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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.






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






4. Construction Management






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. Schematic Design






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






17. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






19. 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.






20. A structural frame assembly composed primarily of dimension lumber studs - floor joists - and roof rafters and panels of wood-based sheathing materials. Usually 16' OC.






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22. 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






23. Design-Build






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






25. Design Development






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






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






28. Design-Bid-Build






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






30. 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.






31. Construction Document






32. Design Development






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Cee Channel: Studs and joists - symbolized by S - Runner Channel: bridging channels - symbolized by you - Tracks: you shaped - symbolized by T






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






44. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.






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






46. Schematic Design






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive