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Building Construction Management Vocab

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






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






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






4. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. Exterior Sheathing - Water resistant membrane - flashing with weep holes - self-adhering rubberized asphalt membrane - self-furring metal base - scratch coat - brown coat - finish coat.






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






9. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






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






11. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Construction Document






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






31. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






32. Design Development






33. 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.






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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






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






39. ...






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. Include the width and height of the exit enclosures - fire resistance of materials used therein - and illumination levels in the exit enclosures.