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Building Construction Management Vocab
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1. Used where columns are lightly loaded or bear on soils with a high bearing capacity.
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Building Inspector's Process
Column Footing
Tie Backs
2. A beam that spans between columns on the exterior face of a frame structure.
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
Admixture
SD
Spandrel beam
3. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.
Veneer
Re-Shoring
DB
CD
4. 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.
Admixture
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Floating and Troweling
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
5. Construction Document
Pressure Treated Lumber
Veneer
CD
Engineered Lumber
6. 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
Mat Foundation
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
Tendons
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
7. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.
PSL
Re-Shoring
Stone cladding
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
8. 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
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Insulated metal panels
tempered glass
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
9. Floating: The process of smoothing a freshly placed concrete surface after it has been struck (leveled).
Rafter
Floating and Troweling
tempered glass
Insulated metal panels
10. 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.
Slump Test
Strip Footing
PSL
Laminated glass
11. 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.
Slump Test
Tinted glass
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
12. Design Development
Flex anchors
DD
Zoning Ordinance
reflective glass
13. ...
tempered glass
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Flex anchors
Wrought iron v. mild steel
14. 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
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15. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.
Tendons
Veneer
DBB
reflective glass
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.
Bentonite Slurry Wall
Building Inspector's Process
reflective glass
OSB
17. 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
Bentonite Slurry Wall
Tie Backs
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
18. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Backup wall
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
curtain walls
19. Design-Build
Strip Footing
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Dewatering
DB
20. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.
Engineered Lumber
CD
Strip Footing
Caisson
21. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
Strip Footing
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
22. 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.
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Re-Shoring
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
23. Schematic Design
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
SD
24. Load=bearing or non-load bearing wall to which exterior cladding is adhered or anchored.
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Backup wall
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Tendons
25. Exterior wall cladding system suspended from or supported by the structural frame of the building.
curtain walls
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
CM
Floating and Troweling
26. A framing system that mimics wood light frame construction - but the elements are made of cold-formed - galvanized sheet steel.
low-e coating
Admixture
Plasticizers
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
27. Differential: The building's foundation settles at different rates at different points. Uniform: The building's foundation settles at a uniform rate.
Re-Shoring
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Strip Footing
Suspended ceiling
28. The combination of high-strength steel strands - sleeves - and end anchorages used for post-tensioning concrete.
Tendons
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Building Code
DBB
29. 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.
OSB
Veneer
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Sheet Piles and Shoring
30. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.
Re-Shoring
Laminated glass
reflective glass
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
31. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.
Stucco - its components and layers
Dewatering
Plasticizers
The Three Parts of Construction Management
32. Two pieces of glass laminated under heat and pressure to a plastic interlayer to form a fused unit.
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Laminated glass
Admixture
33. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.
Pile and Pile Driver
Wood Light Framing
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Flex anchors
34. Lumber that ranges from 2 in. to 4 in. thick. The actual dimensions are smaller than the nominal dimensions.
Wood Light Framing
Re-Shoring
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Zoning Ordinance
35. 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
EIFS
Rafter
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
Veneer
36. 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.
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Re-Shoring
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
37. Construction Management
Joist
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
CM
Laminated glass
38. Unreinforced precast concrete panels that have glass fibers reinforcing the concrete. Consists of the GFRC skin - light-gauge steel backup frame - and anchors connecting the two together.
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
Soldier Piles and Lagging
GFRC
39. 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
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40. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.
Zoning Ordinance
DB
Strip Footing
Plasticizers
41. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Glue-Laminated Lumber
42. Design-Bid-Build
GFRC
low-e coating
DBB
Glue-Laminated Lumber
43. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Dewatering
LVL
44. Concrete: A composite material consisting of portland cement - coarse aggregate (crushed stone) - fine aggregate (sand) - and water.
Dewatering
Tendons
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
45. 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.
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
reflective glass
Pile and Pile Driver
46. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.
reflective glass
Rafter
Veneer
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
47. 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.
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Floating and Troweling
Pressure Treated Lumber
48. 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.
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Bentonite Slurry Wall
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
49. Chemical compounds that are used in concrete mixes to increase the workability of the mix without reducing the slump.
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Plasticizers
Slump Test
The Three Phases of Construction Management
50. 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
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
Engineered Lumber
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Suspended ceiling