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Building Construction Management Vocab
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1. I - C - L - T - Pipes - Tubes - round - Rectangular bars - plates
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
DBB
AISC standard structural shapes
Tinted glass
2. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Engineered Lumber
Zoning Ordinance
Fire Resistance Rating
3. 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.
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
4. A ceiling hung from the overlying floor or roof structure.
Suspended ceiling
LVL
Fire Resistance Rating
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
5. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Mat Foundation
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Stone cladding
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
6. Lumber that ranges from 2 in. to 4 in. thick. The actual dimensions are smaller than the nominal dimensions.
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
Pressure Treated Lumber
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
7. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Tinted glass
DB
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
8. Floating: The process of smoothing a freshly placed concrete surface after it has been struck (leveled).
Floating and Troweling
Suspended ceiling
Stone cladding
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
9. 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.
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
10. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
low-e coating
Rafter
SD
11. 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.
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Sheathing
Rafter
GFRC
12. 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.
LVL
Tinted glass
Stucco - its components and layers
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
13. 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.
curtain walls
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Wrought iron v. mild steel
The Three Phases of Construction Management
14. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.
Admixture
Pile and Pile Driver
Suspended ceiling
Mat Foundation
15. M = Least amount of lime; O = Most lime; N = Second most lime; S = Second least lime
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Joist
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
low-e coating
16. Cee Channel: Studs and joists - symbolized by S - Runner Channel: bridging channels - symbolized by you - Tracks: you shaped - symbolized by T
Laminated glass
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
SD
AISC standard structural shapes
17. Shallow Foundation: Used for all types of buildings and bear directly on the upper soil levels. Deep Foundation: Used where soil on the surface does not have adequate strength or is unstable. Consists of piles or piers.
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
Wood Light Framing
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
18. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:
LVL
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
curtain walls
The Three Parts of Construction Management
19. A large-diameter - deep reinforced-concrete foundation element made by drilling a hole into the ground and filling it with concrete; an enclosure that permits excavation work to be carried out under water.
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Caisson
Pressure Treated Lumber
Bentonite Slurry Wall
20. 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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21. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.
reflective glass
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
tempered glass
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
22. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.
Spandrel beam
DBB
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
23. 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.
heat-soaked tempered glass
reflective glass
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Wood Light Framing
24. 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.
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
SD
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
25. Design Development
DB
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
PSL
DD
26. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive
Annealed glass
DD
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
27. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Tie Backs
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
reflective glass
28. 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.
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
GFRC
Veneer
Bentonite Slurry Wall
29. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.
DBB
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Building Inspector's Process
Strip Footing
30. Schematic Design
tempered glass
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
SD
Slump Test
31. Differential: The building's foundation settles at different rates at different points. Uniform: The building's foundation settles at a uniform rate.
DBB
SD
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
32. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
low-e coating
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Bentonite Slurry Wall
33. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.
Veneer
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Engineered Lumber
Spandrel beam
34. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.
Dewatering
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Spandrel beam
35. A type of glass made by adding a metallic pigment during manufacture.
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
DD
CD
Tinted glass
36. 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.
Slump Test
Admixture
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
SD
37. 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
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Tinted glass
Laminated glass
The Three Parts of Construction Management
38. A large-diameter - deep reinforced-concrete foundation element made by drilling a hole into the ground and filling it with concrete; an enclosure that permits excavation work to be carried out under water.
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Caisson
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
39. 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.
DBB
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Admixture
Pressure Treated Lumber
40. Construction Document
CD
Building Code
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
Column Footing
41. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.
Veneer
Flex anchors
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Floating and Troweling
42. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Wrought iron v. mild steel
reflective glass
Strip Footing
43. 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.
heat-soaked tempered glass
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
Column Footing
PSL
44. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
PSL
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
45. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Engineered Lumber
46. 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.
Tendons
OSB
DBB
Laminated glass
47. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Tie Backs
48. 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
Re-Shoring
Soldier Piles and Lagging
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
49. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Wood Light Framing
Tinted glass
Suspended ceiling
The Three Parts of Construction Management
50. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
Building Code
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete