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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. 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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. Design-Bid-Build






10. 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.






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






12. Sheet steel that is hot-dip galvanized.






13. Schematic Design






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






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






16. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. Pre-Construction - Construction - and Post-Construction Phases






28. 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.






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






31. 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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32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






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






46. Design-Build






47. 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.






48. 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






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






50. Design-Build