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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






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






3. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






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






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






6. 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


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






8. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






9. 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.






10. Design Development






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






13. 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.






14. Design-Bid-Build






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






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






17. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






19. 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.






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






21. A stuccolike exterior finish that includes a layer of foam insulation - fiberglass reinforcing mesh - and one or two coats of a polymer-based finish - also called synthetic stucco.






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






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24. 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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






33. 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.






34. 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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. A type of concrete foundation where one large - combined footing is used for several columns and load-bearing walls - often for the entire building. A concrete slab-on-ground used as foundation for light frame buildings is the simplest type of mat fo






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. Design-Bid-Build






50. Schematic Design