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Building Construction Management Vocab
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Two pieces of glass laminated under heat and pressure to a plastic interlayer to form a fused unit.
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Laminated glass
AISC standard structural shapes
OSB
2. ...
Building Code
Mat Foundation
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
3. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Tie Backs
LVL
Floating and Troweling
Annealed glass
4. 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.
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
5. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Admixture
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
The Three Parts of Construction Management
6. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Zoning Ordinance
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
7. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
8. 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.
Engineered Lumber
Sheathing
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
Tie Backs
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
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
tempered glass
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Rafter
10. Slender - closely spaced - parallel beams in a wood light (or light-gauge steel) frame floor.
Spandrel beam
Joist
Fire Resistance Rating
Flex anchors
11. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
heat-soaked tempered glass
Tinted glass
12. Metal panels consisting of polyurethane foam sandwiched between and bonded to two metal sheets - used in curtain wall applications.
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Zoning Ordinance
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
Insulated metal panels
13. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.
heat-soaked tempered glass
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Rafter
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
14. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
heat-soaked tempered glass
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
15. 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.
Caisson
DD
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
16. 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.
tempered glass
Spandrel beam
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
17. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive
LVL
Laminated glass
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
18. 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.
reflective glass
Re-Shoring
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
19. A framing system that mimics wood light frame construction - but the elements are made of cold-formed - galvanized sheet steel.
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Wood Light Framing
20. Type 1: General Use - Type 2: -Type 3: High Early Strength - Type 4: Low Heat of Hydration - Type 5: Sulfate Resistant
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
DBB
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
21. A legal document that regulates the design and construction of buildings to ensure that the buildings meet minimum standards of health - safety - and welfare.
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Building Code
Glue-Laminated Lumber
22. Chemical compounds that are used in concrete mixes to increase the workability of the mix without reducing the slump.
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Plasticizers
Strip Footing
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
23. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.
Pile and Pile Driver
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Sheathing
24. 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
Pile and Pile Driver
Bentonite Slurry Wall
SD
25. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.
reflective glass
Pile and Pile Driver
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
GFRC
26. 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.
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
GFRC
DBB
OSB
27. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.
Laminated glass
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
reflective glass
Fire Resistance Rating
28. 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.
Building Inspector's Process
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Flex anchors
Pressure Treated Lumber
29. Design-Bid-Build
Rafter
DBB
AISC standard structural shapes
Slump Test
30. Construction Document
The Three Phases of Construction Management
CD
heat-soaked tempered glass
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
31. 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.
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
DBB
Engineered Lumber
Fire Resistance Rating
32. ...
CM
Zoning Ordinance
Stone cladding
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
33. 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.
DBB
Tinted glass
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
34. 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.
DD
Building Code
DD
GFRC
35. 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.
Admixture
SD
PSL
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
36. 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.
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Mat Foundation
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
37. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Fire Resistance Rating
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
38. Flat glass obtained by heating and then gradually cooling it to relieve internal stresses that develop during the early stage of its manufacturing process. Annealed glass is the basic form of flat glass.
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Annealed glass
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
OSB
39. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Fire Resistance Rating
Sheet Piles and Shoring
The Three Parts of Construction Management
LVL
40. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.
Backup wall
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Engineered Lumber
41. Construction Management
Insulated metal panels
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
CM
42. Construction Document
Spandrel beam
EIFS
Sheathing
CD
43. 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.
Caisson
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
OSB
Admixture
44. Exterior Sheathing - Water resistant membrane - flashing with weep holes - self-adhering rubberized asphalt membrane - self-furring metal base - scratch coat - brown coat - finish coat.
PSL
AISC standard structural shapes
Plasticizers
Stucco - its components and layers
45. Metal panels consisting of polyurethane foam sandwiched between and bonded to two metal sheets - used in curtain wall applications.
Spandrel beam
Building Inspector's Process
LVL
Insulated metal panels
46. M = Least amount of lime; O = Most lime; N = Second most lime; S = Second least lime
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
AISC standard structural shapes
47. A thin layer of material over a back-up component.
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
AISC standard structural shapes
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Veneer
48. ...
Laminated glass
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Floating and Troweling
Stucco - its components and layers
49. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.
Suspended ceiling
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
reflective glass
50. 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
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
Veneer
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber