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Building Construction Management Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
Stucco - its components and layers
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Building Code
2. 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.
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Contiguous Bored Concrete Piles and Secant Piles
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Stone cladding
3. Used where columns are lightly loaded or bear on soils with a high bearing capacity.
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Annealed glass
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Column Footing
4. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:
Admixture
Column Footing
Pressure Treated Lumber
Truss - Bottom Chord and Top Chord
5. A legal document that regulates the design and construction of buildings to ensure that the buildings meet minimum standards of health - safety - and welfare.
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Backup wall
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Building Code
6. Place where materials are stored on or near the project site.
OSB
Pile and Pile Driver
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
Dewatering
7. Design-Build
Slump Test
DD
DB
Joist
8. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
DD
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
9. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
LVL
Differential/Uniform Foundation Settlement
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
10. 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
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Mat Foundation
DB
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
11. 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.
Shallow vs. Deep Foundations
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
SD
12. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive
Backup wall
Advantages and Disadvantages of High Strength Concrete
Re-Shoring
Admixture
13. A test that measures the workability of fresh concrete by filling a cone-shaped mold with concrete - removing the mold - and measuring the height to which the concrete settles below its original height.
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
One-Way vs. Two-Way Slabs
Slump Test
Engineered Lumber
14. Cost - Schedule - and Quality
The Three Phases of Construction Management
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Bentonite Slurry Wall
15. 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
Zoning Ordinance
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Type I-V Concrete - and the Roles for Each
16. 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.
Laminated glass
OSB
GFRC
Laydown Yard/Staging Area
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.
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Annealed glass
Caisson
Strip Footing
18. Load=bearing or non-load bearing wall to which exterior cladding is adhered or anchored.
Insulated metal panels
Backup wall
Annealed glass
Bentonite Slurry Wall
19. M = Least amount of lime; O = Most lime; N = Second most lime; S = Second least lime
LVL
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
DBB
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
20. Draining the soil around the excavations so that the groundwater level falls below the elevation of proposed excavation.
Spandrel beam
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Dewatering
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
21. Design-Build
DB
Pressure Treated Lumber
The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
22. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.
Fire Resistance Rating
DB
CM
Building Code
23. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
GFRC
Stucco - its components and layers
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
24. A manufactured wood product rated for structural applications - such as plywood - oriented strandboard - or laminated veneer lumber.
Engineered Lumber
Tie Backs
LVL
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
25. 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
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
Fire Resistance Rating
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
26. 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.
Building Code
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Backup wall
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
27. Load=bearing or non-load bearing wall to which exterior cladding is adhered or anchored.
low-e coating
Backup wall
Rafter
Building Inspector's Process
28. Lumber that ranges from 2 in. to 4 in. thick. The actual dimensions are smaller than the nominal dimensions.
Zoning Ordinance
Flex anchors
Dimensional Lumber - and nominal vs actual dimensions
Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Members
29. Used where columns are lightly loaded or bear on soils with a high bearing capacity.
Pile and Pile Driver
Floating and Troweling
Column Footing
Tinted glass
30. 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.
Caisson
heat-soaked tempered glass
Zoning Ordinance
Fire Resistance Rating
31. 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.
Concrete Control Joints and Cold Joints
PSL
Fire Resistance Rating
Spandrel beam
32. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.
Flex anchors
Pressure Treated Lumber
Pile and Pile Driver
Caisson
33. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.
Flat-Sawn vs. Quarter-Sawn Lumber
Insulated metal panels
Re-Shoring
Soldier Piles and Lagging
34. Chemical compounds that are used in concrete mixes to increase the workability of the mix without reducing the slump.
The Three Phases of Construction Management
Plasticizers
Tinted glass
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
35. 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
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The role of lime in mortar and mortar types
Tie Backs
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Wood Light Framing
37. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix
Wrought iron v. mild steel
Building Inspector's Process
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Permanent Concrete Freeze-Thaw Protection
38. Fabricated at the manufacture's plant. Reinforced in both directions. Uses a steel stud backup wall.
Light-Gauge Steel Framing
tempered glass
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
Veneer
39. Schematic Design
Slip-critical v. snug-tight connections
Column Footing
SD
Rafter
40. A beam that spans between columns on the exterior face of a frame structure.
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
Spandrel beam
DB
Dewatering
41. Using concrete slab blankets or putting hot water in the concrete mix.
Suspended ceiling
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
42. Material added to concrete mix to influence its performance.
Flex anchors
Mat Foundation
Pressure Treated Lumber
Admixture
43. The combination of high-strength steel strands - sleeves - and end anchorages used for post-tensioning concrete.
Joist
Soldier Piles and Lagging
Slump Test
Tendons
44. Laminated Veneer Lumber: Dried wood veneers laminated in layers - all oriented in the same direction - to form a large structural member.
Friction vs. End-bearing Pile
Fire Resistance Rating
OSB
LVL
45. The ability of a building assembly to endure fire - measured in hours or minutes of time and determined from standardized full-scale tests.
heat-soaked tempered glass
Fire Safety Exiting Requirements
Fire Resistance Rating
Cee Channel - Runner Channel - Tracks
46. Used commonly for load-bearing wood - masonry - or concrete walls.
Cold Weather Concrete Construction Protection Measures
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
Strip Footing
OSB
47. 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.
Steps in Forming a Reinforced Concrete Wall
Pre-tentioning and Post-tentioning
Bentonite Slurry Wall
Concrete - its components - and their function in the mix
48. Slender - closely spaced - parallel beams in a wood light (or light-gauge steel) frame floor.
Joist
The Three Parts of Construction Management
Prefabricated v. site-built masonry cladding
Pressure Treated Lumber
49. ...
Rebar and Welded Wire Fabric (WWF)
Sump and Well Point Dewatering
Performance vs. Prescriptive Code Provisions
Precasting vs Site-Casting: Methods & Pros and Cons
50. A framing system that mimics wood light frame construction - but the elements are made of cold-formed - galvanized sheet steel.
Sheet Piles and Shoring
Prefabricated brick panel curtainwall
OSB
Light-Gauge Steel Framing