BUILDING CODES

Question 1

What is occupancy group B?

Answer 1

Business: professional and service facilities as well as drinking and dining with fewer than 50 occupants. This is the safest space available because everybody is familiar with the surroundings … And awake.

Question 2

What is the safest occupancy group?

Answer 2

B for Business

Question 3

What is occupancy group F?

Answer 3

Factory: factories with moderate and low hazard materials share many of the requirements for group B

Question 4

What is occupancy group H?

Answer 4

Hazardous: facilities involving manufacture, process, generation, or storage of materials that constitute a health hazard. Explosive, combustible, corrosive, or toxic.

Question 5

What is occupancy group I?

Answer 5

Institutional: facilities where people are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Hospitals, nursing homes, sanitariums, jails, and reform schools.

Question 6

What is occupancy group M?

Answer 6

Mercantile: facilities for display and sale of merchandise, often share the same requirements as group B

Question 7

What is occupancy group R?

Answer 7

Residential

R-1 is hotels and transient
R-2 is permanent apartments and dorms
R-3 is single and double family homes

Question 8

What is possibly the least safe occupancy group?

Answer 8

Residential, because people are sleeping with no supervision. More people die in home fires every year than in any other occupancy.

Question 9

What is occupancy group S?

Answer 9

Storage: includes garages, aircraft hangers, and how he stops. People may work and these facilities.

Question 10

What is occupancy group U?

Answer 10

Utility: these facilities are not intended for human occupancy.

Question 11

What are the noncombustible building types?

Answer 11

Type I and type II

Question 12

What are the combustible building types?

Answer 12

Type III, type IV, and type V

Question 13

What is type IV? What fire rating is it automatically given?

Answer 13

Heavy timber construction, and it automatically has a one – hour fire rating

Question 14

How is flame spread rating determined?

Answer 14

The Steiner Tunnel Test

Question 15

What is the class a flame spread rating?

Answer 15

0-25

Question 16

What is the class B flame spread rating?

Answer 16

26-75

Question 17

What is the class C flame spread rating?

Answer 17

76-200

Question 18

Enclosed vertical exit Waze usually require materials with a flame spread in class…

Answer 18

A

Question 19

Corredor is usually require a flame spread in class…

Answer 19

B

Question 20

Rooms in assembly and institutional occupancies usually require a flame spread in class…

Answer 20

B

Question 21

Dwelling units (R-3) usually require a flame spread in class…

Answer 21

C

Question 22

Define means of egress

Answer 22

Continuous and unobstructed path of travel from any occupied portion of the facility to a public way

Question 23

The IBC and NFPA indicate that occupancy group B should have no more than one person per ___ square feet

Answer 23

100

Question 24

What is the occupant load factor for an architects office with 3000 ft.²?

Answer 24

30 occupants

Question 25

How many exits are required for occupancy loads from 501 to 1000?

Answer 25

Three

Question 26

Exit doors have to be between what two widths?

Answer 26

32" clear - 48" max.

Question 27

Any building with more than 1000 occupants requires how many exits?

Answer 27

Four

Question 28

Maximum egress travel distance

Answer 28

200 feet in buildings without a sprinkler, 250 feet in buildings with a sprinkler system (potentially 300 feet in business occupancies with the sprinklers, 300 feet in some factory, storage, and utility occupancies, 400 feet in some F, S, and U occupancies with sprinklers)

Question 29

You're not allowed to walk through which kinds of rooms in an exit path?

Answer 29

Kitchens, storage rooms, closets, bathrooms

Question 30

Maximum dead end distance

Answer 30

20 feet

Question 31

Fire rated corridors are usually required in occupancies without…

Answer 31

Sprinkler systems

Question 32

Fire rated corridors cannot exit through Any intervening rooms except…

Answer 32

Four years, lobbies, and reception rooms if they are constructed with the same fire resistance rating as the corridor

Question 33

If a vertical exit enclosure is serving more than four stories what is it's required fire rating? If it is serving less than four stories?

Answer 33

Two hour fire rating for four or more… One hour for less

Question 34

What are requirements for exterior exit stairways (allowed when a building is less than six stories or 75 feet in height)

Answer 34

Open on one side, separated from the building by fire rated construction matching that required for vertical exit enclosures

Question 35

What is the scope of the Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines?

Answer 35

Providing nondiscrimination in federally funded housing projects

Question 36

What is the scope of the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards?

Answer 36

Provides requirements for construction under for specific federal government agencies: USPS, DOD, GSA

Question 37

What are the only disability guidelines that apply to privately owned facilities?

Answer 37

ADAAG

Question 38

What is occupancy group A?

Answer 38

Assembly: where more than 50 people gather for a common purpose such as entertainment, food or drink... Potential for irrational panic so doors must swing in the direction of exit travel with panic hardware.