DBC Q1

Floor area within the inside perimeter of the exterior walls of a building. The measurement excludes shafts and courtyards, but includes corridors, stairways, ramps, closets, base of atria (or similar voids) and the thickness of interior walls, columns or other features.

• Gross Area

• Built-up Area

• Floor Area

• Gross Floor Area

At DBC GFA is calculated based on Table A.3.

answer as per included and excluded in GFA calc.

Groups:

(a) include

,

(b) exclude

• Corridors

• Elevator shafts at other floors

• Gym with gross area ≤50% of roof area

• Terraces

• Mechanical ducts

• Elevator machine rooms

• Lobbies

• Refuse chutes

• Balconies

• Shafts

• Elevator shaft at elevator recall floor

• Habitable and occupiable spaces including

  sanitary facilities

• Parking lobbies

• Stairs

• Waste rooms

• Mezzanine floors

The coordinate system used by the Authority is Dubai Local Transverse Mercator(DLTM). The reference

point for levelling is Port Rashid.

• True

• False

Two or more parking bays with one of the spaces placed behind the other is ​

• Tandem Parking
• Preferred Parking
• Standard Parking
• POD Parking

Match the following

• RTA

• liquefied petroleum gas

• LPG

• traffic impact study

• TIS

• traffic impact assessment

• DCR

• Development Control Regulations

• TIA

• Roads and Transport Authority

according to this figure, click on the key number that defines the plot limit

The maximum allowable height for a building with G+11 floors limit is

(a)  

Which parts of building and installation are permitted to exceed the required heights?

• Ornamental elements , such as minarets, domes, and towers

• Chimneys and smoke stacks

• elevator shafts and staircases

• All of them

Gate/Reference Level: It is the level of the finished floor of the ground floor at the plot edge.

• True

• False

Nouran is a bit confused about which authority she shall conform to its standards and approvals, If helipads are provided on buildings.

• DCCA

• RTA

• ASCE

• IACAD