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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. Design Development






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members that extends from the ridge or the hip down to the downslope perimeter of the eave - designed to support the roof deck and its loads.






7. Schematic Design






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






9. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






15. A panelized material applied to the exterior surfaces of wood or light-gauge steel frame members to add rigidity to the frame and to serve as a base for (wall) cladding or roofing.






16. A surface coating that reflects most of the long-wave radiation.






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






18. 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






19. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






30. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






32. Construction Document






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Design-Build






38. 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






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40. 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






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






42. Construction Document






43. Design Development






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






45. A panelized material applied to the exterior surfaces of wood or light-gauge steel frame members to add rigidity to the frame and to serve as a base for (wall) cladding or roofing.






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






47. M = Least amount of lime; O = Most lime; N = Second most lime; S = Second least lime






48. A fastener that connects an exterior cladding to the supporting frame to resist lateral loads






49. A legal document that regulates the design and construction of buildings to ensure that the buildings meet minimum standards of health - safety - and welfare.






50. 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.