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Building Construction Management Vocab

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2. Piles made of interlocking sheet steel driven into the ground to support an excavation. Shoring: Temporary vertical or inclined supports used in concrete formwork or excavation.






3. Rebar: An deformed steel bar used as concrete reinforcement. Welded-Wire Reinforcement: A prefabricated rectangular grid of steel wires spot-welded together at intersections - used as reinforcement in concrete slabs.






4. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.






5. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.






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7. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.






8. Slender - closely spaced - parallel beams in a wood light (or light-gauge steel) frame floor.






9. Type 1: General Use - Type 2: -Type 3: High Early Strength - Type 4: Low Heat of Hydration - Type 5: Sulfate Resistant






10. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:






11. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.






12. A type of glass made by adding a metallic pigment during manufacture.






13. Wrought iron is corrosive resistant - time consuming to make - and contains about .02% carbon. VS. Mild Steel contains .1-2.5% carbon and is much stronger and easier to make.






14. Floating: The process of smoothing a freshly placed concrete surface after it has been struck (leveled).






15. A type of tempered glass obtained from a process that reduces (or eliminates) the possibility of spontaneous breakage of tempered glass during its service life.






16. Control Joint: A sawed or tooled joint on the top surface of a concrete slab-on-ground; a continuous vertical joint in a concrete masonry wall. Cold Joint: A nonmovement joint resulting when fresh concrete is placed against previously placed concrete






17. A test that measures the workability of fresh concrete by filling a cone-shaped mold with concrete - removing the mold - and measuring the height to which the concrete settles below its original height.






18. 10' - 15' discontinuous trenches are dug down to bedrock and filled with a bentonite slurry. Concrete is then pumped from the bottom up to create a waterproof wall for excavation pits.






19. Design-Build






20. Floating: The process of smoothing a freshly placed concrete surface after it has been struck (leveled).






21. Design-Build






22. Two pieces of glass laminated under heat and pressure to a plastic interlayer to form a fused unit.






23. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.






24. Snug-tight = hand tightened by a worker. Slip-Critical = hand tightened - then extra tightening to a certain tensile strength. Shear resistance is provided by the friction between the connected surfaces.






25. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.






26. Post-tentioning: Subjecting a concrete or masonry member to compressive stresses by tensioning high-strength steel strands (wires) after the concrete has developed sufficient strength.






27. A large-diameter - deep reinforced-concrete foundation element made by drilling a hole into the ground and filling it with concrete; an enclosure that permits excavation work to be carried out under water.






28. A stuccolike exterior finish that includes a layer of foam insulation - fiberglass reinforcing mesh - and one or two coats of a polymer-based finish - also called synthetic stucco.






29. Metal panels consisting of polyurethane foam sandwiched between and bonded to two metal sheets - used in curtain wall applications.






30. I - C - L - T - Pipes - Tubes - round - Rectangular bars - plates






31. Metal panels consisting of polyurethane foam sandwiched between and bonded to two metal sheets - used in curtain wall applications.






32. Chemical compounds that are used in concrete mixes to increase the workability of the mix without reducing the slump.






33. A type of concrete foundation where one large - combined footing is used for several columns and load-bearing walls - often for the entire building. A concrete slab-on-ground used as foundation for light frame buildings is the simplest type of mat fo






34. A type of concrete foundation where one large - combined footing is used for several columns and load-bearing walls - often for the entire building. A concrete slab-on-ground used as foundation for light frame buildings is the simplest type of mat fo






35. A type of glass made by adding a metallic pigment during manufacture.






36. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.






37. Design-Bid-Build






38. Method of sawing a log by sawing in one or two directions only. The grain pattern varies from nearly parallel to the wide face to perpendicular. vs. A method of sawing lumber where the log is cut radially into four quarters and then sawed along radia






39. Flat glass obtained by heating and then gradually cooling it to relieve internal stresses that develop during the early stage of its manufacturing process. Annealed glass is the basic form of flat glass.






40. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.






41. A legal document that regulates the design and construction of buildings to ensure that the buildings meet minimum standards of health - safety - and welfare.






42. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.






43. Friction Pile: Bears the load by using friction between it and the ground around it by having a tapered form. End-Bearing Piles: Most of the load is transferred to the bottom of the pile.






44. Oriented Strandboard: A wood-based panel made by gluing several layers of wood strands under heat and pressure so that the adjacent layers are oriented in opposite directions.






45. A stuccolike exterior finish that includes a layer of foam insulation - fiberglass reinforcing mesh - and one or two coats of a polymer-based finish - also called synthetic stucco.






46. Parallel-Strand Lumber: Manufactured wood product composed of narrow strands of veneered lumber glued together - all oriented in the same direction to form a member of large cross section.






47. Used where columns are lightly loaded or bear on soils with a high bearing capacity.






48. Slender - closely spaced - parallel beams in a wood light (or light-gauge steel) frame floor.






49. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.






50. Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles: Closely spaced - reinforced concrete piles. Often has shock-crete sprayed on the front to make a wall. Secant Piles: Two sets of interlocking contiguous piles.