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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






2. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






3. 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






4. 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.






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






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






8. Schematic Design






9. Construction Document






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






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






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






14. M = Least amount of lime; O = Most lime; N = Second most lime; S = Second least lime






15. 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.






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Construction Management






21. Wood into which preservatives have been pressure injected to retard termite infestation and fungal decay. Using a different preservative - the pressure treatment can also be used for increasing the fire resistance of wood.






22. 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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






30. 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.






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






47. 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.






48. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






49. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






50. 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.