|
A multi-storey car park (also called a parking garage, parking structure, parking ramp, parkade, parking building, parking deck or indoor parking) is a building designed for car parking and where there are a number of floors or levels on which parking takes place. It is essentially a stacked car park. ==Nomenclature== The term ''multistorey car park'' is used in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and many Commonwealth of Nations countries and commonly misspelled with a hyphen. In the western United States, the term ''parking structure'' is used, especially when it is necessary to distinguish such a structure from the "garage" in a house. In some places in North America, "parking garage" refers only to an indoor, often underground, structure. Outdoor, multi-level parking facilities are referred to by a number of regional terms: *Parking garage is used, to varying degrees, throughout the U.S.; and rarely, in Canada as well, and professionally by civil engineers; *Parking deck is used in the Michigan, Youngstown and most parts of the country. It is the preferred nomenclature when referencing parking structures of any sort. *Parking ramp is used in the upper Midwest, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, and has been observed as far east as Rochester, New York. *Parkade is widely used in Canada and South Africa *Parking building is used in New Zealand. Architects and civil engineers in the USA are likely to call it a parking structure, since their work is all about structures, and that term is the vernacular in some of the western United States. When attached to a high-rise of another use, it is sometimes called a parking podium. United States building codes use the term open parking garage to refer to a structure designed for car storage that has openings along at least 40% of the perimeter, as opposed to an enclosed parking garage that requires mechanical ventilation.〔(International Code Council. ''International Building Code 2012 (Second Printing)'' )〕 Natural or mechanical ventilation provides fresh air flow to disperse car exhaust in normal conditions, or hot gas and smoke in case of fire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Multi-storey car park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|