ARE Live: Project Development & Documentation Exercise | ARE 5.0 PDD Exam

On today's ARE Live broadcast, Thursday, January 20, 2022 at noon CT, we’ll run through an exercise from one of our Virtual Workshops with Instructor Marissa Yee. She’ll review a few Project Development & Documentation practice questions focused on the integration and documentation of building systems, material selection, and material assemblies into a project. This is a great opportunity to see how hands-on and in-depth our Virtual Workshops are, so don’t miss it. Be sure to answer the exercise questions in advance so you can review your answers live with Marissa! www.surveymonk...

[@chaddaarud9990]

Question 4, to be able to use the exception for 0.2 a building must be equipped with an automatic sprinkler system and an emergency voice/alarm comm system. The description does not say anything about the voice/alarm system so I would think the exception could not be used. I could be wrong on this, but it confused me because this is the kind of trickery they use on the tests.

[@IsabellaRosetecampos]

Hi! Thank you so much for all these great videos. They really help a lot. I noticed that on QUESTION 5 the FIRE SEPARATION DISTANCE is not taken from an imaginary line in the middle of the 2 buildings. I learned by watching other videos that according to IBC section 2: the definition of fire separation distance in this case is from the building face to an imaginary line between two buildings on the lot. Therefore, If I am understanding correctly, the distance to determine the openings maximum area should be 7.5 ft. Let me know, I might be missing something and the code can always be open to interpretation but just wanted to share for clarification.

[@matthewbuyer5290]

Table 506.2 shows allowable area per floor? Not the whole building. It gets a little more complicated for buildings with 4 or more stories, but that table is still for floors I thought.

[@graceferris8465]

That's correct. This is a common misconception. Table 506.2 is allowable area per floor, not the whole building as she explained it.

[@0manhattan1]

For question #5, don't you need to divide 15' by two to get the invisible "interior lot line", then look at the table?

[@antonetteserafin2149]

For questions 3, how does wall type 1 have a 1/2hr rating? Isn't this describing a non-rated partition?

[@zanetawoods5480]

She answer to question 5 is incorrect. You have to divide 15’/2 to get the fire separation distance. You should take this video down.