Fascia

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Gable

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• Def: A law that specifies in detail how land within a municipality be used.
• For Example: Zoning Ordinances govern the types of activities that may take place on a given piece of land, how much of the land may be covered by buildings, how far buildings must be set back from adjacent property lines, number of parking spaces, the total amount of floor area, and how tall the buildings may be. They also include fire protection requirements, neighborhood enterprise districts or the revitalization of existing buildings (Page 8).

• Def: The predominant U.S. model building codes. The IBC’s purpose in establishing occupancy groups is to distinguish various degrees of need for safety in buildings.
• Example: Building codes in our textbooks are all based on the IBC. The IBC begins by defining occupancy groups as follows:
• Groups A-1 through A-5 are public assembly. (theaters, auditoriums, lecture halls, nightclubs, etc.)
• Group B is Business occupancies: (banks, administrative office, higher education, banks.)
• Group E is Educational occupancies: (schools for grades K-12 and daycare)
• Group F-1 and F-2 are Industrial Processes using non-combustible materials.
• Group H-1 through H-5 include various types of High Hazard occupancies
• Groups I-1 through I-4 are Institutional occupancies
• Group M is Mercantile, (stores, markets, service stations and salesrooms
• Groups R-1 through R-4 are Residential Occupancies
• Groups S-1 and S-2 are storage buildings
• Group U is Utility buildings, (agricultural buildings, greenhouses, carports, sheds, stables)

• Def: A fire resistance rating is the time, in hours or fractions of an hour, that a material or assembly will resist fire exposure as determined by ASTM.
• Some strategies to increase your Fire Resistance rating include:
• Fireblocking (a material partition used to restrict the spread of fire), fire doors, Fire partitions, Fireproofing materials, Fire protective glazing for glass, using a fire resistant material, or increasing density of material (Heavy timber construction).

• Def: A set of regulations set up by local governments intended to protect public health and safety by setting minimum standards for construction quality, structural integrity, durability, livability, and fire saftey in buildings. (pg.8-9)

• in the International Building Code, any of five major systems of building construction that are differentiated by their relative resistance to fire.
• Type I: made with highly fire-resistant, non-combustible materials.
• Type II-IV: levels of fire-resistance falling between the extremes of Type I & V. (Type IV is somewhat of an anomaly, Heavy Timber Construction)
• Type V: built from combustible wood framing; least fire resistant.

• Coarse-grained soils include gravel and sand.
• Fine-grained soils include silt and clay. These have small ‘soil pores,’ so they do not allow water through as easily as a coarse-grained soil such as sand or gravel would.

Crawlspace

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Drilled pier

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 Settlement

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Uniform Settlment: settlement occurs at the same rate across all portions of the building; every building settles to some degree. When all parts of a building rest on the same kind of soil, and the loads on the building and the design of its structural system are uniform throughout

differential settlement: where soils, loads, or struc- tural systems differ between parts of a building, different parts of the build- ing structure may settle by substantially different amounts, the frame of the building may become distorted, floors may slope, walls and glass may crack, and doors and windows may not work properly. Most foundation failures are attributable to excessive differential settlement.

Cohensionless or frictional Soils

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Test boring

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Slurry wall: (p. 40)

Definition