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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. 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






3. 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.






4. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. Cee Channel: Studs and joists - symbolized by S - Runner Channel: bridging channels - symbolized by you - Tracks: you shaped - symbolized by T






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






18. Construction Document






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






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21. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






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






24. Method of sawing a log by sawing in one or two directions only. The grain pattern varies from nearly parallel to the wide face to perpendicular. vs. A method of sawing lumber where the log is cut radially into four quarters and then sawed along radia






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






26. Construction Management






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. 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






41. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






42. 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.






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






44. A type of concrete foundation where one large - combined footing is used for several columns and load-bearing walls - often for the entire building. A concrete slab-on-ground used as foundation for light frame buildings is the simplest type of mat fo






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






46. A stuccolike exterior finish that includes a layer of foam insulation - fiberglass reinforcing mesh - and one or two coats of a polymer-based finish - also called synthetic stucco.






47. One-Way Slab: An elevated reinforced concrete slab where most of the load on the slab is carried to the supporting beams in one direction; a four-sided - supported rectangular slab whose length is greater than or equal to twice its width. Two Way Sla






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






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






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







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