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Check Your Progress Assignment: The Elevation of This Site Is 150 Feet

An elevation represents the side view of a building plan. This document discusses building elevations and provides instructions to identify features like footings, foundations, wall heights and roof overhangs from elevations. It includes assignment questions to analyze elevations of a two-unit apartment, such as identifying the north elevation, wall dimensions, floor and foundation details, and footing depths.

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Check Your Progress Assignment: The Elevation of This Site Is 150 Feet

An elevation represents the side view of a building plan. This document discusses building elevations and provides instructions to identify features like footings, foundations, wall heights and roof overhangs from elevations. It includes assignment questions to analyze elevations of a two-unit apartment, such as identifying the north elevation, wall dimensions, floor and foundation details, and footing depths.

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6'8'

Figure 76. The elevation of this site is 150 feet.

Figure 77. Dimensions on an elevation.

CHECK YOUR PROGRESS


Can you perform these tasks?
Explain which side of a plan view is represented by a
building elevation.
Identify footings and foundations on building elevations.
Find the height of a foundation wall on the building
elevations.
Find the dimension from the floor to the top of a wall on
building elevations.
Find the amount of roof overhang shown on building
elevations.
Describe the appearance of a building from information given on the building elevations.

ASSIGNMENT
Refer to the drawings of the Two-Unit Apartment in the
packet to complete this assignment.
1. Which elevation is the north elevation?
2. In what compass direction does the left end of the
Apartment face?
3. What is the dimension from the surface of the floor to
the top of the wall framing?
4. What is the thickness of the floor?
5. How far does the foundation project above the ground?
6. How far below the surface of the ground does the
foundation wall extend?
7. What is the total height of the foundation walls?
8. What is the minimum depth of the bottom of the footings?

44 Unit 7

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