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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. Construction Management






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






3. 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.






4. Design Development






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






18. The combination of high-strength steel strands - sleeves - and end anchorages used for post-tensioning concrete.






19. 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.






20. 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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






27. 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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. Design-Bid-Build






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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






43. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






44. 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.






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






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. 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






48. Wrought iron is corrosive resistant - time consuming to make - and contains about .02% carbon. VS. Mild Steel contains .1-2.5% carbon and is much stronger and easier to make.






49. One-Way Slab: An elevated reinforced concrete slab where most of the load on the slab is carried to the supporting beams in one direction; a four-sided - supported rectangular slab whose length is greater than or equal to twice its width. Two Way Sla






50. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.