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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






21. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.






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






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






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






25. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






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






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






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






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






32. Design-Build






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






38. They review the plan sets to make sure they meet code requirements - then they will issue building permits if all codes and regulations are met. During the construction process - an inspector will be called to review the construction of specific part


39. 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.






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.






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






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