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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. Schematic Design






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






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






12. Construction Document






13. 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.






14. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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






20. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






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






23. Schematic Design






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






32. Snug-tight = hand tightened by a worker. Slip-Critical = hand tightened - then extra tightening to a certain tensile strength. Shear resistance is provided by the friction between the connected surfaces.






33. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. 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






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






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






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