimum number of exits based on the expected:
Occupancy capacity and classification
There are only three primary strategies in a fire incident:
Offensive defensive and transitional
Offensive strategies address:
Life hazards.
Structural stability
Risk, benefit outweighs risk
Defensive strategies address:
Volume of fire
Structural deterioration
Risk, risk outweighs benefit
Structural conditions
