HKIA Exam Paper 1 Quiz 53

Fixed automatically operated approved appliance. Any fire service equipment which is manufactured, used or designed to be used as an independent unit for the purpose of extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire, but automatic in operation and fixed in position, e.g. a sprayer unit in a Dangerous Goods store. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Portable hand-operated approved appliance. Any fire service equipment which is manufactured, used or designed to be used as an independent unit for the purpose of extinguishing, attacking, preventing or limiting a fire, e.g. water type, foam, inert gas, any chemical extinguishers, fire blankets and sand buckets. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Fire control center. A compartment situated at street level having direct access to open air and vehicular approach containing annunciator boards, controls, terminals, etc. of the fire protection and life safety systems within that building/complex. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Exit sign. A fixed illuminated sign indicating an approved exit route. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Pressurization of staircase. A system designed to protect staircases against the ingress of smoke by maintaining the air within staircases at pressures higher than those in adjacent parts of the building. The number of staircase(s) requiring pressurization shall be determined by the cubical extent of the basement, or building. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Pedestrian cross over facility. Cross passage designed to enable users inside a tube of a twin-tube tunnel to travel to another tube of the tunnel for escape purposes. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Audio/Visual Production Facilities. Premises used for audio/visual production such as film and television studios. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Basement Stories. Any stories of a building below the ground stories and from which all required exit routes are in an upward direction to the ground stories. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Anti-vacuum Valve. A valve in a water service that opens to admit air if the pressure within the water service falls below atmospheric pressure. (Handbook on Plumbing Installation for Buildings – 1.3 Commonly used waterworks liftings).

Butterfly Valve. A valve in which a disc is rotated about a diametric axis of a cylinder to vary the aperture. It is used where space is limited or more sophisticated control is required. (Handbook on Plumbing Installation for Buildings – 1.3 – Commonly used waterworks liftings).

The height of the ventilation outlet to free air should be 2.5m above footpath or street level. The hot air outlet stream should be directed away from personnel on the footpath nearby. (Code of practice 101 for distribution substation design version 14.0 – 6 Ventilation design).

Expansion Vessel. A closed vessel for accommodating the thermal expansion of water in a pressurized hot water heating system. (Handbook on Plumbing Installation for Buildings – 1.3 – Commonly used waterworks liftings).

Boiler. An enclosed vessel in which water is heated by the direct application of heat. (Handbook on Plumbing Installation for Buildings – 1.3 – Commonly used waterworks liftings).

Temperature Relief Valve. A self-acting valve that automatically opens to prevent a predetermined safe temperature being exceeded. (Handbook on Plumbing Installation for Buildings – 1.3 – Commonly used waterworks liftings).

Pressure Relief Valve. A self-acting valve that automatically opens to prevent a predetermined safe pressure being exceeded. (Handbook on Plumbing Installation for Buildings – 1.3 – Commonly used waterworks liftings).

BS stands for British standards in the Handbook on plumbing installation for building. (Handbook on Plumbing Installation for Buildings – 1.2 – Abbreviations).

Chiller, means an air conditioning equipment that includes evaporator, compressor, condenser, and regulator controls, which serves to supply chilled water. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Constant air volume (CAV) air distribution system, means a system that controls the dry-bulb temperature within a space by varying the temperature of supply air that is maintained at constant volume flow to the space. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Direct digital control (DDC) means a type of control where controlled and monitored data, in analog or binary form, is converted to digital format for manipulations and calculations by a micro-processer and then converted back to analog or binary form to control physical devices. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Driving controller, means the power electronics mechanism to control the output performance including speed, rotation, torque etc. of the controlling motor. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Industrial truck loaded freight lift. A lift which will be loaded and unloaded by industrial truck, and the loading is not necessarily evenly distributed over the floor, and the weight of any single piece of freight and its truck can exceed a quarter of the rated load of the lift. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Freight lift means a lift mainly intended for the transport of goods, which are generally accompanied by persons handling the goods. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Meter means a measuring instrument to measure, register or indicate the value of voltage, current, power factor, electrical consumption or demand, water flow, energy input/output etc. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Modeling assumptions in the context of the performance-based approach means the conditions such as weather conditions, thermostat settings and schedules, internal heat gain, operating schedules that are used for calculating a building’s annual energy consumption. (Code of practice for efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and Abbreviations).

Energy utilization index, in relation to the total energy consumption of the central building services installations in a building, means dividing total energy consumption for a specific period by the total internal floor area of the building. (Code for practice for building energy audit 2012 – 2 Interpretation).

Mechanical drive, means the mechanism of a set of speed reduction gears transferring the power from the motor shaft to the drive sheave in a traction drive lift system or to the chain or drum drive for the pallets or steps in an escalator or conveyor system. (Code of practice for energy efficiency of building services installation 2018 2 – 2 Interpretations and abbreviation).

Protected lobby. A lobby with self-closing doors fitted with panic bolt leading to the adjacent communal area of the building shall be provided. (Code of practice 101 for distribution substation design version 14.0).

The vertical distance between the floor level of substation and the floor level of lifting plant shall not be greater than 4.5m. (Code of practice 101 for distribution substation design version 14.0).

Godown. A warehouse or any building used wholly or in part for the storage of goods or raw material of any kind. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Bounding condition, means the set of fire safety provisions that must be maintained as a result of a performance-based approach to the fire safety design and that if altered will invalidate the performance-based fire safety design. (Code of practice for fire safety in buildings 2011 – Section 3 Definitions).