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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. Soldier Piles are placed into pre-drilled holes that are filled with concrete after the piles are set. Excavation begins - and as the pit is dug deeper - lagging is bolted to the soldier piles to support them.






2. Design Development






3. Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles: Closely spaced - reinforced concrete piles. Often has shock-crete sprayed on the front to make a wall. Secant Piles: Two sets of interlocking contiguous piles.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. Construction Document






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






18. Design-Bid-Build






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Soldier Piles are placed into pre-drilled holes that are filled with concrete after the piles are set. Excavation begins - and as the pit is dug deeper - lagging is bolted to the soldier piles to support them.






35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles: Closely spaced - reinforced concrete piles. Often has shock-crete sprayed on the front to make a wall. Secant Piles: Two sets of interlocking contiguous piles.






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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