See fire safety handout for more information.

1. Assume that you are designing an elementary school with a total floor area of 30,000 square feet, sited on a 5-acre plot with at least 60 feet of separation on all 4 sides of the building.

Check whether the school can be built as a 2-story unprotected wood-frame structure:

• What is the occupancy group? ________

• What is the construction type?________

• Are sprinklers required?_________

• What is the tabular allowable floor area, including consideration of the 2-story height, but excluding consideration of frontage and sprinklers?____________

• What is the allowable floor area, A_a = A_t + A_t I_s / 100 + A_t I_f / 100

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• Can school be built as proposed?___________

• Can school be built as proposed, except as a 3-story structure?__________

• Can school be built as proposed without sprinklers?__________

• Can school be built as a 1-story structure without sprinklers using Type V-A construction? Show calculations for allowable floor area:

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• If the school is built of Type II-A construction, what are the fire-resistive requirements in hours -- the "fire rating" -- for the following:
  • structural frame____________

  • floor-ceiling assembly____________

• If the school is built as a 3-story sprinklered building on an urban site with separation (frontage) on the street facade only, what construction types are possible?

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• If the school is built as a 3-story building on an urban site with separation on the street facade only, what construction types are possible without sprinklers?
  

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