Chapter 6 - Building Construction

Question 1

An older type of wood frame construction in which the wall studs extend vertically from the basement of a structure to the roof without any fire stops

Answer 1

Balloon-frame construction

Question 2

A tress that is curved on the top and straight on the bottom.

Answer 2

Bowstring truss

Question 3

The property describing whether a material will burn and how quickly it will burn

Answer 3

Combustability

Question 4

Buildings constructed since about 1970 that incorporate lightweight construction techniques and engineered wood components. these buildings exhibit less resistance to fire than older buildings.

Answer 4

Contemporary construction

Question 5

Non-bearing walls that seperate the inside and outside of the building but are not part of the support structure for the building.

Answer 5

Curtain wall

Question 6

A roof with a curved shape

Answer 6

Curved roof

Question 7

The weight of all materials incorporated into the building but not limited to walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairways, built in partitions, finishes, cladding and other similarly incorparoated architectural and structural items, and fixed service equipment including the weight of cranes (NFPA 5000)

Answer 7

Dead Load

Question 8

A wall, other than a fire wall, having a fire-resistance rating (NFPA 5000)

Answer 8

Fire barrier Wall

Question 9

Any combination of a fire door, frame, hardware, and other accessories that together provide a specific degree of fire protection to the opening (NFPA 80)

Answer 9

Fire door assembly

Question 10

The measure of the ability of a material, product, or assembly to withstand fire or give protection from it. (NFPA 251)

Answer 10

Fire resistance

Question 11

A horizontal or vertical fire resistance-rated assembly of materials that have protected openings and are designed to restrict the spread of fire (NFPA 45)

Answer 11

Fire separation

Question 12

A wall separating buildings or subdividing a building to prevent the spread of fire and having a fire-resistance rating and structural stability. (NFPA 5000)

Answer 12

Fire Wall

Question 13

A window assembly rated in accordance with NFPA 257 and installed in accordance with NFPA 80 (NFPA 5000)

Answer 13

Fire window

Question 14

A horizontal roof; often found on commercial or industrial occupancies

Answer 14

Flat roof

Question 15

Thick peices of glass are similar to bricks or tiles

Answer 15

Glass blocks

Question 16

Connecting plate made of a thin sheet of steel used to connect the components of a truss. May also be referred to as a gang nail

Answer 16

Gusset plate

Question 17

A naturally occuring material consisting of calcium sulfate and water molecules

Answer 17

Gypsum

Question 18

The generic name for a family of sheet products consisting of a non-combustible core primarily of gypsum with paper surfacing (NFPA 5000)

Answer 18

Gypsum board

Question 19

A building that does not fit entirely into any of the five construction types becaiuse it incorporates building materials of more than one type.

Answer 19

Hybrid building

Question 20

The exposed surfaces of walls, ceilings, and floors with buildings (NFPA 5000)

Answer 20

Interior finish

Question 21

Safety glass; the process places a thin layer of plastic between two layers of glass so that the glass does not shatter and fall apart when broken.

Answer 21

Laminated glass

Question 22

Pieces of wood that are glued together

Answer 22

Laminated wood

Question 23

An older type of construction that used sawn lumber and was built before about 1970

Answer 23

Legacy construction

Question 24

The load produced by the use and occupancy of the building or other structure, which does not include construction or environmental loads such as wind load, snow load, rain load, earthquake load, flood load, or dead load. On a roof, it is produced (1) during the maintenance by workers, equipment and materials and (2) during the life of the structure by movable objects such as planters and by people (NFPA 5000)

Answer 24

Live load

Question 25

A wall that supports any vertical load in addtion to its own weight or any lateral load

Answer 25

Load bearing wall

Question 26

A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the travelling mode, is 2.4m (8 body ft) or more in width or 12m (40 body ft) or more in length or, when erected on site, is 29.7m^2 (320ft^2) or more and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained therein (NFPA 5000)

Answer 26

Manufactured Home

Question 27

Built-up unit of construction or combination of materials such as clay, shale, concreete, glass, gypsum, tile, or stone set in mortar, (NFPA 5000)

Answer 27

Masonry

Question 28

Any wall that is not a bearing wall (NFPA 5000)

Answer 28

Nonbearing wall

Question 29

The purpose for which a building or other structure, or part thereof, is used or intended to be used (NFPA 5000)

Answer 29

Occupancy

Question 30

An engineered wood product manufactured from small pieces of wood that are held together with glue or adhesives. The adhesives include urea-formaldehyde resins, phenol-formaldehyde resins, melamine-formaldehyde resins and polyurethane resins

Answer 30

Oriented strand board

Question 31

A truss in which the top and bottom chords are parallel

Answer 31

Parallel chord truss

Question 32

A wall constructed on the line between two properties

Answer 32

Party wall

Question 33

A type of truss specifically used to support a sloping roof

Answer 33

Pitched chord truss

Question 34

A roof with sloping or inclined surfaces

Answer 34

Pitched roof

Question 35

Construction technique for building the frame of the structure one floor at a time. Each floor has a top and bottom plate that acts as a firestop

Answer 35

Platform frame construction

Question 36

Joists that are mounted in an inclined position to support a roof

Answer 36

Rafters

Question 37

Chipping or pitting of concrete or masonry surfaces (NFPA 921)

Answer 37

Spalling

Question 38

A type of safety glass that is heat treated so that, under stress or fire, it will break into small pieces that are not as dangerous

Answer 38

Tempered glass

Question 39

A property that describes how quickly material will conduct heat

Answer 39

Thermal conductivity

Question 40

Plastic material capable of being repeatedly softened by heating and hardened by cooling and that, in the softened state, can be repeatedly shaped by molding or forming (NFPA 5000)

Answer 40

Thermoplastic material

Question 41

Plastic material that, after having been cured by heat or other means, is substantially infusible and cannot be softened and formed (NFPA 5000)

Answer 41

Thermoset Material

Question 42

A collection of lightweight structural components joined in a triangular configuration that can be used to support either floors or roofs.

Answer 42

Truss

Question 43

The type of construction in which the fire walls, strucural elements, walls, arches, floors, and roofs are of approved non-combustible or limited combustible materials that have a specified fire resistance

Answer 43

Type 1 construction

Question 44

The type of construction in which the fire walls, structural elements, walls, arches, floors and roofs are of approved non-combustible or limited combustible materials without fire resistance.

Answer 44

Type II construction

Question 45

The type of construction in which exterior walls and structural elements that are portions of exterior walls are of approved noncombustible or limited combustible materials and in which fire walls, interior structural elements, walls, arches, floors, and roofs are entirely or partially of wood of smaller dimensions than required for type IV construction or are of approved noncombustible, limited-combustible, or other approved combustible materials (NFPA 14)

Answer 45

Type III Construction

Question 46

The type of construction in which fire walls, exterior walls, and interior bearing walls and structural elements that are portions of such walls are of approved non-combustible or limited combustible materials. Other interior structural elements, arches, floors, and roofs are constructed of solid or laminated wood or cross-laminated timber without concealed spaces within allowable dimensions of the building code. (NFPA 14)

Answer 46

Type IV construction

Question 47

The construction in which structural elements, walls, arches, floors, and roofs are entirely or partially of wood or other approved material (NFPA 14).

Answer 47

Type V construction

Question 48

A glazing material with embedded wire mesh

Answer 48

Wired glass

Question 49

An assembly of small pieces of wood or wood and metal

Answer 49

Wood truss

Question 50

Load-bearing member assembled from individual wood components.

Answer 50

Wooden beam