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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






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






3. 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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. Post-tentioning: Subjecting a concrete or masonry member to compressive stresses by tensioning high-strength steel strands (wires) after the concrete has developed sufficient strength.






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. Post-tentioning: Subjecting a concrete or masonry member to compressive stresses by tensioning high-strength steel strands (wires) after the concrete has developed sufficient strength.






16. 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.






17. Construction Document






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. Construction Document






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






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






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






31. Design Development






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. Construction Management






39. 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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






47. One-Way Slab: An elevated reinforced concrete slab where most of the load on the slab is carried to the supporting beams in one direction; a four-sided - supported rectangular slab whose length is greater than or equal to twice its width. Two Way Sla






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






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






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