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INTERSTITIAL SPACE [3 records]

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Record 1 2000-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
  • Construction Methods
CONT

The survey should be performed on a floor-by-floor and room-by-room basis, including all interstitial spaces such as service shafts and bulkheads, and areas above suspended ceilings. The surveyor must examine all of the potentially friable asbestos materials and applications, such as floor finishes, ceiling tiles and asbestos-reinforced cement products.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
  • Procédés de construction
CONT

Le relevé devrait se dérouler étage par étage, pièce par pièce, y compris dans tous les espaces intercalaires tels que les gaines techniques et les édicules ainsi que les espacements au-dessus des plafonds suspendus, s'attarder à tous les matériaux pouvant être constitués d'amiante friable et aux applications telles que les finis de sol, les plaques de plafond et les produits de ciment renforcés à l'amiante.

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Elements
  • Construction Standards and Regulations
DEF

Areas between walls and partitions, between ceilings and floors, and in roofs through which fire may spread undetected.

CONT

[The] firewall [in buildings of noncombustible construction] shall terminate at the underside of a solid roof slab or deck with a smoketight joint, and there shall be no concealed spaces within the roof slab in that portion directly above the firewall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments du bâtiment
  • Réglementation et normalisation (Construction)
DEF

(...) espace existant dans les parois des bâtiments (murs, cloisons, planchers, plafonds) accessibles seulement à certains emplacements.

CONT

On entend par vide de construction, tout espace, tel que faux-plafond, vide de lambourdes, caissons, hourdis creux, alvéoles de certains types de cloisons accessibles à certains emplacements et utilisables pour le libre passage des canalisations électriques.

OBS

Malgré ce que dit la source ROBER 1985 (vol. 9, p. 728), ne pas confondre avec le terme "vide d'air" (en anglais "air space").

OBS

Bien qu'entérinés par des codes du bâtiment, les équivalents "vide dissimulé" et "espace caché" sont impropres et constituent des calques du terme anglais.

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Cytology
CONT

Diffusion of fluids through the capillary walls and through intertitial spaces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Cytologie

Spanish

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