Twenty Questions

Week 1
Subject: The Start
and change of Building
Regulations
Twenty Questions

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1. What happened in 1666?

 The Great Fire of London.

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2. The Approved Document B was
created from what incident?

 Great Fire of London

3. What does DDA stand for?

 Disability Discrimination Act 1995

4.What happened at Ronan Point?

 Tower blocks collapsed from a gas

explosion.
5.What did the government do in
response to the Kyoto
Agreement?
 Revised Approved Document L to reduce
CO2 emissions
6. The Industrial Revolution
occurred in what century?

 19th century approximately 1850ish

7. What happened in 1965?

 The Building Regulations were nationalised.

8. Following the introduction of
the DDA which Approved
Document was revised
 Approved Document M – Means of Access
9.Following the Great Fire of
London name 2 Building
Regulations that were
introduced?
 It required all buildings to have some form of
fire resistance
 All houses to be built of brick or stone
10.Name 3 reasons why Public
Health Acts were introduced
from the Industrial Revolution?
 Sanitation
 Diseases
 Ventilation
 Damp
 Densely populated
11. Disproportionate Collapse
appears in an Approved
Document but which one?
 A3
12. What factors contributed to
the Great Fire of London?

 The construction of the buildings

 Storage of materials
 The proximity of buildings (planning)
 Heating
 Lighting
 Cooking
 Lack of fire prevention
13. What was wrong with the
quality of build at Ronan Point?

 Newspapers in cracks
 Precast walls were levelled by sitting on
bolts.
 Rainwater seeped into joints
 Weight of building on the bolts caused the
concrete wall panels to crack
14. What happened to the
Romans if a building fell down?

 The builder was executed

15. The current Building
Regulations apply to which
countries in the UK that we are
studying?
 England and Wales
 Scotland and N. Ireland have their own
version. Be very careful when you look up
local councils that they are not Scottish or
N. Irish
16. The king paid how many
surveyors to create new Building
Regulations?
 6 Surveyors in London
17. When were the first British
Building Regulations recorded

 1189 were when the first Building

Regulations were found
18. The Kyoto Protocol is about
which subject?

 The environment reducing CO2 emissions

19. What could the surveyors
now do after the Great Fire of
London which they couldn’t do
prior?
 Enforce the Building Regulations
20. How many main features
have affected the evolving
Building Regulations

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