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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Design-Build






6. 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






7. Differential: The building's foundation settles at different rates at different points. Uniform: The building's foundation settles at a uniform rate.






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






9. 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.






10. A fastener that connects an exterior cladding to the supporting frame to resist lateral loads






11. A ceiling hung from the overlying floor or roof structure.






12. 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






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






14. A panelized material applied to the exterior surfaces of wood or light-gauge steel frame members to add rigidity to the frame and to serve as a base for (wall) cladding or roofing.






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






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






17. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.






18. They review the plan sets to make sure they meet code requirements - then they will issue building permits if all codes and regulations are met. During the construction process - an inspector will be called to review the construction of specific part

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19. 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.






20. Differential: The building's foundation settles at different rates at different points. Uniform: The building's foundation settles at a uniform rate.






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






22. The combination of high-strength steel strands - sleeves - and end anchorages used for post-tensioning concrete.






23. 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.






24. Place where materials are stored on or near the project site.






25. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






26. 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.






27. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.






28. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.






29. 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






30. A framing system that mimics wood light frame construction - but the elements are made of cold-formed - galvanized sheet steel.






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






32. 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.






33. Schematic Design






34. Lengths of dimension lumber - glued and laminated together to create a structural member of a large cross section.






35. Construction Document






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






37. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






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43. 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.






44. 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.






45. Exterior Sheathing - Water resistant membrane - flashing with weep holes - self-adhering rubberized asphalt membrane - self-furring metal base - scratch coat - brown coat - finish coat.






46. Construction Document






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






48. Material added to concrete mix to influence its performance.






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50. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases