At our next ARE Live broadcast on February 25, 2021, we will run through an exercise from one of our Virtual Workshops with Mark Bailey. He’ll go through PDD’s “Selecting Rated Assemblies Based on Building Type, Site & Life Safety” exercise. This is a great opportunity to see how hands-on and in-…

Do we have access to IBC in exam? I did not think we did. Are we only showing IBC for demonstrating where the source information comes from?

Typically, yes, but this is an example of making sure we read the question thoroughly. Type IIB is defined as ‘unprotected’ which speaks to the protection on the materials themselves and/or a sprinkler system. The materials themselves may not have additional coatings or protections on them which wou…

Hi @christine Our virtual workshops are every Sunday. You can view the amount of time it takes to complete the videos by logging into your dashboard and the time displays under each product for the division. It’s going to be different for each division and the time will depend on how fast you watch…

Hi Christine, on the exam you will not have access to the entire IBC. In this example you’ve been given portions of the IBC relevant to answering the question. You will not be required to memorize specific data points from various tables in the IBC to answer a question like this without given resour…

In regards to Question 5, For Wall A, Since there is not a tag at the stairwell should we assume that Wall A would be the same rating as Wall C?

Thats a relief! I thought we were required to memorize much of this.

Fortunately not (thank goodness)! You should be familiar with construction types and know some accessibility clearances, but don’t worry about knowing the values from specific tables, like table 1020.1 or occupancy tables.

Hey Allison, that’s a good question. My gut would say no; it should be assume that is the same type as wall D. I say this because stairwells have specific fire wall requirements, and I would match the existing wall type that’s noted on that specific stairwell, not necessarily the other stairwell, wh…

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