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    This document provides specifications for drawing a technical building drawing of a shopping arcade. It includes details on the: 1. Roof construction using a hipped design with corrugated iron sheets and timber framing. 2. Brick wall construction for both external and internal walls. 3. Door and window sizes and types. 4. Concrete floor and foundation specifications. The questions require drawing a freehand pictorial sketch of the building and a scaled cross-section on planes M-M and S-S showing all construction details.

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    This document provides specifications for drawing a technical building drawing of a shopping arcade. It includes details on the: 1. Roof construction using a hipped design with corrugated iron sheets and timber framing. 2. Brick wall construction for both external and internal walls. 3. Door and window sizes and types. 4. Concrete floor and foundation specifications. The questions require drawing a freehand pictorial sketch of the building and a scaled cross-section on planes M-M and S-S showing all construction details.

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    This document provides specifications for drawing a technical building drawing of a shopping arcade. It includes details on the: 1. Roof construction using a hipped design with corrugated iron sheets and timber framing. 2. Brick wall construction for both external and internal walls. 3. Door and window sizes and types. 4. Concrete floor and foundation specifications. The questions require drawing a freehand pictorial sketch of the building and a scaled cross-section on planes M-M and S-S showing all construction details.

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    Building Practice

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    Abraham Orem
    This document provides specifications for drawing a technical building drawing of a shopping arcade. It includes details on the: 1. Roof construction using a hipped design with corrugated iron sheets and timber framing. 2. Brick wall construction for both external and internal walls. 3. Door and window sizes and types. 4. Concrete floor and foundation specifications. The questions require drawing a freehand pictorial sketch of the building and a scaled cross-section on planes M-M and S-S showing all construction details.

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    P720/2

    TECHNICAL DRAWING

    BUILDING DRAWING

    Paper 2

    August 2014

    3 hours

    END OF TERM TWO EXAMINATIONS

    TECHNICAL DRAWING

    BUILDING DRAWING

    Paper 2

    SENIOR FIVE

    3 Hours

    INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

    This paper consists of two questions.

    Answer all questions.

    A sheet of drawing paper size A2 is provided. Use both sides of the paper if necessary.

    Where dimensions are not given suitable dimensions are to be chosen.

    Accuracy and good draughtsman ship are essential.


    Figure 1 shows the ground floor plan of a shopping arcade not drawn to scale.

    SPECIFICATIONS:

    ROOF: Hipped roof covered with galvanized


    corrugated iron sheets pitched at 30o on
    purlins 50x50 on Rafters& struts
    125mm x 50mm on Tie beams 150mm x
    50mm, on 100x75 wall plate.
    Trusses placed 2230mm center to
    center.
    Fascia boards/ verge boards are 200mm
    x 25mm.

    WALLS: External and internal are one brick wall


    thick in Flemish bond.

    DOORS: D3- 2400mm x 2100mm. casement


    double leaf.D1- 2100mmx900mm steel
    casement door, D2-2100x 900 panel
    doors.

    WINDOWS: W1- 1500mm x 1200mm casement


    metallic.

    FLOOR: Concrete floor with 20mm cement/ sand


    screed laid over 100mm thick over-site
    floor concrete and 150mm thick
    hardcore.

    FOUNDATION: Concrete strip foundation 675mm wide


    by 230mm thick at a depth of 1300mm
    below the ground level.
    1. Draw a free hand pictorial sketch of the building with corner T at the fore
    ground. (Use of instruments will be penalized).

    2. To a scale of 1:50, draw the vertical sections on cutting planes M-M and S-S
    showing all the necessary constructional details.(name all parts)

    END
    Fig 1

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