Building Utilities - Plumbing

The unit of kinematics viscosity in metric system

• Poise

• Sq. cm. per sec

• Sq. m per sec

• None of the above

1 psi is equivalent to a water head of ?

• 2.31 psi

• 3.52 psi

• 2.50 psi

• 3.96 psi

Used to deliver water at a point higher than the position of the pump itself when the plunger descends, the valve is closed and the water in the cylinder is forced out through the valve and up to the storage.

• Pumps

• Force pump

• Lift pump

• Suction pump

Bacteria which has no function in sewage treatment

• Non-aerobic bacteria

• Pathogenic bacteria

• Facultative bacteria

• Aerobic bacteria

It is temperature at which vapor forms above liquid fuel

• Power point

• Fire point

• Flash point

• Boiling point

The water service is a pipe that extends from the?

• Water rise run out to the water tank

• Water main to the water tank

• Water main to the water meter

• Water main to the building

Which of the ff carries waste discharge to the building sewer?

• Soil stack

• Indirect connection

• Building drain

• Waste stack

Subsoil water is collected and carried to a

• Sanitary sewer

• Storm sewer

• Sump

• River

Which of the ff is not a plumbing fixture

• Gravity tank

• Roof drain

• Booster pump

• Floor drain

The code that prescribed regulation on sanitary and industrial plumbing installation inside bldgs and premises is the

• PD 1096

• PD 1185

• RA 1378

• RA 1529