building construction Paper 2 WASSCE (PC 2nd), 2019

Question 4

 

  1. State three functional requirements of a sanitary appliance.
  2. Explain each of the following:
    1. span of a roof;
    2. soffit of a suspended floor;
    3. closed couple roof.

Observation

 

Most candidates were able to:
-state three functional requirements of a sanitary appliance.
-Explain each of the following:

  1. span of a roof;
  2. closed couple roof.
However, few of them failed to explain the soffit of a suspended floor;

The expected response to question 4 (b) (ii) is as given below:

    1. Soffit of a suspended floor:
      - the horizontal lower part of a suspended floor.