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Building Construction Management Vocab
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1. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.
LVL
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Tendons
Strip Footing
2. 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.
Annealed glass
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
3. 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.
Tinted glass
EIFS
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
4. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
5. A fastener that connects an exterior cladding to the supporting frame to resist lateral loads
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Tie Backs
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
Admixture
6. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
reflective glass
AISC standard structural shapes
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
7. 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.
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Rafter
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
8. A ceiling hung from the overlying floor or roof structure.
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Floating and Troweling
Suspended ceiling
9. Design-Bid-Build
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
tempered glass
Engineered Lumber
DBB
10. ...
Pile and Pile Driver
Slump Test
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Dewatering
11. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.
Glue-Laminated Lumber
The Three Parts of Construction Management
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
Fire Resistance Rating
12. 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.
Caisson
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
13. Unreinforced precast concrete panels that have glass fibers reinforcing the concrete. Consists of the GFRC skin - light-gauge steel backup frame - and anchors connecting the two together.
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
curtain walls
The Three Parts of Construction Management
GFRC
14. Hollow Core Slabs: Precast - prestressed concrete slabs that contain voids in their central region that reduce dead loads by 40-50%. - Planks: Precast concrete slabs that are solid.
Admixture
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Dewatering
Sheathing
15. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Dewatering
EIFS
16. ...
Backup wall
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
17. Design-Bid-Build
reflective glass
DBB
PSL
GFRC
18. A legal document that regulates the design and construction of buildings to ensure that the buildings meet minimum standards of health - safety - and welfare.
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Building Code
heat-soaked tempered glass
Floating and Troweling
19. Exterior Sheathing - Water resistant membrane - flashing with weep holes - self-adhering rubberized asphalt membrane - self-furring metal base - scratch coat - brown coat - finish coat.
Stucco - its components and layers
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
20. Cee Channel: Studs and joists - symbolized by S - Runner Channel: bridging channels - symbolized by you - Tracks: you shaped - symbolized by T
tempered glass
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Tinted glass
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
21. A glass obtained by heating annealed glass to a high temperature and then suddenly cooling it - Which makes it four times stronger than annealed glass; used as safety glass because it breaks into pieces that are small and blunt enough not to cause in
tempered glass
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
LVL
Spandrel beam
22. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Dewatering
The Three Parts of Construction Management
OSB
23. Prescriptive codes give a clear - defined method for meeting a requirement. Performance codes allow the designer to decide how to meet the end requirement that must be met.
Flex anchors
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
LVL
24. A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members that extends from the ridge or the hip down to the downslope perimeter of the eave - designed to support the roof deck and its loads.
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Rafter
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
25. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Mat Foundation
Veneer
Building Code
26. 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.
Pressure Treated Lumber
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Bentonite Slurry Wall
Rafter
27. A legal document that regulates the design and construction of buildings to ensure that the buildings meet minimum standards of health - safety - and welfare.
Building Code
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
EIFS
Stucco - its components and layers
28. Concrete: A composite material consisting of portland cement - coarse aggregate (crushed stone) - fine aggregate (sand) - and water.
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Soldier Piles and Lagging
29. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Building Code
LVL
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Flex anchors
30. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Admixture
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
31. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.
Strip Footing
Pressure Treated Lumber
Dewatering
Column Footing
32. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Annealed glass
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
low-e coating
33. 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.
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
PSL
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
34. 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.
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
heat-soaked tempered glass
Strip Footing
Caisson
35. 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
AISC standard structural shapes
Stucco - its components and layers
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
36. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
SD
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Veneer
DD
37. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.
Building Inspector's Process
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Re-Shoring
Strip Footing
38. 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.
Mat Foundation
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Wood Light Framing
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
39. M = Least amount of lime; O = Most lime; N = Second most lime; S = Second least lime
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Joist
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
Tie Backs
40. An L-shaped steel pin that connects to the GFRC skin with a bonding pad and is welded to the supporting light-gauge steel frame.
heat-soaked tempered glass
Stone cladding
Flex anchors
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
41. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.
Admixture
PSL
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
42. 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.
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Spandrel beam
OSB
Caisson
43. Sump: Dig sump pits that are sufficiently below the elevation of the excavation - then use sump pumps to drain the water out of the pits and pump it away from the site. Well Point: A number of vertical pipes are sunk around the perimeter of the excav
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
OSB
44. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.
Pile and Pile Driver
Stone cladding
DBB
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
45. 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
tempered glass
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Rafter
Mat Foundation
46. Place where materials are stored on or near the project site.
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Floating and Troweling
Caisson
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
47. A fastener that connects an exterior cladding to the supporting frame to resist lateral loads
Tie Backs
Re-Shoring
Slump Test
Suspended ceiling
48. 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
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Slump Test
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Rafter
49. 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.
reflective glass
Veneer
SD
Sheet Piles and Shoring
50. Load=bearing or non-load bearing wall to which exterior cladding is adhered or anchored.
Backup wall
Tinted glass
Plasticizers
The Three Phases of Construction Management