MT1 MSYS 2380 Flashcards
Key Components of Envelope using Architectural Language
- Roof
- Walls
- Floors
- Doors
- Glazing (windows)
Identify Considerations in the use of typical construction materials
- Wood
- Masonry concrete
A1
- Assembly for production and viewing of performance arts
- Movie theatre
- Concert halls
A2
- Assemblies not elsewhere classified in Group A
- Classrooms
- Infant daycare facility
- The number of persons in the suite does not exceed 30
A3
- Assembly occupancies of the arena type
- An arena-type building intended for occasional use for trade shows and similar exhibition purposes
- Rogers arena
- Bowling alleys
- Libraries
A4
- Assembly occupancies where occupants gather in the open air
- Swimming pools
- Tennis courts
- Skating rinks
B1
- Detention
- Jail
- Asylum
B2
- Treatment
- Hospital
- Dental
B3
- Care
- Group homes
- Detox
- Longterm care
C
- Residential
- Homes
- Apartments
D
- Business and Personal services
- Lawyer office
- Bank
E
- Mercantile
- Building where retails goods, wares, or merchandise are displayed and/or sold
- IKEA
- Best Buy
- Supermarkets
F1
- High-hazard industrial occupancies
- Spray painting operations
- Chemical manufacturing
- Feed mills
F2
- Medium-hazard industrial occupancies
- Warehouse
- Laboratories
- Storage rooms
F3
- Low-hazard industrial occupancies
- Open air parking garages
- Sample display rooms
- High school science lab with fume hoods
Part 3
- Commercial, institutional, large residential
Part 9
- Low-rise residential, very small commercial
All buildings must comply with sections
- 1, 7, 8, 10
In addition, Part 3 buildings must comply with sections?
- 3, 4, 5, 6
In addition, Part 9 buildings must comply with sections?
9
A building is considered a part 3 building if:
- It is a ‘Post-disaster building’
- Anything that needs to continue to operate after disaster.
- firehall
- hospital
- sewage plants
- water works
- Anything that needs to continue to operate after disaster.
- Has a building area exceeding 600 m^2 (6458 ft^2)
- Building height exceeding 3 stories
- Classified as one of the following occupancies
- C, D, F2, F3
3 types of construction material as it relates to fire safety?
- Combustile vs Non-Combustile vs EMTC
- Encapsulated, Mass, Timber, Construction
- Wood vs Concrete or steel vs EMTC
The material that your building is permitted to be constructed of is based upon?
- Occupancy
- Area
- Sprinkered (Yes or no)
- Height
A building is considered a high building if:
- It is a group A, D, E, or F occupancy that is
- more than 36m (118ft) measured between grade and the floor of the top storey
- It is a group B occupancy in which the floor level of the highest storey of the major occupancy is 18m (59ft) above grade
- It contains a Group B2 or B3 occupancy above the third storey
- It contains a Group C occupancy located more than 18m (59ft) above grade.
- It is of EMTC construction and the highest storey is more than 18m (59ft) above grade
Major source of building failures?
65% of litigation against architects
Location for mechanical equipment?
- Heat Pump
- Exhaust fan
- Rooftop Unit (RTU)
- Air handling unit
- Air cooled chiller
- Plumbing Vents
- Roof drains
Low slope
-Water resisting
Defined with a slope < 3:12
- Easy for maintenance/access for equipment
- Maximized space volume
Steep slope
-Water shedding
Defined with a slope > = 3:12
- Requires gutters
- Extensive fall protection required
Fall Protection
-Typical for equipment within 6.5 feet of edge of a low-slope roof
-Required on steep roofs that are accessed
Low slope ‘Roofs’
-Minimum of 2 roof drains
-Scuppers provided at the edges of the roof for overflow
-DO NOT USE OVERFLOW ROOF DRAINS.
Steep ‘Roofs’
- Drainage
- Gutters and downspouts
- Sized according to BCPC
- Eaves/overhangs
- any greater than (> 4ft) must be sprinklered
- Materials
- Shingles
- Sheet metal
Three basic structural materials
-Wood
-Steel
-Concrete
Types of wood in construction
- Lumber
- Directly from logs (sawing/cutting–2x4s)
- Manufactured wood
- Transformed wood fibres(plywood,
glulams, CLTs)
- Transformed wood fibres(plywood,
Why wood?
-Renewable material/low embodied carbon and energy inputs to produce
-Insulation/poor conductor
-Readily available in BC
Hardwoods
-Beech
-Oak
-Ash
Softwoods
-Pine
-Spruce
-Cedar
Moisture Content
- Free water
- Moves between cells
- Bound water
- Trapped within the cells
- (Weight of water/ weight of dry wood) x 100
- FSP
- Fibre saturation point (FSP) ~ 30%
- any < 19% is dry lumber
- any (> or = ) 20% is green lumber
Air Seasoning
-Natural drying
-Months
Kiln seasoning
-Four to five days
-Kills fungi
Balanced Glulams
Used for continuous/cantilever (overhang)
Unbalanced glulams
Lower quality (lower tensile strength on the lower portion)
Wood paneling
-Used for floor sheathing, roof sheathing, wall sheathing
Types:
- Veneered - plywood
- Non - veneered - OSB
Plywood
Typically 4x8 sheets 1/4” - 1” thick
OSB
-Oriented strand board
-Composed of shredded wafer thin wood strands – compressed and glued.
-Cannot be sanded, painted, or stained
Type R Gypsum board
Standard 1/2”
Type X Gypsum board
5/8” on either side of a wood member
MMR
Mold and Moisture Resistance
- Good for washrooms/shower areas
Group B occupancy
Which the floor level of the highest storey of the major occupancy is 18m (59ft) above grade
Group C occupancy
Located more than 18m (59ft) above grade.
