Book - Site Planning & Design Handbook

Question 1

What is the Building for Economic and Environmental Sustainability (BEES) model?

Answer 1

Developed by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), this approach evaluates the life cycle costs and environmental impacts of building materials in 10 areas of concern.

Question 2

What is ASTM?

Answer 2

The American Society for Testing and Materials.

Also developed an approach for evaluating the life cycle costs of building materials (Standard Guide for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Building Materials/Products, E 1991–98). This is a broad-based approach that includes consideration of embodied energy, raw materials acquisition, and environmental impacts.

Question 3

What are some typical effects on Operating Costs brought by Green Desingn?

Answer 3

• Electric savings 45-55% (payback period of 7-9 years, more common less than 2 years)
• As much as 90% water usee reduction (50% more common)
  
  • Lifecycle savings of 10x typical ($100,000 upfront investment in green building = 1 mil life cycle savings)

Question 4

What is the minimum slope for grassy swales and drainage ways? Why?

Answer 4

1% to prevent standing water and muddy conditions

Question 5

What is the maximum slope for walkways?

Answer 5

5% (2% cross-slope) anything steeper becomes a ramp or stair.

Question 6

What is the correct slope for parking areas or large entrance plazas?

Answer 6

Minimum 1% to maximum 5%

Question 7

Paved areas adjacent to buildings should have what slope?

Answer 7

at least 2% away from the structure

Question 8

If planted areas are adjacent to a building, how should they be sloped?

Answer 8

The first 10 feet should be sloped away from the structure to assure that there’s no standing water next to the basement/foundation walls.

Question 9

When can you build in the 100-year flood plain?

Answer 9

Almost never! Unless approved by AHJ. Even then, the mechanical & electrical rooms must be 5’ above the level of the 100-year flood plain.

Question 10

What are the slope numbers for turfed areas?

Answer 10

• Minimum 1% slope (2% desireable)
• Steeper than 2:1 not acceptable
• Steep slopes require plants or constructed to control erosion

Question 11

What structural system should be chosen if you want a simple floor and roof framing to be fabricated on-site?

Answer 11

• Sitecast concrete
• Light Gague Steel
• Masonry with concrete slab and wood floor framing

Question 12

What structural system should you choose if you would like to avoid beams and joists in the floor and roof of an irregular column grid, what structural system should you choose?

Answer 12

Sitecast concrete or metal space frame

Question 13

What structural system for an exposed fire-resistant structure?

Answer 13

All concrete structure or Heavy Timber

Question 14

What structural system for the thinnest floor system?

Answer 14

Prestressed Concrete Slabs

or

Sitecast Concrete (2-way flat plate)

or

Posttensioned (1-way) slab

Question 15

What structural system for a long span? Given limited space for colums

Answer 15

any of:

• Heavy Wood Trusses
• Glulam Beams
• Steel Frame/Trusses
• Open Web Joists
• Concrete Waffle Slab
• Concrete T

Question 16

What structure for a short-span system that can be modified easily?

Answer 16

• Light Gauge Steel
• Wood Framing
• Sitecast Concrete
• Precast Concrete

Question 17

What structural systems are on-site construction with easy to handle materials?

Answer 17

• Sitecast Concrete
• Light Gauge Steel Framing
• Wood Platform Framing
• Masonry

Question 18

What are the different types of A Assembly?

Answer 18

A1 - Theaters (dark with fixed seating)

A2 - Eating & Drinking establishments (light with fixed seating)

A3 - Galleries, churches, lecture halls, museums, libraries (no fixed seating)

A4 - indoor sports facilities with fixed seating

A5 - outdoor sports arenas

Question 19

What grades are included in type E occupancy?

Answer 19

K-12 (not university)

Question 20

What are the two different F-Factory Occupancies?

Answer 20

F1 - Moderate Hazard

F2 - Low Hazard

Question 21

What are the different types of H-Hazard Occupancy?

Answer 21

H1 - explosive or chemically unstable

H2 - accelerants or flammable gasses

H3 - physical hazard or combustible (fireworks or oxidizing chemicals)

H4 - not fire hazard, but toxic

H5 - hazardous production materials

Question 22

What are the different types of I-Institutional Occupancy?

Answer 22

I1 - 17+ 24-hour occupants that are capable of responding to emergency (assisted living, rehab)

I2 - 24-hour occupants not capable of responding (hospital)

I3 - 6+ occupants under restraint (prisons)

I4 - nonmedical daycare facilities of 6+ occupants

Question 23

What are the different types of R-Residential Occupancy?

Answer 23

R1 - Nonpermanent Occupants (hotels)

R2 - Permanent Occupants (apartment buildings)

R3 - One and Two family residences, care facilities with less than 5 occupants, frats with less than 16 residents, and anything that don’t fit other R and I type classifications.

R4 - Residential care with 6-16 occupants capable of self preservation

Question 24

What are the non-combustible construction types?

Answer 24

I-A (3-hour)

I-B (2-hour)

II-A (1-hour)

II-B (unprotected)

Question 25

What are the combustible construction types?

Answer 25

III-A (1-hour)

III-B (unprotected

IV (heavy timber)

V-A (1-hour wood light frame)

V-B (unprotected wood light frame)

Question 26

What is NPDES?

Answer 26

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

Question 27

What is a SWPPP?

Answer 27

Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan