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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






2. 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.






3. Pile: Driven or drilled long - slender foundation element. Pile: a piece of machinery used to drive piles into the ground.






4. 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.






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






6. Design-Build






7. A document that describes regulations for the use of land in a particular jurisdiction.






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






14. Design Development






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






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






17. Construction Document






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. Design-Bid-Build






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






22. 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






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






24. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.






25. Shoring placed under concrete to support it while it cures.






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






27. 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.






28. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






33. A legal document that regulates the design and construction of buildings to ensure that the buildings meet minimum standards of health - safety - and welfare.






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






35. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






36. ...






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






38. Design-Build






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






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






41. 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.






42. Construction Management






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.







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