ADA
This act has no exceptions and protects those who are differently abled.
Use, height, and density
What are the categories of zoning?
IBC
What is the International Building Code?
Two voluntary standards linked to sustainability.
What is LEED and Energy Star?
What is the Hayward Fault?
27 inches in height from the ground
What is a cane detection zone?
The total floor area in a building divided by the property area.
What is Floor Area Ratio (FAR)
IRC
What is the International Residential Code?
Program that promotes resilient construction in communities where model codes have not caught up/are scanty.
What is FORTIFIED?
A pivotal fire for building design in Berkeley that led to less wood shingles.
What is the 1923 Berkeley Fire?
A building at UC Berkeley whose cane protection was legible to Chris from only one direction.
What is the Music Library?
The number of accessory dwelling units allowed in California at a state level.
What is 3?
Categories that determine how grave the danger a structure presents.
What is occupancy classifications?
A standard that includes efforts to assess happiness, equity, and beauty.
What is the Living Building Challenge (LBC)?
A private failure resolved by government.
What is a market externality?
The minimum diameter for wheelchair turning space.
What is 60 inches?
A type of controversial zoning outlawed in California
Single Family Zoning
The minimum number of hours per year architects are required to engage in continuing education for adherence to disability code.
What is 5 hours?
The first federal agency to push LEED certification for its new building?
32% of Americans live in this zone.
What is the WUI (Wildland Urban Interface)?
The idea that the state and its institutions are exempt from following/updating certain standards.
What is qualified immunity?
Buffering spaces located along property lines.
What are setbacks?
What are Wisconsin and Minnesota?
The process of comparing actual energy demand of a commercial building to others like it.
What is benchmarking?
The maximum number of hours Max Edwards family can survive in his fire shelter.
What is 3-4 hours?