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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. 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.






2. Design Development






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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


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






7. 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.






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






9. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






10. 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.






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






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






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






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15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. Design-Bid-Build






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






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






42. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.






43. 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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. 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






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