Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 918 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND BUSINESS SERVICES, BUILDING CODES DIVISION › Division 674 - PREFABRICATED CONSTRUCTION › Section 918-674-0005 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following definitions are in addition to those included in
				ORS 455.010, the
Oregon
				Structural Specialty Code
and the
Oregon One and Two Family
				Dwelling Specialty Code
.
(1)
			 "Approved" means approved by the Building Codes Division or certified
			 third-party inspection agency.
(2)
			 "Audit" means an evaluation of a manufacturer's compliance control procedure or
			 an examination of prefabricated structure construction by the Division or the
			 Division's representative.
(3)
			 "Building Site" means any lot or tract of land upon which a prefabricated
			 structure is installed.
(4) "Closed
			 Construction" means a factory-assembled structure or component that encloses
			 factory-installed structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing or energy
			 conservation equipment or material inside a floor, wall or roof cavity which is
			 not entirely open for visual inspection of the equipment or material at the
			 site.
(5) "Compliance Control"
			 means the method of controlling the construction, fabrication, assembly and
			 erection where applicable, including storage and use of various materials, to
			 insure compliance with the rules and construction codes adopted for the
			 regulation of prefabricated structures.
(6) "Component." (See Prefabricated
			 Structure.)
(7) "Custom Plan" means
			 a plan for construction of a one-of-a-kind structure.
(8) "Design Option" means an alternative
			 design or type of construction included in a design plan.
(9) "Design Master Plan" means a document, or
			 set of documents, used for constructing multiple prefabricated structures
			 utilizing the same plan with or without options.
(10) "Division" means the Building Codes
			 Division.
(11) "Incomplete
			 Structure" means either a prefabricated permanent or relocatable building
			 which, because of design, size or transportation limitations, is not completed
			 by the manufacturer at the manufacturer's facility (i.e., on-site roof framing,
			 installation of plumbing fixtures or roof-mounted heating, ventilation or air
			 conditioning equipment)
(12)
			 "Insignia of Compliance" has the meaning given in ORS
			 455.705.
(13) "Installation" means the assembly of a
			 prefabricated structure on-site, and the process of attaching the structure to
			 land, foundation, or an existing building.
(14) "Manufacture" means the process of
			 making, fabricating, constructing, forming or assembling a product from raw,
			 unfinished or semi-finished materials to produce prefabricated
			 structures.
(15) "Manufacturer."
			 (See Registered Manufacturer.)
(16)
			 "Manufacturer's Compliance Control" means an inspection program implemented and
			 maintained by the manufacturer under Division certification and audit
			 procedures.
(17) "Monitoring" means
			 an evaluation or examination by the Division of a certified third-party agency
			 to determine compliance with Oregon laws, rules and the
Oregon Specialty
			 Codes
.
(18) "Panel." (See
			 Prefabricated Component.)
(19)
			 "Plan" means a specific design of prefabricated structure as designated by the
			 manufacturer to be the working drawings for production of a unit.
(20) "Prefabricated Structure" has the
			 meaning given in ORS 455.010 and includes the
			 following types of structures and components:
(a) "Prefabricated Component" means any
			 structural subassembly or component such as wall, floor or roof panels;
			 plumbing or electrical service walls; bath, kitchen or utility service modules;
			 service core modular units; refrigeration panels; and reinforced concrete
			 components or subassemblies, provided they are built at an off-site location
			 using closed construction. It does not include roof trusses, open wall panels
			 and similar subassemblies which are built at an off-site location using open
			 construction.
(b) "Prefabricated
			 Component Building" means a building consisting of prefabricated components and
			 shipped to a site for assembly.
(c)
			 "Prefabricated Membrane Structure" means a temporary or permanent structure
			 consisting in whole or part of membrane construction manufactured at an
			 off-site location using closed construction.
(d) "Prefabricated Permanent Building" means
			 a structure built as one unit, which may be divided into transportable
			 sections, and designed to be permanently installed on a building
			 site.
(e) "Prefabricated
			 Relocatable Building" means a prefabricated structure designed to be moved from
			 one location to another.
(f)
			 "Prefabricated Service Module" means a factory-assembled three-dimensional
			 portion of a building that may include installed mechanical, electrical,
			 plumbing, heating or cooling elements and related systems. These units may
			 contain kitchens, bathrooms, utility rooms or other similar use modules,
			 sometimes referred to as "wet boxes," "mechanical cores" or "utility cores."
A prefabricated structure does not include a prefabricated
				permanent building after it has been initially installed on the building site,
				inspected and approved for initial occupancy and the Division has accepted the
				building owner's agreement that all future construction will be "open"
				construction under the control of the local authority having
				jurisdiction.