Design
Complete this phrase: "Stay On ..."
What is, "Stay on Module"
This is our internal shared spreadsheet where we enter Basis of Design information and track features of products for coordination with the Specifications Team.
What is the PML or Project Materials List.
You will typically find this type of drawing in the 200 series of a CD Set.
What are Overall (Building) Elevations and Sections
MEP stands for this:
What is Mechanical Electrical Plumbing
This much clear space is required on the latch side of a door when Pulling open on a frontward approach.
What is 18"
Who's responsibility is the code compliance of a building?
Who is The Architect
Who reviews your weekly timesheets?
Who is your project manager!
It was in this city that SOM began.
What is Chicago?
The first names of the three founding partners in order are:
What are Louis, Nathaniel, and John.
This annual presentation series within SOM showcases the latest design work from each office.
What is the Winter Design Forum?
This internal series of reviews by technical staff outside your project ensures quality by providing comments and typically occurs before or after a milestone submission.
What is QMS or Quality Management System
You would find Doors in this CSI Masterformat Spec Section Division.
What is Division 8: Openings
This type of model allows structural engineers to precisely design connections between teel members, and was traditionally completed by steel fabrication contractors before SOM added it to their services.
What are TEKLA models.
These are examples of Low Voltage engineering Disciplines that we regularly work with.
What are Telecom, Audio / Visual, Security, Controls
This is the maximum slope of an accessible ramp or surface requiring handrails, expressed as a ratio of 1 to ___ (1/x).
What is 1 to 12 slope
Where would you go to confirm the project's scope of work and deliverables per phase?
What is The Contract
This project commission led to the formation of SOM.
what is the 1939 New York World Fair
This was SOM's first high visibility International Style project, which was the first glass-walled International office building in the US, and served as prototype for many subsequent corporate headquarters.
What is the Lever House
This example of a "Pleat" cladding identity was completed by one of our West Coast Government & Civic studios in 2016.
What is the LA Federal Courthouse
What are the two primary styles for holding glass in a typical exterior mullion?
What are SSG (structural silicone glazed) and captured mullions. In SSG the silicone adhesive holds the glass in the mullion. In the latter, the glass is mechanically fastened to the mullion with the capture plate.
Typical door details are most commonly called out from this type of sheet.
What is the Door Schedule
Of taller structures or shorter structures, it is this one that has a higher G-force on inhabitants when swaying.
What are shorter structures.
The acronym FACP stand for this.
What is a Fire Alarm Control Panel?
To find the required clear width of a corridor, divide the occupant load by this value. (This is in a sprinklered building.)
What is 0.2 (0.3 if unsprinklered)
This is the maximum height a stair can rise before requiring an intermediate landing.
What is 12'
This type of insurance protects the firm against "errors & omissions" in our deliverables
What is Professional Liability Insurance
It was this structural system that used the building's exterior frame for support pioneered by Falzur Khan that enable skyscrapers to reach new heights, such as the John Hancock Center and the Willis (Sears) Tower.
What is a Tube Structural System
This was the first major project for the Washington DC Office
The Master Plan for the National Mall and Constitution Gardens
This architect design 10 Bond St, an example of the terracotta "Frame" cladding identity.
Who are Selldorf Architects?
The two methods or categories for designing and constructing a curtain wall system
What are stick-built and unitized curtain walls.
This type of floor plan drawing is used to clarify and coordinate edges, pits, ramps, and utility penetrations in concrete. Sometimes there is debate as to whether or not they should be issued or even drawn only for internal use, due the potential for conflicting info with Structural. But they are beneficial on complex projects where the details of a concrete floor may not be clear in the architectural plans.
What are Slab Plans
This is one common sub-series in a Mechanical Engineer's drawing set.
Mechanical Piping (MP)
Mechanical Ductwork (MH)
Mechanical Control (MC)
Mechanical Demolition (MD)
What is the clear floor space required for a wheelchair? Length and width.
What is 36"x48"?
(depending on jurisdiction, new or existing) (36X48 per new A117.1-2019)
What is the name for a proposal written by your project manager to ask the owner to approve work outside of base services / scope
What is an Additional Service Request?
This renowned and famously blunt SOM architect won the Pritzker Prize in 1988 for his design contributions to the International Style.
Gordon Bunshaft
This building designed by SOM was the first tower on the WTC site reconstructed after 9/11
What is 7 World Trade Center
This phrase of Peter Glasson's on the way to carry a building wide aesthetic through different parts of the project begins with, "Make the rules..."
What is, "Make the rules, then (where valuable, bend, or) break them."
This is the standard applied to the spread of fire on exterior wall assemblies containing combustible components.
What is NFPA 285
When a fabricator has to provide engineering calculations to confirm their design meets project's design criteria.
What is delegated design?
This removable cap is found in plumbing systems and is used for maintenance of the plumbing system.
What is a Clean Out
This is the accessibility standard code used on many Federal buildings.
What is the Architectural Barriers Act?
What do you say to a Client who has asked for something out of scope in a meeting?
What is 'Let us take a look at that internally and get back to you'?
This Partner served on Washington DC's Commission of Fine Arts board.
David Childs (2002-2005)
Gordon Bunshaft (1963-1972)
This associate partner's contributions to SOM's key work was famously under-recognized while she practiced in the 1960's and 70's, from which her advocacy and resilience shed light on the unequal standards of the time.
Who was Natalie Griffin de Blois
This is the standard commonly referred to for the exterior high-performance coating.
What is AAMA 2605. It is the American Architectural Manufacturers Association
standard for exterior coatings which have a 20 year warranty for color fastness/exposed to UV and extreme weather.
This key architectural part of interior environments are most impacted by the coordination of consultant systems commonly using clash detection software.
What are ceilings.
This code is sometimes preferred by State and Local AHJs over the IBC on matters of Life Safety.
What is NFPA 101
Who determines our professional liability insurance limitation amounts?
Who are the owner, project manager, partner and legal in collaboration
This renowned SOM Partner said "The technical man must not be lost in his own technology. He must be able to appreciate life; and life is art, drama, music, and most importantly, people".
Who was Fazlur Kahn
It was for this independent federal agency and corporation that David Childs was poached by Nathaniel Owings.
What is The Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation