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Building Construction Management Vocab
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1. Material added to concrete mix to influence its performance.
Admixture
Plasticizers
Slump Test
Wood Light Framing
2. Type 1: General Use - Type 2: -Type 3: High Early Strength - Type 4: Low Heat of Hydration - Type 5: Sulfate Resistant
reflective glass
GFRC
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
3. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.
Strip Footing
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Rafter
Wrought iron v. mild steel
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
The Three Phases of Construction Management
AISC standard structural shapes
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
5. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
Admixture
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.
Building Code
Laminated glass
OSB
GFRC
7. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.
Veneer
Stucco - its components and layers
Tie Backs
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
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.
Sheathing
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Stucco - its components and layers
Pressure Treated Lumber
9. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
LVL
Veneer
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.
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
OSB
Pressure Treated Lumber
Stucco - its components and layers
11. Construction Management
low-e coating
CM
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Tie Backs
12. I - C - L - T - Pipes - Tubes - round - Rectangular bars - plates
AISC standard structural shapes
low-e coating
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
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.
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Floating and Troweling
14. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.
DD
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Annealed glass
Pile and Pile Driver
15. ...
Veneer
Bentonite Slurry Wall
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
16. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.
Wood Light Framing
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Rafter
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
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
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Tie Backs
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
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
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Annealed glass
OSB
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
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.
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
SD
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.
Spandrel beam
Stone cladding
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Stucco - its components and layers
21. Material added to concrete mix to influence its performance.
Stone cladding
Admixture
Sheet Piles and Shoring
CM
22. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:
low-e coating
Glue-Laminated Lumber
reflective glass
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
23. Schematic Design
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
The Three Parts of Construction Management
SD
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
24. Metal panels consisting of polyurethane foam sandwiched between and bonded to two metal sheets - used in curtain wall applications.
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
Backup wall
Insulated metal panels
25. Exterior wall cladding system suspended from or supported by the structural frame of the building.
curtain walls
CM
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Annealed glass
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
heat-soaked tempered glass
tempered glass
Caisson
Tendons
27. A fastener that connects an exterior cladding to the supporting frame to resist lateral loads
Fire Resistance Rating
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Suspended ceiling
Tie Backs
28. Floating: The process of smoothing a freshly placed concrete surface after it has been struck (leveled).
Wood Light Framing
Caisson
Floating and Troweling
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
29. Used where columns are lightly loaded or bear on soils with a high bearing capacity.
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Column Footing
DB
Plasticizers
30. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.
Tinted glass
Dewatering
Joist
Caisson
31. Design-Bid-Build
curtain walls
Stone cladding
DBB
Caisson
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
CM
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
The Three Phases of Construction Management
CM
33. Construction Document
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
CD
Wrought iron v. mild steel
34. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Engineered Lumber
Joist
35. Lengths of dimension lumber - glued and laminated together to create a structural member of a large cross section.
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Stone cladding
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
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.
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
curtain walls
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
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.
DB
Spandrel beam
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
38. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.
Pile and Pile Driver
Pressure Treated Lumber
Tie Backs
Zoning Ordinance
39. ...
CD
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
GFRC
Strip Footing
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.
Veneer
CD
Spandrel beam
OSB
41. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.
Dewatering
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
Rafter
reflective glass
42. Used where columns are lightly loaded or bear on soils with a high bearing capacity.
Stucco - its components and layers
Tendons
Building Inspector's Process
Column Footing
43. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Stucco - its components and layers
The Three Phases of Construction Management
AISC standard structural shapes
LVL
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.
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
tempered glass
Building Inspector's Process
Soldier Piles and Lagging
45. Design-Build
DB
tempered glass
Rafter
Zoning Ordinance
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.
Re-Shoring
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Insulated metal panels
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
47. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.
Caisson
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
48. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.
curtain walls
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
CM
Veneer
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
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
heat-soaked tempered glass
Pressure Treated Lumber
50. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive
Backup wall
OSB
Stone cladding
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete