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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Design-Bid-Build






31. 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.






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






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






34. Design-Bid-Build






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






36. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






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






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






39. Design-Build






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






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. 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






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






50. 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.