questions week 1- history

8/8/2019 Questions Week 1- History

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Twenty QuestionsWeek 1

Subject: The Startand change of BuildingRegulations


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Twenty Questions

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1. What happened in 1666?

The Great Fire of London.


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2 .2 . The Approved Document B wascreated from what incident?

Great Fire of London


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3 . What does DDA stand for?

Disability Discrimination Act 1995


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4 .What happened at Ronan Point?

Tower blocks collapsed from a gas

explosion.


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5 .What did the government do inresponse to the KyotoAgreement?

Revised Approved Document L to reduce

CO2 emissions


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6. The Industrial Revolutionoccurred in what century?

19 th century approximately 1850 ish


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7 . What happened in 196 5 ?

The Building Regulations were nationalised.


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8 . Following the introduction ofthe DDA which ApprovedDocument was revised

Approved Document M Means of Access


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9.Following the Great Fire ofLondon name 2 BuildingRegulations that wereintroduced?

It required all buildings to have some form of fire resistance

All houses to be built of brick or stone


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10.Name 3 reasons why PublicHealth Acts were introducedfrom the Industrial Revolution?

S anitation

DiseasesVentilationDamp

Densely populated


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11. Disproportionate Collapseappears in an ApprovedDocument but which one?

A3


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12 . What factors contributed tothe Great Fire of London?

The construction of the buildings

Storage of materialsThe proximity of buildings (planning)Heating

LightingCookingLack of fire prevention


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13 . What was wrong with thequality of build at Ronan Point?

N ewspapers in cracks

Precast walls were levelled by sitting onbolts.Rainwater seeped into jointsW eight of building on the bolts caused theconcrete wall panels to crack


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14 . What happened to theRomans if a building fell down?

The builder was executed


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15 . The current B uildingRegulations apply to whichcountries in the UK that we arestudying?

England and WalesScotland and N . Ireland have their ownversion. Be very careful when you look uplocal councils that they are not Scottish orN . Irish


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16. The king paid how manysurveyors to create new BuildingRegulations?

6 Surveyors in London


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17 . When were the first BritishBuilding Regulations recorded

1189 were when the first Building

Regulations were found


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18 . The Kyoto Protocol is aboutwhich subject?

The environment reducing CO 2 emissions


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19. What could the surveyorsnow do after the Great Fire ofLondon which they couldnt doprior?

Enforce the Building Regulations


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2 0. How many main featureshave affected the evolvingBuilding Regulations

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