Chapter 13 Flashcards
Codes are rewritten and issued every ___ years by NFPA and ICC.
3 years
The term ___, although commonly used for many structures, is a financial/legal term.
Condominium
The usual height for garden style apartments is ___ stories.
3 stories
Garden apartments… The pre incident plan review should address limited parking space, including calling for a minimum of ___ feet of clear width, proper turning radii, red striping of curbs and signage.
20 feet
Usually all the gas meters in an apartment complies are located in one ___ location.
Basement
___ is the only construction material that does not yield heat when burned in pure oxygen.
Gypsum
Most NFPA 13R protected apartment building are required to have a ___ inch fire department connection(FDC)
1 1/2”
There is probably no class of building in which good fire planning and training can pay off more than in ___.
Garden apartments
More recently, row houses have been given dignified new name, ___.
Townhouses
Tenements got their start in the 1800’s. Over the years, this type of multi story multiple dwelling of ordinary construction has come to mean ___.
Substandard housing
___ are built for aesthetic reasons, and aesthetic reason only.
Atria
The top of an atrium does not have to be sprinklered if it is more than ___ feet above the ground floor.
55 feet
Building codes typically allow up to ___ floors to be open to the atrium.
3
Recent building codes have allowed covered mall building to be of unlimited area if they are of type ___ construction and have ___ feet of open space around them.
Type 1, 2, 3, or 4
60 feet
A covered mall with have a class ___ standpipe system.
class 1
Special purpose building may be designed to channel the force of an internal explosion in a desired direction(____).
Explosion venting
Pre WW2 high rise buildings were universally of ___ construction.
Steel framed
The Empire State building weighs about ___ pounds per cubic foot.
23
A typical modern high rise weighs only ___ pounds per cubic foot.
8
In a modern office building, possibly ___% or more of the floor volume is located in the ceiling void.
25%
Modern high rises, stairs are often located in the core and are frequently ___, two stairways in the same shaft.
Scissor stairways
For years, the model building codes have permitted __% of exit stairwells to terminate I the building’s lobby, rather than outdoors.
50%
Some stairways are locked against reentry on all floors. Some codes require doors to be unlocked for reentry on certain floors, typically no more than ___ intervening floors between reentry floors.
4 floors
Other codes require automatic release of locks upon a tie alarm system activation, manual release from the lobby command center and telephone in the stairwells ever ___ floors.
5 floors