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So please, if you have any tips, please post in the comments and I will compile them for a post tomorrow evening (Wednesday). (I know that font below is hard to read... sorry!)
Base on last night's posts, I'm still finding room for improvement!
Also, this is a great post by Q-Practice:
Common Exam Mistakes
Thanks!
Carolyn
You've already given a lot of good tips, but another one I find helpful is using post-it notes when laying out rooms during the egress part. 1 post-it = 576 SF.
ReplyDeleteAnd a good rule of thumb that makes Life Safety easier... emergency lights and A/V all go in the same places EXCEPT in Assembly, which just gets A/V.
Love the post it idea! I'm a sucker for a good neon post-it.. But, a quick note on Life & Safety - any occupied room requires emergency lights **especially** Assembly. These are the lights that kick on in the event of a power outage/heavy smoke during a fire/emergency so that occupants can see to get out. You don't need them in private offices, copy/mail rooms, and small team rooms. So, in a training room/conf. room - do put emergency AND AV! Hope that helps!
DeleteSo, that's what I would think - who wants to be tripping over tables & chairs or desks while trying to get out? But in one of the practice exams I took, the "pass" solution didn't have one in the classroom, while the "fail" did and got called out for having an unnecessary emergency light. Which is where my rule of thumb came from.
DeleteAlthough I just looked at my other practice book, and the "pass" solution did have an emergency light in the training room with no mark-downs. Sigh...
It's frustrating, I know! Whenever I find discrepancies, I ask NCIDQ directly. I have found a lot of errors in solution samples that they don't mark down in one solution, but they do in another. But you definitely do - Assembly is the strict occupancy!
Deletehey there - very impressive blog you have here! i've been following from afar ;)
ReplyDeletethis is more a question...how are you measuring "centerline to centerline" in egress practicum?
1. for walls on public corridor - you measure to inside the tenant wall
2. for demising walls - you measure to centerline
3. for the exterior window walls...measure to inside the window?
while the ncidq tests already give some overall dimensions, their lines fall short of the exterior windows...which could mean extra sg.ft. in some spaces.
i keep coming up with .25/.5 ending numbers....but feel it shouldn't be that complicated?? any advice would be great!
Hi Lauren!
DeleteI (somehow) centered most of my walls on gridlines so I was able to measure gridline-to-gridline. BUT, if your walls don't fall so neatly, I just start my scale at the approximate center of the wall (exterior, demising, etc). HINT: These are averages and the test is designed to leave a tiny bit of wiggle room. I literally measured grid-line to grid-line throughout so I wasn't worrying about what the "actual" center of an exterior wall is. The SF you'll get are actually very close to those required (if you lay it out well)! See my post about Egress where I share the tip on determining the SF of 1 grid block to lay out your space. While this might not work out neatly, check your actual SF by multiplying the length and width of the space (CL to CL or GL to GL) and subtracting/adding any odd bump-outs. Hope this helps!
thank you! do you see what I mean about their grid lines falling just short of the windows? i guess overall it comes out ok. i just see these random details and become paralyzed and can't move on.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do! That's where I measured from when I determined my spaces. The shell area allows for this. But last night, I was reviewing Egress and I was like: Wait, is this right? It is!
Deleteok cool. thanks!
ReplyDeleteHey everyone - from lack of "shared tips" I will not be posting a collection. Not that it would help now!
ReplyDeleteGood luck!