AGRICULTURAL BUILDING - is a structure designed to house farm implements, hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other horticultural products. The structure shall not be a place of human habitation or a place of employment where agricultural products are processed, treated or packaged, nor shall it be a place used by the public.
ALLOWABLE STRESS DESIGN METHOD - is a method of proportioning structural elements such that computed stresses produced in the elements by the allowable stress load combinations do not exceed specified allowable stress (also called working stress design).
ASSEMBLY BUILDING - is a building or portion of a building for the gathering together of 50 or more persons for such purposes as deliberation, education, instruction, worship, entertainment, amusement, drinking or dining, or awaiting transportation.
AWNING - is a shelter supported entirely from the exterior wall of a building.
BALCONY, EXTERIOR, - is an exterior floor system projecting from a structure and supported by that structure, with no additional independent supports.
DEAD LOADS - consist of the weight of all materials and fixed equipment incorporated into the building or other structure.
DECK - is an exterior floor system supported on at least two opposing sides by an adjoining structure and/or posts, piers, or other independent supports.
ESSENTIAL FACILITIES - are buildings and other structures that are intended to remain operational in the event of extreme environmental loading from wind or earthquakes.
GARAGE - is a building or portion thereof in which motor vehicle containing flammable or combustible liquids or gas in its tank is stored, repaired or kept.
GARAGE, PRIVATE, - is a building or portion of a building, not more than 90 sq. m. in area, in which only motor vehicles used by the tenants of the building on the premises are kept or stored.
LIMIT STATE - is a condition in which a structure or component is judged either to be no longer useful for its intended function (serviceability limit state) or to be unsafe (strength limit state).
LIVE LOADS - are forces or other actions that result from the weight of all building materials, occupants, and their possessions, environmental effects, differential movements, and restrained dimensional changes. Permanent loads are those loads in which variations over time are rare or of small magnitude. All other loads are variable loads.
MARQUEE - is a permanent roofed structure attached to and supported by the building and projecting over public property.
OCCUPANCY - is the purpose for that a building, or part thereof, is used or intended to be used.
WALLS
BEARING WALL - is any wall meeting either of the following classifications:
1. Any metal or wood stud wall that supports more than 0.5 KN per linear meter of superimposed load.
2. Any masonry or concrete wall that supports more than 1.0 KN per linear meter superimposed loads, or any such wall supporting its own weight for more than one story.
EXTERIOR WALL - is any wall or element of a wall, or any member or group of members, that defines the exterior boundaries or courts of a building and that has a slope of 60 degrees or greater with the horizontal plane.
NONBEARING WALL - is any wall that is not a bearing wall
PARAPET WALL - is the part of any wall entirely above the roof line.
RETAINING WALL - is a wall designed to resist the later displacement of soil or other materials.
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