Reduce the brightness of the environment

Use medium tones of color on the alls, floors and equipment with extra light over tasks

1/4" per foot

1/8" per foot in pipes larger then 3"

allow built up sewage gases to excape instead of bubble through the water in traps

allow pressure in the system to equalize so discharging waste does not create a siphon that would drain all of the water out of the traps

What must be modified to achieve accoustic separation of perimeter offices?

What is this term?

convector

a unit or device that radiates heat from water to the surounding air, usually though closely spaced fins. Convectotors are usually placed against a wall under a window.

What is the NRC of:

vinyl tile on concrete

wood strip flooring

carpet; 1/2" pile on concrete

gyp. brd.

1" fiberglass wall panel w/ fabric cover

plywood paneling

5/8" suspended acoustic tile

1" suspended acoustic tile

vinyl tile on concrete: .o5

wood strip flooring: .10

carpet; 1/2" pile on concrete: .50

gyp. brd.: .o5

1" fiberglass wall panel w/ fabric cover: .80

plywood paneling: .15

5/8" suspended acoustic tile: .60

used for seamless flooring and is a mastic

two part epoxy

two part polyurethane

polychoroprene (meoprene

two part polyester

acyrlic and mastic seamless flooring

asphalt emusion

portland cement

Light reflective value

Ceiling LRV is 70.

The warp lines in a woven carpet determine

law of reflection

Footlamberts

a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle.

an electric are is passes through high-pressure mercury vapor which causes the lamp to produce both ultraviolet light and visible light that is blue-green.

Generally limited to outdoor lighting and industrial applications

similar to mercury but halides of metal are added to the arc tube. This increases the efficacy and improves color rendition but decreases lamp life.

Best of the HID lamps

produce light by passing an electric arc through hot sodium vapor

Produce a salmon color light

the relationship of flame resistant to fire retardent is the same as

A) glass to cotten

b) wool to modacrylic

c) the terms are both chemically applied

d) the terms mean the same

larger fibers

tighter yarm twists

hight density

What type of drapery would you install in a sunny window?

a. printed cotten

b. printed linen

c. acetate brocade

d. rayon brocade

which room would be most appropriate for a work environment?

a. painted blue with no windows

b. painted ellow 

c. painted white with windows

d. painted green with windows

When designing a computer workstation, which of the following factors in LEAST important?

a. keyboard height

b. vdt angle

c. screen glare

d. work-surface depth

c. screen glare

Option C is least important because glare on the screen in a function of the lighting design more than the workstation design. All of the other optionsrelate to ites that could be controlled with the workstation design alone.

Proxemics might assist a designer in

a. deciding on the size of a doctor's examination room

b. determining where to located the office of the president within an office suite

c. planning the size and shape of a conference table

d. making decisions about the type and spacing of seating in an audiovisual presentation room

D. making decisions about the type and spacing of seating in an audiovisual presentation room

Proxemics is the application of knowledge about personal space needs to actual space planning. Determining the design of seating where people will be close to each other is the most likely situation of the four options where proxemics would be used

A client complains that her office is too hot. the interior designer could most easily improve the situation by suggesting an accessory that affects?

a. convection

b. ventilation

c. evaporation

d. conduction

C. evaporation

Because the question mentions an accessory and ease of use, a simple table fan would be the most logical suggestion to make. Creating are movement would increase evaporation from a person's skin, there by cooling it.

In addition to being decorative tapestries in Gotheic and Renaissance castles

a. reduced the amount of sound reflection within a room

b. minimized drafts

c. increased the mean radiant temperature

d. reduced heat loss by increasing the insulating value of the walls

C. increased the mean readiant temperature

Tapestries seved all four purposes listed, but the primary advantage was to decrease heat loss through radiation by covering the cold stone walls with an insulating material. This, in effect, raised the mean radiant temerature. 

