Chapter 8 Heavy Timber And Mill Construction

Question 1

Cast iron box

Answer 1

An iron box built into a wall to receive the end of a girder.

Question 2

Chamfered column

Answer 2

A wooden heavy timber column that has been cut at an angle (beveled) on each of the corners to make it more difficult for fire to ignite the column at that location.

Question 3

Conflagration breeder

Answer 3

A structure that presents severe exposure problems that are capable of initiating a conflagration — a large, multiple building fire that is not easily contain.

Question 4

Corbelled

Answer 4

A series of projections, each one stepped progressively outward from the vertical face of the wall as it rises up to support a cornice or overhanging member above.

Question 5

Fire cut

Answer 5

The end of a joist cut at an angle to permit the joist fall out of the wall without acting like a lever and pushing the wall above it out of place.

Question 6

Heavy timber

Answer 6

Buildings constructed with non-combustible or limited combustible exterior walls and floors made of large dimension combustible materials. Also known as type IV construction.

Question 7

Mill

Answer 7

The earliest form of heavy timber construction; a type of factory that emerged during the industrial revolution.

Question 8

Scupper

Answer 8

An outlet in a wall of a building for drainage of water from a floor or a flat roof.

Question 9

Slow burning

Answer 9

A characteristic of a building that should allow a fire in that building to be brought under control before the building itself becomes involved.

Question 10

Type IV

Answer 10

Heavy timber construction.