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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. 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.






2. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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.






9. Construction Document






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






11. Schematic Design






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. Design Development






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






35. Construction Management






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






42. Design Development






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






49. Construction Management






50. 10' - 15' discontinuous trenches are dug down to bedrock and filled with a bentonite slurry. Concrete is then pumped from the bottom up to create a waterproof wall for excavation pits.