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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






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






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






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






6. Shallow Foundation: Used for all types of buildings and bear directly on the upper soil levels. Deep Foundation: Used where soil on the surface does not have adequate strength or is unstable. Consists of piles or piers.






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






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






9. Construction Management






10. 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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11. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.






12. 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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






27. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






28. 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






29. Lumber that ranges from 2 in. to 4 in. thick. The actual dimensions are smaller than the nominal dimensions.






30. 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.






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






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






33. One-Way Slab: An elevated reinforced concrete slab where most of the load on the slab is carried to the supporting beams in one direction; a four-sided - supported rectangular slab whose length is greater than or equal to twice its width. Two Way Sla






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






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. Lumber that ranges from 2 in. to 4 in. thick. The actual dimensions are smaller than the nominal dimensions.






40. Exterior wall cladding system suspended from or supported by the structural frame of the building.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Concrete: A composite material consisting of portland cement - coarse aggregate (crushed stone) - fine aggregate (sand) - and water.






46. Load=bearing or non-load bearing wall to which exterior cladding is adhered or anchored.






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






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






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






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