A variable-sloped pedestrian walkway that links a fixed structure or land with a floating structure. Gangways that connect to vessels are not addressed by this document.
Search Results "Definitions"
Filters
Commonly Searched Documents
-
Gangway
-
Element
An architectural or mechanical component of a building, facility, space, or site.
-
Story
That portion of a building or facility designed for human occupancy included between the upper surface of a floor and upper surface of the floor or roof next above. A story...
-
Tactile
An object that can be perceived using the sense of touch.
-
Walk
An exterior prepared surface for pedestrian use, including pedestrian areas such as plazas and courts.
-
Facility
All or any portion of buildings, structures, site improvements, elements, and pedestrian routes or vehicular ways located on a site.
-
Addition
An expansion, extension, or increase in the gross floor area or height of a building or facility.
-
Accessible
A site, building, facility, or portion thereof that complies with this part.
-
CHARACTERS
[DSA-AC] Letters, numbers, punctuation marks and typographic symbols.
-
CLEAR
[DSA-AC] Unobstructed.
-
SIGN
[DSA-AC] An element composed of displayed textual, verbal, symbolic, tactile, and/or pictorial information.
-
COMPLY WITH
[DSA-AC] Comply with means to meet one or more provisions of this code.
-
RAMP
A walking surface that has a running slope steeper than one unit vertical in 20 units horizontal (5-percent slope).
-
APPROVED
[DSA-AC] “Approved” means meeting the approval of the enforcing agency, except as otherwise provided by law, when used in connection with any system, material, type of construction,...
-
RISER
[DSA-AC] The upright part between two adjacent stair treads, between either an upper or lower landing and an adjacent stair tread, or between two adjacent landings.
-
WORKSTATION
[DSA-AC] An area defined by equipment and/or work surfaces intended for use by employees only, and generally for one or a small number of employees at a time. Examples include ticket...
-
SPACE
[DSA-AC] A definable area, such as a room, toilet room, hall, assembly area, entrance, storage room, alcove, courtyard, or lobby.
-
TACTILE
[DSA-AC] An object that can be perceived using the sense of touch.
-
MAY
[DSA-AC] May denotes an option or alternative.
-
PASSENGER ELEVATOR
[DSA-AC] See “Elevator, Passenger”.
-
SHALL
[DSA-AC] Denotes a mandatory specification or requirement.
-
ADDITION
[DSA-AC] An expansion, extension or increase in the gross floor area or height of a building or facility.
-
GANGWAY
[DSA-AC] A variable-sloped pedestrian walkway that links a fixed structure or land with a floating structure. Gangways that connect to vessels are not addressed by this code.
-
DORMITORY
A space in a building where group sleeping accommodations are provided in one room, or in a series of closely associated rooms, for persons not members of the same family group,...