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Appendix B: Glossary of Terms
Pages 65-68

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... CANYON. Vertical service bays designed to house communications, electrical, and mechanical service distribution equipment in ~ readily accessible way; a type of accessible service area.
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... INTERST1IIAL SPACE. A type of accessible service area, typically space provided between the structural floor panel and a hung interior ceiling; a key element of VAHBS (VA Hospital Building System)
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... PREDESIGN ANALYSIS. The system of analysis involved in developing conceptual design alternatives and working out a variety of design details before the actual detailed design begins.
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... SERVICE LIFE. The period of time over which a building, component, or subsystem actually provides adequate performance; a technical parameter that depends on design, construction quality, operations and maintenance practices, use, environmental factors, and users' and owners' expectations; not the same as economic life or design service life.
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Key Terms

  • accessible service
  • constructed facility
  • raised access
  • electrical components
  • structural floor

  • distribution equipment
  • design service
  • functional subsystems
  • economic life
  • typically precedes

  • check functional
  • readily accessible
  • typically depends
  • actual detailed
  • integrated building

  • typically space
  • initial users
  • independent mechanical
  • assumed value
  • substantial renovation

  • related costs
  • provide performance
  • tax regulations
  • interior ceiling
  • facilitate maintenance

  • regarding satisfactory
  • user occupancy
  • building owner
  • initial user
  • detailed design


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