A library is being designed to occupy only one portion of a building and a complete set of drawings is available for the building. What information would be the most important to obtain from the field survey?

a. the locations of structural elements

b. existing natural light sources

c. sources of noise within the building

dl the locations and capacities of electrical power

c. sources of noise within the building

it is very likely that information concerning the other three questions would be available from a good, complete set of construction drawings. Afield survey would be most necessary to determine what sources of noice exist and their magnitude

for an interior designer conducting a programming interview with a client for a small clothing boutique, which is the least important question to ask?

a which items are most frequently puchases on impules

b. will rest rooms be available to the customers

c. what amount of merchandise will be on display?

d. what ish the relationship between the cash/wrap counter and the dressing rooms?

B. will rest rooms be available to the customers

Options A, C and D relate directly to decisions about the locations or sizes of elements in the store. If restooms were provided at all they would be positioned away from the sales area whether or not they were available for customer use.

Which of the following sources would be the LEAST useful for obtaining currrent information on a manufacturer's building product?

a. internet

b. product rep

c. Sweet's Catalog

d. trade association

D. Trade association

Tade associations would be the least likely to have current info on a specific manufacturer's product. A manufacturer's wesite and a manufacturer's rep would have the most current information, followed by the manufacturer's catalog found in Sweet's Catalog. 

To begin perliminary space planning, the interior designer would most likely need which of the following two building code requirements first?

a. occupancy group and total floor area

b. number of exits and maximum distance to exits

c. allowable lenth of dead-end cooidors and glaxing req.

d. occupant load and corridor construction req.

b. number of exits and distance of exits

Although there are many building code req. that the designer needs to start planning, of the optjions given, the number of exits and the maximum distance to exits would be critical for perliminary space layout. 

The complexity of the human-environment interface makes it difficult to base a design theory only on

a. environmental design research

b. functionality

c. history precedent

d. perception theories

a. environmental design research

Because environmental design reaserch typically only focuses on one variable at a time, it is often difficult to drawto draw valid conclusions that may apply to any design situation

A rational approach to design that emphasizes human-environment interaction would most likely be based on

a. environmental design research

b. functional requirements

c. Gestalt psychology

d. social influences

Verify that the adjacencies require physical connection, then review the problem with the client.

This lest the client clarigy the programming adjacencies and if necessary modify them so the designer can proceed with good information. If the client does want to see some sketches to prove that the required adjacencies cannot be made to work, these are already available from the initial work on the problem.

Which  of the following would provide the most cost-effective space-defining construction element?

a. raised platform

b gyp. brd. walls

c. oversized doors

d. a glazed wall

b gyp. brd. walls

 Option a is incorrect because, while the change in elevation would help define a space, the vertical perimeter of the raised platform would still need something to set the perimeter of the space. In addition, the platform and ccompanying steps and ramp would not be as cost-effective as a gym bord partition. Option c is incorrect because doors provide transitions through partitions and do not define space. Option D is incorrect because transparency would minimize the space defining element and a flazed wall would be more expensive the simple gy. brd. 

A deisgn cocept statement for a public gathering are around a fireplace is a ski lodge would probable not include?

a. size of the fire place

b. number of individual seating groups

c. ypes of finish materials

d. method of lighting the space

a. size of the fire place

the fire place is the most detailed aspect of the options and would probably least affect the overall design and feeling of the space

Adjacency requirements for the physical movement of goods in a manufacturing plant would be best illustrated with?

A adjacency matrix

b. bubble diagram

c. flow chart

d stacking diagram

C. flow chart

in a manufacturing plant, goods travel from one station to another during the process of fabrication. A flw diagram would show boththe adjacencies and well as the steps in the process of namufacturer. A bbble diagram would show the adjacencies but not the specific sequence of manufactuere. An adjacency matris and stacking diagram would not adequtely illustrate the relationships. 

for a restaurant in an old building undergoing remodeling, what would have the most infulence over the planning of the dinning area?

a. existing structural columns and walls

b. dimensions of the building

c. locations of existing plumbing

d. decorative millwork and existing ornate lighting fixtures

d. dimensions of the building

a base plan shows the layout of the existing building and is always neccessary before beginning an interior design space plan

In determining required space for a hospital nurses's station, which is the most important factor?

a. patient files and number of patient contacts

b. work surface and storage

c. movable carts and space for writting reports

d. electrical reuirments and comunication equipment.

b. work surface and storage

a nurse workstation reuires much record keeping and temorary and long term storage of a variety of items. Option B includes provisions for most of the elements that require a loarge amount of space, including patent files and movable carts. Option D is incorrect because communication equipment and electrical outlets alone do not contribute significantly to the space required for the nurses station.

