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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






2. 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






3. Design Development






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. Schematic Design






10. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






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






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






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






15. Design-Build






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Load=bearing or non-load bearing wall to which exterior cladding is adhered or anchored.






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. A ceiling hung from the overlying floor or roof structure.






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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.