HKIA Exam Paper 5 Quiz 39

Water supply. A supply acceptable to the Water Authority and the Director of Fire Services. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Water mist system. A system connected to a water supply or water and atomizing media supplies and equipped with nozzles capable of delivering water mist to control, suppress, or extinguish fires. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Water spray system. A system designed for extinguishing or controlling fires involving flammable liquids by emulsification, cooling and smothering. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Street fire hydrant system. A system of water mains and fire hydrants supplied by a government water main, or a static water supply with pumping facilities. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Ring main system with a fixed pump. A fixed system of piping fitted with hydrant outlets with/without hose reels at fixed intervals and permanently primed pump set for imparting pressure and flow to the water. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Static smoke extraction system. A smoke extraction system utilizing smoke reservoirs; localized ducting; and permanent openings and/or automatic opening of windows, panels or external louvres actuated by smoke detectors; to remove, on the principles of natural ventilation, smoke and products of combustion from a designated fire compartment. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Sprinkler system. A system designed to discharge water under pressure from sprinkler heads detecting devices at or near the point of origin of the fire and to sound an alarm. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Supply tank. A water tank containing a specified quantity of water reserved solely for firefighting. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Carport. A covered parking area open for its entire length or width on at least two sides. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Garage. A covered parking area enclosed by walls, with or without windows, on more than two sides. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Composite Building. Any building which is constructed or intended to be used for a combination of any two or more of the following: Domestic, Commercial, Institutional, Hotel. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Commercial Building. A building, or that part of the building, constructed or intended to be used for business, trade or entertainment. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Curtain Walled Building. A building which has a non-load bearing wall primarily fixed in front of the structural frame with its own dead weight and wind loads transferred to the structural frame through anchorages. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Domestic Building. A building constructed or intended to be used for habitation. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Hotel, any building used wholly or in part primarily for the purposes of accommodation on a commercial basis. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Low Rise Building. Any building of which the floor of the uppermost story does not exceed 30 m above the point of staircase discharge at ground floor level. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Institutional Building. Any building used wholly or in part for the purposes of Government, community facilities, including those directly related to or in support of the work of the government, organizations providing social services to meet community needs. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Industrial Building. Any building used wholly or in part in any process for or incidental to any of the following purposes, namely adapting for sale of any article being a building in which work is carried out by way of trade or for purposes of gain. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

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).

Passenger Terminals. Any building and/or place used wholly or in part for the purposes of embarking/disembarking passengers to/from any mode of transport. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Mechanical Plant Room. A room accommodating mechanical plants such as air handling unit (AHU), fan, air conditioning, chiller, compressor, water pump, fire pump. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

400 mm. The access ways to the machine rooms and the entrances themselves shall be at least 2 m high provided that door sills and edges with a height not exceeding 400 mm are permitted. (Code of practice for building works for lifts and escalators 2011 – 3.12 Machine and pulley room access).

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).

Domestic purpose. A purpose connected solely with the occupation of a dwelling-house and does not include a purpose connected with a garden, lawn, playground or swimming pool appurtenant to a dwelling-house. (Waterworks Ordinance Cap 102 Part I – 2 Interpretation).

Protected exit, means a required staircase, or ramp, or passageway, being enclosed by fire barriers, that leads to an ultimate place of safety. (Code of practice for fire safety in buildings 2011 – Section 3 Definitions).

Building services installation, an air-conditioning installation, an electrical installation, lift and escalator installation and a lighting installation. (Code of practice for energy efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and abbreviations).

Zone models describe a fluid flow within a discrete zone or room; they split the zone in question in distinct control volumes where calculations are performed. (Guidelines on Design and Construction Requirements for Energy Efficiency of Residential Buildings 2014 – 1.4 Terminology and definitions).

Dead band means the range of values within which an input variable can be varied without initiating any noticeable change in the output variable. (Code of practice for energy efficiency of building services installation 2018 – 2 Interpretations and abbreviations).

Emergency generator. An independently powered electrical generator of sufficient electrical capacity to meet the fire service installations and fireman‘s lifts it is required to provide. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).

Emergency generator. An independently powered electrical generator of sufficient electrical capacity to meet the fire service installations and fireman‘s lifts it is required to provide. (Code of practice for minimum fire service installations and equipment 2012 – 2.2 Definitions).