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Building Construction Management Vocab

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2. 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.






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






4. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






11. A stuccolike exterior finish that includes a layer of foam insulation - fiberglass reinforcing mesh - and one or two coats of a polymer-based finish - also called synthetic stucco.






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






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






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15. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






16. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






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. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. Design Development






25. 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.






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






27. 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.






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






29. An L-shaped steel pin that connects to the GFRC skin with a bonding pad and is welded to the supporting light-gauge steel frame.






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. Design-Bid-Build






40. 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






41. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






42. 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.






43. Design-Build






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45. Design-Bid-Build






46. Prescriptive codes give a clear - defined method for meeting a requirement. Performance codes allow the designer to decide how to meet the end requirement that must be met.






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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.