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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. 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.






2. Design Development






3. 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.






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






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






6. Construction Document






7. Lengths of dimension lumber - glued and laminated together to create a structural member of a large cross section.






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






9. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.






10. 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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. A type of concrete foundation where one large - combined footing is used for several columns and load-bearing walls - often for the entire building. A concrete slab-on-ground used as foundation for light frame buildings is the simplest type of mat fo






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






17. 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.






18. Design-Build






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






29. 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.






30. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.






31. The combination of high-strength steel strands - sleeves - and end anchorages used for post-tensioning concrete.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.






35. Design Development






36. ...






37. 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.






38. 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






39. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.






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






41. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.






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






43. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.






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






45. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.






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






47. Lengths of dimension lumber - glued and laminated together to create a structural member of a large cross section.






48. 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.






49. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.






50. 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.