Fire and Steel Construction Webinar 2015 quiz

Please answer the following 10 multiple choice questions, then click 'submit' to check the result. The pass mark for a CPD certificate is 8 out of 10, and you may retake the quiz as many times as you wish, but the questions will vary! Please note that one, two, three or all of the possible answers presented for each question may be right, and to gain a mark for that question all correct answers must be identified.

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Fire and steel construction

Which is the most common form of structural fire protection used in the UK?

Boards
Sprays
Thin film intumescent coatings
Flexible blankets

The maximum period of fire resistance required in Approved Document B to help meet the requirements of the Building Regulation is?

60 minutes
90 minutes
120 minutes
240 minutes

Which of the following describes the building at Cardington in which the major fire test programme was carried out between 1994 and 2003?

Non-composite steel frame with precast planks
Steel frame with Slimdek floors
Steel frame with composite steel deck floors
Post tensioned flat slab

A new British Standard, BS 9999, has been published to provide an alternative approach to the design of fire precautions in buildings to those in Government published documents. Which one of these best describes the fundamental principle behind its development?

Based on an understanding of the factors that create risk in fire
Based on conservative experience
Based on European approaches to the design of fire precautions in buildings
Based on an averaged approach from across the regions of the UK

Which one of the following statements is correct?

The standard fire test is a good representation of what happens in a real building fire.
A standard fire test on composite steel deck floors is a good indicator of how these floors will behave in real fires.
Continuous composite steel deck floors have much greater strength in fire than is indicated by the standard fire test on isolated elements.
The standard fire test is unsafe.

What is the meaning of time equivalent in fire engineering?

It is the severity of a fire in a compartment in terms of exposure to a standard fire test
It is the time in minutes at which the fire in a compartment will burn above 600°C
It is the period for which a fire will burn based on times measured in other, equivalent, compartments
It is the period of time which is required for the fire brigade to attend and extinguish a compartment fire.

How does an element of construction demonstrate that it can perform a fire resisting function if required?

Through trial and error in real building fires
Through a detailed theoretical study
Via a fire test carried out in accordance with a standard acceptable in the country in which that element is to be used
Via tests carried out in the manufacturer’s own furnaces

Which form of fire protection is most commonly used to fire protect structural steelwork for buildings off-site?

Boards
Sprays
Thin film intumescent coatings
Flexible blankets

Which of the following are commonly used to provide fire protection of structural beams and columns in the UK?

Boards
Sprays
Thin film intumescent coatings
Reinforced concrete between the flanges

What was given as the common maximum dry film thickness for thin film intumescent coatings that can be applied in one pass?

1200 microns
1500 microns
1800 microns
2000 microns