NCIDQ Practicum Exam Questions and
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Net Area/Net Assignable Area - ✔✔The actual area required by a client to
accommodate specified functions. Includes interior walls and building
columns. DOES NOT include corridor circulation, closets, etc.
Efficiency Factor - ✔✔Also called "Circulation Area". It is the ratio of
enclosed spaces (offices) to open spaces (workstations).
Circulation Area= NSF/ Circulation Multiplier
Useable Area (USF) - ✔✔Also called the "occupant area" and excludes
building core and common space.
USF = NSF + Efficiency Factor
Rentable Area (RSF) - ✔✔RSF = GSF x Building Load Factor
Gross Area (GSF) - ✔✔GSF = NSF / Efficiency Factor
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,Occupancy Classification - ✔✔Is the formal designation of the primary
purpose of the building. There are 10 total:
1. Assembly
2. Business
3. Educational
4. Factory and industrial (not on exam)
5. High-hazard ( not on exam
6. Institutional
7. Mercantile
8. Residential
9. Storage
10. Utility and Miscellaneous (not on exam)
Assembly Group A-2 - ✔✔- food / drink consumption
- banquet halls
- casinos
- nightclubs
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,- restaurants
- cafeterias
- commercial kitchens in a restaurant
- bars
Assembly Group A-3 - ✔✔- amusement arcades
- art galleries
- bowling alleys
- community halls
- courtrooms
- dance halls
- exhibition halls
- funeral parlour's
- public greenhouses
- libraries
- places of worship
- transportation waiting areas
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, Business Group B - ✔✔- offices
- banks
- storage of records and accounts
- outpatient clinic
- professional and service transactions
*educational occupancies students above 12th grade
*food processing or a commercial kitchen NOT in a restaurant
*assembly occupant load less than 50 ppl and is accessory to another
occupancy.
*Space less than 750 sq ft and accessory to another occupancy.
Institutional Group I - ✔✔- hospital
- jail
Uses intended in which people are cared for or live in a supervised
environment, having physical limitations because of health or age are
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Net Area/Net Assignable Area - ✔✔The actual area required by a client to
accommodate specified functions. Includes interior walls and building
columns. DOES NOT include corridor circulation, closets, etc.
Efficiency Factor - ✔✔Also called "Circulation Area". It is the ratio of
enclosed spaces (offices) to open spaces (workstations).
Circulation Area= NSF/ Circulation Multiplier
Useable Area (USF) - ✔✔Also called the "occupant area" and excludes
building core and common space.
USF = NSF + Efficiency Factor
Rentable Area (RSF) - ✔✔RSF = GSF x Building Load Factor
Gross Area (GSF) - ✔✔GSF = NSF / Efficiency Factor
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,Occupancy Classification - ✔✔Is the formal designation of the primary
purpose of the building. There are 10 total:
1. Assembly
2. Business
3. Educational
4. Factory and industrial (not on exam)
5. High-hazard ( not on exam
6. Institutional
7. Mercantile
8. Residential
9. Storage
10. Utility and Miscellaneous (not on exam)
Assembly Group A-2 - ✔✔- food / drink consumption
- banquet halls
- casinos
- nightclubs
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,- restaurants
- cafeterias
- commercial kitchens in a restaurant
- bars
Assembly Group A-3 - ✔✔- amusement arcades
- art galleries
- bowling alleys
- community halls
- courtrooms
- dance halls
- exhibition halls
- funeral parlour's
- public greenhouses
- libraries
- places of worship
- transportation waiting areas
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, Business Group B - ✔✔- offices
- banks
- storage of records and accounts
- outpatient clinic
- professional and service transactions
*educational occupancies students above 12th grade
*food processing or a commercial kitchen NOT in a restaurant
*assembly occupant load less than 50 ppl and is accessory to another
occupancy.
*Space less than 750 sq ft and accessory to another occupancy.
Institutional Group I - ✔✔- hospital
- jail
Uses intended in which people are cared for or live in a supervised
environment, having physical limitations because of health or age are
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