Chapter 4: Building Systems

Question 1

Firefighters should be aware of the location of emergency shut off’s for escalators. Properly stop escalators may be used as____doing emergency conditions.

Answer 1

Fixed stairs

Question 2

What type of elevators are larger than passenger elevators and may support heavier and bulky loads, it may also deliver to a small range of floors?

Answer 2

Freight elevators

Question 3

Traction elevators are especially common in buildings over how many stories?

Answer 3

6 stories

Question 4

These walls constructed early in the process of a the making of a building support structures against lateral loads

Answer 4

Shear walls

Question 5

What are the two types of pressurize stairwell systems?

Answer 5

Single injection system

Multiple injection system

Question 6

Your discharge point into the stairwell are located at several points along to stay away using this type of pressurized system?

Answer 6

Multiple injections systems

Question 7

A limitation of this pressurize injection system is that the doors are open at a point close to the air supply all of the air pressure can flow directly out of the stairwell stairwell

Answer 7

Single injection system