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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.






2. A beam that spans between columns on the exterior face of a frame structure.






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






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.






5. Construction Document






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






7. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.






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






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






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.






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.






12. Design Development






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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.






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.






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






18. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






19. Design-Build






20. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.






21. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.






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.






23. Schematic Design






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






25. Exterior wall cladding system suspended from or supported by the structural frame of the building.






26. A framing system that mimics wood light frame construction - but the elements are made of cold-formed - galvanized sheet steel.






27. Differential: The building's foundation settles at different rates at different points. Uniform: The building's foundation settles at a uniform rate.






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






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.






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






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






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






33. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.






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






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






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.






37. Construction Management






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.






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.






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






42. Design-Bid-Build






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






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






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.






46. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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.






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.






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






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