The LEAST important consideration in planning exit corridors is

a. making sure dead ends do not exceed 20'

b. providing at least two exits from rooms where the are required

c. maintaing a minimum width as required by the occupancy type

d. having the corridors empty into approved exitways or stairways

B. providing at least two exits from rooms where the are required

this in an bovious option because the question relates to corridors, while option B is the only one the describes exiting a room

the most effective design strategy a designer can use to maximize daylighting involves

a. changing the type of glazing

b. increasing the head height of glazing

c. installing a light shelf

d. specifying a high-reflective paint

D. spefifying a high relective paint

Of the design strategies listed, the interior designer can typically only infulence the surface finishes and relectance of rooms. the other options are usually part of the building's architecture.

Orthographic drawings are unreal views of bojects primarily because

a. more that one is reuired to describe an object

b. the point of view is directly in front of every location on the object

c. transparent plane has to be imagined

d. some planes my be foreshortened

B. the point of view is directly in front of every location on the object

orthographic drawings assume teh impossible situation that the viewer's eye is perpendicular to every point on an object at the same time, when in fact the viewer sees an object in persepctive from only one point of view, even when standing directly in front of it.

What does SP in a perspective mean

the most accurate representation of materials is

a. computer renderings

b. full-size mockups

c. presentation models

d. study models

a. full-size mockups

a full-size mockup of an actual material would be the best way to represent the material

Welt Cording (most)

Buttoning (2nd most)

Wyzenbeck and fading

channeling

Because channeling is a method of attaching the fabric to a chusion and direct attachment is the best way to avoid slippage

A good selection for lighting to enhance the appearance of a rough, plastered wall would be?

a. fluorescent cove uplighting

b. decorating chandeliers near the wall

c. track lighting near the center of the room, aimed at the wall

d. recessed incandescents close to the wall

D.recessed incandescents close to the wall

To accentuate the rough wall, you would want grazing light. Among the choices listed, point sources close to the wall such as recessed incandescents would do the job best. The other types of lighting would tend to flatten the surface.

Parsons table primarily uses which of the following types of design elements?

To create the most vivid and easily perceived color-coding system in an elderly housing facility, the interior designer should use which of the following combinations?

a. bright color against a background of noncomplementrary color

b. complementary colors of hight saturation

c. either highly staurated warm or cool colrs next to a neutral gray

d. the primary colors and white

complementary colors of high saturation

because highly saurated, complementary colors reinforce each other, the second combination would create the highest contrast and be the easiest to see for people of all ages

Which design elements could be used to lower the apparent height of a ceiling

a. dark, hightly textured ceiling

b. strong horizontal lines on the wall

c. fine-grained patterns on the ceiling and dark walls

d. light ceiling and textured walls

a. dark, highly textured ceiling

dark values tend to make surfaces "close in" as do heavy textures. The two in combination would lower the apparent ceiling height

harmony

Because the different table tops are related to each other by a common characteristic (the identical bases).

mortise lock

Safety glazing is NOT required in which of the following locations?

a. sidelites where the sill is greater the 18" AFF

b. glass sidelites next to a solid wood door

c. shower doors

d. full-height glass panels more than 12" from a door

to detail a doorframe for a conference room where privacy is critical, which of the following is least likely to be required?

a. an automatic door bottom

d. heavy duty, silent door closer

c. neoprene gasketing

d. a dolid core door

B. a heavy-duty silent door closer

the noise created by a door closer might be objectionable for the short time the door was closing, but it would have effect on privacy once the door was closed.

Which of the following would be the LEAST desirable choice for a carpet installation for hotel rooms that have conrete subfloors?

a. nylon carpet stretched in over a foam cushion

b. polyester carpet stretched in over a felt cushion

c. acrylic carpet direct-glued

d. wool carpet direct-glue

D. wool carpet direct-glued