CONSOLIDATED TIPS FOR THE BOARD EXAMS

I already deleted the previous entry of the same topic. Here is the new update of consolidated tips from the 3 people I interviewed regarding the Jan2006 exams:

1. Third day… design
2 elevs and 2 sections required.
Parang may leakage sa JPT. 3 out of 5 design days nila… office building ang pinagawa. So we should check kung ano yung binigay sa JPT.

2. Building tech
Check product brochures
Parts of Spanish tile roof
Parts of acoustic ceiling system
Different types of nails
Different wood mouldings like ovulo, quarter round, half round

3. Tropical design
Read the book of Manahan
Analytical problems… like which is a more efficient design

4. Urban design / planning
Concentric, sector theory
Erness Burgess
New plans and projects of the government

5. Building laws
IRR
Percentage of open spaces

6. Prof Prac
Relation of owner-contractor / architect-contractor
Items in the contract
Number of days so and so

7. History
Know the architects / other data of the following buildings:
Einstein Tower
RCBC – local counterpart
Window type of a particular building
Interiors of Notre Dame (take note, there are 3 Notre Dames, 1 highrise, 1 by Lecorb, 1 yung may hunchback)
Buildings by Breuer, Gropius, Le Corb, Van der Rohe, Meier, Santiago Calatrava
WTC Terminal
Past board exam questions
German churches
SOM Buildings in the Philippines
New famous buildings
No Philippine Churches

8. Theory
DK Ching’s Dictionary

9. Plumbing
Pipe size of floor drain
Colors of pipes, polybutelene
Which pipes cannot be used as water drain due to corrosion
No need to read the entire plumbing code

10.Electrical
Madaming lumabas… pero oks daw utilities sa CDEP
11.Structural
Get notes from Capricorn
Terms / definitions from NSCP
Design standards from NSCP
Elastic modulus of steel and concrete
ASTM nos.
No computations

12.Others
Practical questions like… if something went wrong with the mechanical plans, who should be the 1st party to be informed… (owner, contractor, mech consultant?)
Read the Illustrated dictionary of DK Ching at least thrice.