BOMI THE DESIGN, OPERATION, AND
MAINTENANCE OF BUILDING
SYSTEMS, PART 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
& VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the most important contribution to the construction project? - Correct Answer
✔✔ Obtaining sufficient funding
A multidisciplinary project team whose members have complimentary skill sets, ample
experience, passion, and enthusiasm for their task, and _____________. - Correct
Answer ✔✔ A strong work ethic
What type of project focus's on the rehabilitation, modernization, or remodeling of the
buildings? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Renovation
What else is used to identify the space requirements for a construction project besides
the program requirements? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Needs assessment
What controls the use, height, and mass of a building for a given area? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Zoning Codes
What graphic illustrations are included in construction contract documents that illustrate
each component of the building? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Working drawings
What do predevelopment studies dedicated to analyzing the suitability of a site's soil
and other aspects of the site itself focus on? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Physical Feasibility
What helps facilitate consensus and an efficient approval process in the green approach
to program development? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Stakeholder participation
What is the primary contribution the owner makes to a construction project? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Financial recourses, including the ability to obtain funding in the form of
debt and equity for the project.
What are characteristics of an effective project team? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Recruit
people with complementary skill sets, ample experience, passion and enthusiasm for
the task, a strong work ethic, and the ability to assess and evaluate a process.
Describe the varieties of typical development and renovation projects. - Correct Answer
✔✔ Speculative development: Building being built without commitment from a user, with
a belief for its demand.
, Build-to-suit: Building built to meet specific needs of a committed user.
Renovation: Basic ingredients of construction, Rehabilitation, Modernization,
Remodeling.
Energy performance Contracting: Reduced operating expenses and energy costs for
the owner.
Alterations according to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): All new construction
must comply with the standards, removing barriers from the path of travel to that
primary function area.
What helps to identify space requirements? - Correct Answer ✔✔ The needs
assessment and the program of requirements are studies that help identify space
requirements.
What are two categories of building design codes, and how do they differ? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Zoning Codes: Control the use, height, density, and mass of a buildings.
Buildings Codes: Regulation that promote general safety regulating the design and
construction of the building components.
Describe the components commonly included in construction contract documents. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Working drawings (graphic illustrations of every component of the
building), conditions of the contract, and specifications (written descriptions of every
component of the building)
What project delivery method is best for allowing collaboration between the design team
and construction team to develop innovative techniques to build the project and is used
in approximately 50% of all commercial projects. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Design-build
What project delivery method is most appropriate for serving the size and diversity of a
large building complex with multifaced construction needs. Construction will need
several interrelated phases that each has its own construction manager and a project
administrator to manager. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Multiple prime contracts
What kind of contracts are owners leery of due to the requirement for a complete audit
and finished definitive engineering prior to the contract being negotiated, even though it
provides incentive for quickest completion. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Guaranteed Maximum
Price-Construction Management (GMP-CM)
What may an owner issue to assess a team's ability to preform and complete the
requirements of the project by requesting team experience, process knowledge, and
capability to bond the project. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Request for qualifications (RFQ)
What is the estimator not qualified to complete? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Accept proposals
from product suppliers.
What kind of project delay is a work disruption cause by the owner? - Correct Answer
✔✔ Disruptive change
MAINTENANCE OF BUILDING
SYSTEMS, PART 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
& VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the most important contribution to the construction project? - Correct Answer
✔✔ Obtaining sufficient funding
A multidisciplinary project team whose members have complimentary skill sets, ample
experience, passion, and enthusiasm for their task, and _____________. - Correct
Answer ✔✔ A strong work ethic
What type of project focus's on the rehabilitation, modernization, or remodeling of the
buildings? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Renovation
What else is used to identify the space requirements for a construction project besides
the program requirements? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Needs assessment
What controls the use, height, and mass of a building for a given area? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Zoning Codes
What graphic illustrations are included in construction contract documents that illustrate
each component of the building? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Working drawings
What do predevelopment studies dedicated to analyzing the suitability of a site's soil
and other aspects of the site itself focus on? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Physical Feasibility
What helps facilitate consensus and an efficient approval process in the green approach
to program development? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Stakeholder participation
What is the primary contribution the owner makes to a construction project? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Financial recourses, including the ability to obtain funding in the form of
debt and equity for the project.
What are characteristics of an effective project team? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Recruit
people with complementary skill sets, ample experience, passion and enthusiasm for
the task, a strong work ethic, and the ability to assess and evaluate a process.
Describe the varieties of typical development and renovation projects. - Correct Answer
✔✔ Speculative development: Building being built without commitment from a user, with
a belief for its demand.
, Build-to-suit: Building built to meet specific needs of a committed user.
Renovation: Basic ingredients of construction, Rehabilitation, Modernization,
Remodeling.
Energy performance Contracting: Reduced operating expenses and energy costs for
the owner.
Alterations according to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): All new construction
must comply with the standards, removing barriers from the path of travel to that
primary function area.
What helps to identify space requirements? - Correct Answer ✔✔ The needs
assessment and the program of requirements are studies that help identify space
requirements.
What are two categories of building design codes, and how do they differ? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Zoning Codes: Control the use, height, density, and mass of a buildings.
Buildings Codes: Regulation that promote general safety regulating the design and
construction of the building components.
Describe the components commonly included in construction contract documents. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Working drawings (graphic illustrations of every component of the
building), conditions of the contract, and specifications (written descriptions of every
component of the building)
What project delivery method is best for allowing collaboration between the design team
and construction team to develop innovative techniques to build the project and is used
in approximately 50% of all commercial projects. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Design-build
What project delivery method is most appropriate for serving the size and diversity of a
large building complex with multifaced construction needs. Construction will need
several interrelated phases that each has its own construction manager and a project
administrator to manager. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Multiple prime contracts
What kind of contracts are owners leery of due to the requirement for a complete audit
and finished definitive engineering prior to the contract being negotiated, even though it
provides incentive for quickest completion. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Guaranteed Maximum
Price-Construction Management (GMP-CM)
What may an owner issue to assess a team's ability to preform and complete the
requirements of the project by requesting team experience, process knowledge, and
capability to bond the project. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Request for qualifications (RFQ)
What is the estimator not qualified to complete? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Accept proposals
from product suppliers.
What kind of project delay is a work disruption cause by the owner? - Correct Answer
✔✔ Disruptive change
