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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Schematic Design






5. 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.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.






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






23. Design-Build






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






30. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. ...






35. Construction Document






36. Shallow Foundation: Used for all types of buildings and bear directly on the upper soil levels. Deep Foundation: Used where soil on the surface does not have adequate strength or is unstable. Consists of piles or piers.






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






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






39. Design Development






40. Design Development






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






42. 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.






43. I - C - L - T - Pipes - Tubes - round - Rectangular bars - plates






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. Material added to concrete mix to influence its performance.






48. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






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






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