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1. Question
One of the key elements for increasing building longevity is______________.
- a. allowing for future flexibility of program, maintenance, and systems.
- b. only using moveable partitions walls
- c. utilizing cast in place concrete structural frames
- d. using the most expensive materials
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2. Question
The current life expectancy of a typical commercial building is ___________ years.
- a. 20 to 40
- b. 30 to 50
- c. 40 to 60
- d. 50 to 70
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3. Question
One area in building technologies currently making major advancements is ________________?
- a. creating longer lasting sealant joints
- b. utilizing less steel in buildings
- c. engineering systems to increase performance over time and not degrade
- d. the breakdown of building assemblies into replaceable components that are more easily replaced without major impact to the system
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4. Question
What is one of the major categories that impact building longevity?
- a. Climate/Geography
- b. Wind
- c. Soil Conditions
- d. Seismic conditions
- e. Element Control
- f. All of the above
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5. Question
What has been discovered in regard to stair towers in seismic areas is that the best way to create safer stairs is for them to be ____________________?
- a. more flexible and light
- b. more rigid and heavy
- c. stronger and increase rigidity
- d. tied directly to the building structure
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6. Question
The most recent shake test conducted by the same lab at UC San Diego in May of 2023 tested what type of structure?
- a. seven story light gauge steel structure
- b. five story concrete structure
- c. ten story mass timber structure
- d. eight story mass timber structure
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7. Question
When conducting these shake tests, the research is meant to _________________?
- a. incorporate underutilized materials
- b. test current solutions and seek out new points of unknown failure
- c. only test the solutions in place
- d. look at singular elements under stresses
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8. Question
Off-site modular fabrication can decrease time waste, design waste, and ____________?
- a. energy waste
- b. labor waste
- c. material waste
- d. project overruns
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9. Question
Establishing the goals for building longevity should be done __________________?
- a. early in construction
- b. early in design
- c. with the building owner at the earliest point in the design-construction process.
- d. at any point in the design and construction process
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