Description Flashcards
Mid rise buildings will typically have long what with apartments or offices on both or one side
Hallways
This building is 3 to 6 stories in height but has less than 75 feet from the lowest level of the fire department vehicle access to the floor of the highest occupied story?
Mid-rise
The lowest floor of a mid rise building may contain what?
Commercial or retail space
Hydraulic elevator rooms
Occupied apartments
Storage areas
Utility room
Laundry facilities
Parking facilities
Trash rooms
Residential mid rise buildings constructed in the 1950s have what kind of construction?
Ordinary methods of Masonary walls with dimensional wood floors and roof
Modern residential mid rise buildings are typically of what type of construction?
Lightweight wood construction
Mid rise commercial buildings are usually of what type of construction?
Non-combustible
Mixed use building with commercial occupancies and residential occupancies typically have what type of construction?
Mixed construction
Some mid rise buildings are constructed in this type of configuration. The building in circles a swimming pool courtyard often with parking below?
Donut configuration
So mid rise buildings have commercial, office, and retail space with no residential occupancies. This type of midrise building has what type of layout?
Center hallway or Center core
Mid rise buildings are limited to how many feet on the address side of the building?
75’
During size up company officers should note what?
Number of floors accessible from the front and the rear of the structure
Mid rise buildings with long hallways usually have what?
Fire doors
Many mid rise buildings have a combination of several types of construction and be treated according to what construction method?
The lowest fire rating
