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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






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






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






4. 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






5. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. Construction Management






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






13. 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.






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. Schematic Design






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. Design-Bid-Build






32. 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






33. Construction Document






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






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






36. 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.






37. Snug-tight = hand tightened by a worker. Slip-Critical = hand tightened - then extra tightening to a certain tensile strength. Shear resistance is provided by the friction between the connected surfaces.






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






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40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Design-Build






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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






50. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive