Egress
This is required to be at least 36 inches wide.
What is a hallway?
A self contained device that provides smoke detection and emits a loud sound.
What is a smoke alarm?
Subject to a 1 percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year.
What is a 100 year floodplain?
Typically sand, crushed rock, clean gravel, or a mix of granular materials.
What is structural fill?
The proper and successful transfer of building loads to the foundation.
What is the load path to the foundation?
The path of travel from any location in a dwelling to the exterior.
What is the Means of Egress?
The code stipulates that this is provided by the building wiring system,
and these are used for backup.
What are primary power and batteries for smoke alarms?
Measured from the building face to the closest interior lot line.
What is fire separation distance?
28 days
Code required minimum duration for concrete to reach 2,500 PSI strength.
L/360
What is allowable deflection?
Must be able to be opened without a key or special knowledge.
What is an exit door?
In each sleeping room.
Outside each sleeping area.
On each additional story of a dwelling.
What are the locations for installing smoke alarms.
This shall fall a minimum of 6 inches within the first 10 feet.
What is surface drainage away from a building.
This protects foundations from the expansive effects of freezing and thawing soil.
Placing footings below the frost depth.
The distance for which a joist is selected.
What is an allowable joist span?
Can be a maximum of 7 3/4" below the top of a threshold.
What is a landing?
The code requires this to be installed in townhouses.
What is an automatic fire sprinkler system?
The agency that manages the National Flood Insurance Program.
What is FEMA? Federal Emergency Management Agency.
2,500 PSI
The minimum compressive strength of concrete used for footings.
Supported at one end and allowed to span at the other end.
What is a cantilever?
A minimum of 10 inches and a maximum of 7 3/4 inches.
What is a stair tread and a stair riser?
Three methods that provide occupants time to safely exit a building in the event of fire.
What are smoke alarms, fire sprinkler systems, and fire resistant materials?
1,500 PSF
What is the lowest allowable load bearing pressure on soils?
This resists lateral and uplift forces acting on the framing system of a building.
What is foundation anchorage?
No longer than one-third of the depth of the joist, and shall not be located in the middle one-third of the span.
What are notches?