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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.
Suspended ceiling
EIFS
Fire Resistance Rating
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant 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.
Engineered Lumber
reflective glass
Tendons
Building Code
3. Type 1: General Use - Type 2: -Type 3: High Early Strength - Type 4: Low Heat of Hydration - Type 5: Sulfate Resistant
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
Building Inspector's Process
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
4. Schematic Design
SD
heat-soaked tempered glass
Fire Resistance Rating
Wood Light Framing
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.
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Veneer
DD
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
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.
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
GFRC
Rafter
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
7. The combination of high-strength steel strands - sleeves - and end anchorages used for post-tensioning concrete.
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
low-e coating
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Tendons
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.
Slump Test
reflective glass
Wood Light Framing
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
9. A ceiling hung from the overlying floor or roof structure.
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Column Footing
Suspended ceiling
Admixture
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.
Re-Shoring
OSB
Column Footing
Caisson
11. A type of glass made by adding a metallic pigment during manufacture.
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Tinted glass
Column Footing
heat-soaked tempered glass
12. Metal panels consisting of polyurethane foam sandwiched between and bonded to two metal sheets - used in curtain wall applications.
Insulated metal panels
PSL
Annealed glass
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
13. Exterior wall cladding system suspended from or supported by the structural frame of the building.
Floating and Troweling
AISC standard structural shapes
curtain walls
Backup wall
14. Lumber that ranges from 2 in. to 4 in. thick. The actual dimensions are smaller than the nominal dimensions.
Spandrel beam
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Mat Foundation
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
15. Used where columns are lightly loaded or bear on soils with a high bearing capacity.
Column Footing
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
Flex anchors
Slump Test
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.
Fire Resistance Rating
heat-soaked tempered glass
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Re-Shoring
17. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
Floating and Troweling
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
CM
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
18. Slender - closely spaced - parallel beams in a wood light (or light-gauge steel) frame floor.
Bentonite Slurry Wall
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
CM
Joist
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
DD
Plasticizers
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
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.
CD
Hollow Core Slabs and Planks
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
Sheathing
21. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.
Zoning Ordinance
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Joist
Sheet Piles and Shoring
22. Load=bearing or non-load bearing wall to which exterior cladding is adhered or anchored.
Floating and Troweling
Fire Resistance Rating
Backup wall
The Three Phases of Construction Management
23. Design-Build
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
SD
DB
Dewatering
24. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Column Footing
LVL
heat-soaked tempered glass
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
25. A fastener that connects an exterior cladding to the supporting frame to resist lateral loads
Pressure Treated Lumber
Zoning Ordinance
Strip Footing
Tie Backs
26. Differential: The building's foundation settles at different rates at different points. Uniform: The building's foundation settles at a uniform rate.
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Mat Foundation
Dewatering
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.
PSL
EIFS
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
Engineered Lumber
28. A ceiling hung from the overlying floor or roof structure.
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Strip Footing
curtain walls
Suspended ceiling
29. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Backup wall
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Building Inspector's Process
Engineered Lumber
30. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases
The Three Phases of Construction Management
LVL
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
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
tempered glass
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Strip Footing
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.
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Rafter
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.
Sheathing
Soldier Piles and Lagging
GFRC
OSB
34. ...
Plasticizers
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
curtain walls
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
35. Construction Document
SD
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Insulated metal panels
CD
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.
GFRC
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
Bentonite Slurry Wall
37. Type 1: General Use - Type 2: -Type 3: High Early Strength - Type 4: Low Heat of Hydration - Type 5: Sulfate Resistant
Stucco - its components and layers
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
SD
38. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Pile and Pile Driver
AISC standard structural shapes
39. Design Development
CD
DD
Tinted glass
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
40. Design Development
Dewatering
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
DD
Building Code
41. Concrete: A composite material consisting of portland cement - coarse aggregate (crushed stone) - fine aggregate (sand) - and water.
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Backup wall
CM
Wood Light Framing
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.
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
Zoning Ordinance
Flex anchors
43. I - C - L - T - Pipes - Tubes - round - Rectangular bars - plates
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Re-Shoring
AISC standard structural shapes
Insulated metal panels
44. Two pieces of glass laminated under heat and pressure to a plastic interlayer to form a fused unit.
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
Laminated glass
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
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.
SD
Backup wall
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Zoning Ordinance
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.
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
Slump Test
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Pressure Treated Lumber
47. Material added to concrete mix to influence its performance.
LVL
Admixture
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
48. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
SD
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
tempered glass
49. Lengths of dimension lumber - glued and laminated together to create a structural member of a large cross section.
Glue-Laminated Lumber
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Sheathing
Column Footing
50. Stone panels attached to a backup wall or curtain wall frame.
low-e coating
DBB
Stone cladding
CD