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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






3. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.






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






5. 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.






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






7. Construction Management






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. Construction Document






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






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






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15. Metal panels consisting of polyurethane foam sandwiched between and bonded to two metal sheets - used in curtain wall applications.






16. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






17. Construction Management






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






19. 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






20. A type of glass made by adding a metallic pigment during manufacture.






21. 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






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






23. 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.






24. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






28. Design-Bid-Build






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. A glass that reflects incoming visible radiation due to a very thin metal oxide coating on one side.






36. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.






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






38. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






44. 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






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






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47. Place where materials are stored on or near the project site.






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






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






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