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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






3. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






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






6. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






7. Exterior Sheathing - Water resistant membrane - flashing with weep holes - self-adhering rubberized asphalt membrane - self-furring metal base - scratch coat - brown coat - finish coat.






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. A beam that spans between columns on the exterior face of a frame structure.






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






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






22. 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.






23. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






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






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. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. Design Development






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. Design-Bid-Build






40. 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.






41. Design-Build






42. Schematic Design






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






44. 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






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






46. The combination of high-strength steel strands - sleeves - and end anchorages used for post-tensioning concrete.






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






48. ...






49. 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.






50. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive