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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Cross Braces
Baluster
Surcharge
grade
2. The gathering of a gas - liquid - or dissolved substance on the surface or interface zone of another material. Advanced Waste Treatment (water) n Any process of water renovation that upgrades treated wastewater to meet specific reuse requirements. Ma
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Wasteline Cleanout
Infiltrated Debris
Adsorption
3. The movement or dislocation of underground soil or structure. Earth shift is usually caused by external forces such as surface loads - slides - stresses or nearby construction - water movements or seismic forces.
Earth Shift
open space
Runoff
Collection System
4. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
Walers
Sewer Main
Weir
Selector
5. A sewer that discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it. Sometimes called a 'street sewer' because it collects wastewater from individual homes.
Cross Braces
Forest Service
grade
Lateral Sewer
6. In landscape architecture - a study of the potential cost of site purchase - demolition and improvement in comparison to the income or other benefit to be derived from site development.
Deadend Manhole
cost-benefit analysis
Lift Station
Bedding
7. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Combined Sewer
Axial Load
ecology
CADD
8. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
open space
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
view
Interconnector
9. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
conservation plan
building (construction) permit
ground water
Storm Runoff
10. Subsurface water in the saturation zone from which wells and springs are fed. In a strict sense the term applies only to water below the water table. Also called 'phreatic water' and 'plerotic water.'
Sedimentation Basin
Groundwater
Newel Post
Collection System
11. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Surface Runoff
Artificial Groundwater Table
scenic easement
12. The change to an area's natural resources - including animal and plant life - resulting from use by man. Some projects may require conducting of an 'environmental impact study' before development can proceed.
environmental impact
Stratification
Selector
Lift Station
13. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
greenbelt
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
landscape architect
CADD
14. The precipitation that cannot be absorbed by the soil and flows across the surface by gravity. The water that reaches a stream by traveling over the soil surface or falls directly into the stream channels - including not only the large permanent stre
Surface Runoff
Balustrade
planning
Sediment
15. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Collection Main
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Manhole Vents
Rubble - Ordinary
16. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Balustrade
Combined Sewer
Storm Collection System
Cross Braces
17. Clarifier - Settling Tank. A tank or basin in which wastewater is held for a period of time during which the heavier solids settle to the bottom and the lighter materials float to the water surface.
land use
Sedimentation Basin
Day Tank
Curb inlet
18. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Bearing Wall
Aquifer
Sedimentation Basin
Manifold
19. A wastewater treatment process used to convert dissolved or suspended materials into a form more readily separated from the water being treated. Usually the process follows primary treatment by sedimentation. The process commonly is a type of biologi
Secondary Treatment
base plan
Check Valve
easement
20. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
conservation plan
Sediment
Axial Load
Hydrostatic Pressure
21. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Sewer
Invert
Axial Load
Wasteline Vent
22. A plan for conserving or protecting various natural or manufactured resources. Such a plan is used as a management tool in making decisions regarding soil - water - vegetation - manufactured objects and other resources at a particular site.
Aeration
Imported Backfill
Laundering Weir
conservation plan
23. A professional society that represents landscape architects in the United States and Canada and seeks to better the practice and understanding of landscape architecture through education - research - state registration and other programs.
Cross Braces
master plan
Vault
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
24. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Lateral Break
CADD
ground water
Adhesion
25. A chamber or well built at the curbline of a street to admit gutter flow to the storm water drainage system. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Curb inlet
Handhole Trap
Laundering Weir
Subsidence
26. A special valve with a hinged disc or flap that opens in the direction of normal flow and is forced shut when flows attempt to go in the reverse or opposite direction of normal flows.
Check Valve
Two-Way Cleanout
Pump Station
Easement
27. A professional who designs - plans - and manages outdoor spaces ranging from entire ecosystems to residential sites and whose media include natural and built elements; also referred to as a designer - planner - consultant. Not to be confused with lan
Liquefaction
Adhesion
landscape architect
view
28. Installation of pumps to lift wastewater to a higher elevation in places where flat land would require excessively deep sewer trenches. Also used to raise wastewater from areas too low to drain into available collection lines. These stations may be e
new town
national park
Pump Station
Lift Station
29. OE The pressure at a specific elevation exerted by a body of water at rest - or _ In the case of groundwater - the pressure at a specific elevation due to the weight of water at higher levels in the same zone of saturation.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
hardscape
Hydrostatic Pressure
Curb Stop
30. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
Roof Leader
Curb Stop
planning
conservation plan
31. The slope of a plot of land. Grading is the mechanical process of moving earth changing the degree of rise or descent of the land in order to establish good drainage and otherwise suit the intent of a landscape design.
grade
Imported Backfill
Catch Basin
land use
32. This landscape architecture specialization has evolved to encompass maintenance of a site in its present condition; conservation of a site as part of a larger area of historic importance; restoration of a site to a given date or quality; renovation o
landscape architect
historic preservation
Newel Post
Absorption
33. The dropping or lowering of the ground surface as a result of removing excess water (overdraft or overpumping) from an aquifer. After excess water has been removed - the soil will settle - become compacted and the ground surface will drop and can cau
Aeration
Subsidence
Septic Tank
Oxidation Ditch
34. A dimensioned drawing indicating the form of an existing area and the physical objects existing in it and those to be built or installed upon it.
Storm Collection System
site plan
Lateral Break
Axial Load
35. A system of gutters - catch basins - yard drains - culverts and pipes for the purpose of conducting storm waters from an area - but intended to exclude domestic and industrial wastes.
Aeration
Storm Collection System
parkway
Day Tank
36. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Baffle
Interconnector
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Roof Leader
37. Pertaining to groundwater - a well - or underground basin where the water is under a pressure greater than atmospheric and will rise above the level of its upper confining surface if given an opportunity to do so.
Rubble - Random
Artesian
Storm Runoff
landscape
38. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
base plan
Secondary Treatment
Two-Way Cleanout
Acidic
39. The protection - improvement and use of natural resources according to principles that will assure the highest economic or social benefits for people and the environment now and in the future.
CADD
Wastewater Facilities
master plan
conservation
40. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Water Table
Sewage
landscape
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
41. The science and art of design - planning - management and stewardship of the land. Landscape architecture involves natural and built elements - cultural and scientific knowledge - and concern for resource conservation to the end that the resulting en
Handhole Trap
landscape architecture
easement
Hydrostatic Pressure
42. The illustration and description of problem-statements and large-scale design solutions that affect extensive areas of land; the anticipation of problems that will be encountered as human use and development of land continues.
planning
site plan
cost-benefit analysis
zoning
43. Record of an area's natural and man-made resources - including vegetation - animal life - geological characteristics and mankind's presence in such forms as housing - highways and even hazardous wastes.
Sewage
environmental inventory
land use
Storm Runoff
44. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
hardscape
Terminal Manhole
Bearing
Newel Post
45. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
Seasonal Water Table
air rights
Chain of Custody
Settlement
46. Acronym for 'Computer Aided (i.e. - Assisted) Design and Drafting -' a digital design process in which landscape architects use computers to help produce precise drawings and details for the construction of a project.
Chain of Custody
CADD
Cistern
Check Valve
47. A sewer line that receives wastewater from many tributary branches and sewer lines and serves as an outlet for a large territory or is used to feed an intercepting sewer.
Manhole
conservation plan
Main Sewer
drainage
48. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Mail Line
Combined System
view
drainage
49. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
drainage
multiple use
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Backfill
50. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
built environment
planned unit development (PUD)
Admixture
environmental design professions