CEA Final Exam |29 Accurate Q’s and
A’s
Aesthetics - -The quality of an object that deals with art, beauty, and taste.
- Building Codes - -Legal requirements designed to protect the public by
providing guidelines for structural electrical plumbing and mechanical areas
of a structure.
- Compressive Strength - -The maximum amount of force a material can
withstand without failure
- Contour Lines - -Show elevation
- Easement - -A limited right to make use of a property owned by another
- Egress - -Exits or a way out
- Ingress - -Entrance or a means to enter
- Pressure head - -The pressure of water at a given point in a pipe arising
from the pressure in it
- Prevailing Winds - -Direction from which the wind most frequently blows in
a given area of the country
- R-value - -The numerical value used to indicate the resistance to the flow
of heat
- Rebar - -Steel bar used to to reinforce concrete
- Setback - -Minimum distance that the zoning ordinance requires must be
maintained between a structure and property lines or between two
structures
- Solar Orientation - -Consideration of the solar orientation of a building
based on the relative position of the sun in order to purposely increase or
decrease the amount of light or heat transferred to the building
- Static head - -Pressure of a fluid due to the head of fluid above some
reference point/potential energy of water at rest
- Studs - -The vertical framing member in frame wall construction
A’s
Aesthetics - -The quality of an object that deals with art, beauty, and taste.
- Building Codes - -Legal requirements designed to protect the public by
providing guidelines for structural electrical plumbing and mechanical areas
of a structure.
- Compressive Strength - -The maximum amount of force a material can
withstand without failure
- Contour Lines - -Show elevation
- Easement - -A limited right to make use of a property owned by another
- Egress - -Exits or a way out
- Ingress - -Entrance or a means to enter
- Pressure head - -The pressure of water at a given point in a pipe arising
from the pressure in it
- Prevailing Winds - -Direction from which the wind most frequently blows in
a given area of the country
- R-value - -The numerical value used to indicate the resistance to the flow
of heat
- Rebar - -Steel bar used to to reinforce concrete
- Setback - -Minimum distance that the zoning ordinance requires must be
maintained between a structure and property lines or between two
structures
- Solar Orientation - -Consideration of the solar orientation of a building
based on the relative position of the sun in order to purposely increase or
decrease the amount of light or heat transferred to the building
- Static head - -Pressure of a fluid due to the head of fluid above some
reference point/potential energy of water at rest
- Studs - -The vertical framing member in frame wall construction
