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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. ...






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






11. Construction Document






12. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






13. 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.






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






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






17. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






19. A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members that extends from the ridge or the hip down to the downslope perimeter of the eave - designed to support the roof deck and its loads.






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






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






22. Schematic Design






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






36. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






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






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






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






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






42. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






43. 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.






44. A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members that extends from the ridge or the hip down to the downslope perimeter of the eave - designed to support the roof deck and its loads.






45. Design-Bid-Build






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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







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