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Building Construction Management Vocab

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1. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






2. 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.






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






4. Truss: a structural member with triangulated - linear elements - typically used for large spans. Bottom Chord:






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






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






7. Design-Build






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






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






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. 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.






12. Advantages: High early strength Disadvantages: Very expensive






13. 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.






14. Cost - Schedule - and Quality






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Flat glass obtained by heating and then gradually cooling it to relieve internal stresses that develop during the early stage of its manufacturing process. Annealed glass is the basic form of flat glass.






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






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






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






21. Design-Build






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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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37. Use air-entrainment in the concrete mix






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






39. Schematic Design






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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