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Building Construction Management Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. 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.
SD
Caisson
EIFS
Wrought iron v. mild steel
2. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Spandrel beam
Engineered Lumber
Zoning Ordinance
3. 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.
EIFS
Building Inspector's Process
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Pressure Treated Lumber
4. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Pile and Pile Driver
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Insulated metal panels
5. 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.
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Tendons
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
6. 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 Parts of Construction Management
Engineered Lumber
Soldier Piles and Lagging
LVL
7. 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
Tie Backs
Zoning Ordinance
Backup wall
8. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.
Fire Resistance Rating
Insulated metal panels
Re-Shoring
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
9. 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.
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
Flex anchors
Strip Footing
Suspended ceiling
10. 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.
GFRC
Flex anchors
CM
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
11. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Mat Foundation
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
LVL
12. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.
Flex anchors
Strip Footing
Stone cladding
Mat Foundation
13. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.
DB
low-e coating
Stucco - its components and layers
Annealed glass
14. Exterior wall cladding system suspended from or supported by the structural frame of the building.
curtain walls
Wood Light Framing
Caisson
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
15. Construction Management
Soldier Piles and Lagging
CM
Slump Test
Joist
16. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.
CD
Stone cladding
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Tie Backs
17. Exterior Sheathing - Water resistant membrane - flashing with weep holes - self-adhering rubberized asphalt membrane - self-furring metal base - scratch coat - brown coat - finish coat.
Stucco - its components and layers
Plasticizers
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Tie Backs
18. A fastener that connects an exterior cladding to the supporting frame to resist lateral loads
PSL
Tie Backs
Building Inspector's Process
Backup wall
19. 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
20. 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.
curtain walls
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
21. 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
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
Re-Shoring
22. I - C - L - T - Pipes - Tubes - round - Rectangular bars - plates
Slump Test
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Insulated metal panels
AISC standard structural shapes
23. 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.
Fire Resistance Rating
EIFS
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
heat-soaked tempered glass
24. Design-Bid-Build
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
DBB
25. 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.
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Floating and Troweling
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Tendons
26. 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.
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
low-e coating
PSL
Glue-Laminated Lumber
27. Concrete: A composite material consisting of portland cement - coarse aggregate (crushed stone) - fine aggregate (sand) - and water.
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
DD
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
EIFS
28. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.
Joist
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
29. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.
Re-Shoring
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
DBB
OSB
30. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.
Tendons
Admixture
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
Dewatering
31. Exterior Sheathing - Water resistant membrane - flashing with weep holes - self-adhering rubberized asphalt membrane - self-furring metal base - scratch coat - brown coat - finish coat.
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Stucco - its components and layers
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
Engineered Lumber
32. 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.
LVL
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Glue-Laminated Lumber
33. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.
Zoning Ordinance
Joist
GFRC
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
34. 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.
Fire Resistance Rating
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Pile and Pile Driver
35. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.
tempered glass
Strip Footing
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Tendons
36. 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.
Admixture
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Glue-Laminated Lumber
Tie Backs
37. A type of glass made by adding a metallic pigment during manufacture.
Tinted glass
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
GFRC
SD
38. Concrete: A composite material consisting of portland cement - coarse aggregate (crushed stone) - fine aggregate (sand) - and water.
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Flex anchors
Annealed glass
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
39. Cee Channel: Studs and joists - symbolized by S - Runner Channel: bridging channels - symbolized by you - Tracks: you shaped - symbolized by T
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Caisson
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
40. 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
41. 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
tempered glass
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
Wood Light Framing
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
42. 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
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
Joist
AISC standard structural shapes
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
43. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
DD
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
44. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.
Fire Resistance Rating
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
SD
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
45. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.
Zoning Ordinance
low-e coating
Laminated glass
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
46. Differential: The building's foundation settles at different rates at different points. Uniform: The building's foundation settles at a uniform rate.
Plasticizers
Admixture
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Dewatering
47. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Fire Resistance Rating
EIFS
Sheet Piles and Shoring
48. 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
Floating and Troweling
Caisson
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Tie Backs
49. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
Insulated metal panels
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
50. Slender - closely spaced - parallel beams in a wood light (or light-gauge steel) frame floor.
Zoning Ordinance
Mat Foundation
Joist
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding