CM 1112 - (Modules 1-2)

Module 3 coming later

A set of regulations intended to ensure a minimum standard of health and safety in buildings

Building code

A code that is offered by a recognized national organization as worthy of adoption by state or local governments

model building code

The predominant Canadian model building code

National building code of canada

The predominant U.S. model building codes

International building code (IBC)

A federal regulation establishing equal access for persons with disabilities to public accommodations, commercial facilities, and transportation facilities

Americans with disabilities act (ADA)

Formerly, American Society for Testing and Materials. An organization that promulgates standards for testing, materials, and methods of building construction

ASTM international

An organization that fosters the establishment of voluntary industrial standards

American National standards institute (ANSI)

The digital, three-dimensional modeling of building systems, with the linking of model components to a database of properties and relationships

Building information modeling (BIM)

The digital two-dimensional representation of building systems

computer-aided design (CAD)

A set of regulations or technical standards ensuring that buildings are accessible and usable by physically handicapped members of the population

Access standard

A comprehensive method of describing the environmental impacts of a material or product, accounting for all phases of its life from original resource extraction through final disposal or recycling; also called cradle-to-grave analysis.

Life-cycle analysis (LCA)/ Cradle-to-grave analysis

A life-cycle analysis extending from original resource extraction only so far as when the material or product leaves its place of manufacture

Cradle-to-gate analysis

The trademarked title of a uniform indexing system for construction specifications, created by the Construction Specifications Institute and Construction Specifications Canada.

Master format

The trademarked name for a system of organizing building information based on functional relationships.

UniFormat

The trademarked name for a system of describing building information encompassing a broad range of possible organizing criteria.

OmniClass Construction classification system

A method of providing design and construction services in which the design and construction phases of the project are provided by different entities, usually used in combination with sequential construction

Design/bid/build

A method of providing design and construction services in which the design and construction phases of the project are provided by a single entity; frequently used in combination with fast track construction.

Design/build

A graphic representation of a construction schedule, using a series of horizontal bars representing the duration of various tasks or groups of tasks that make up the project.

Gantt chart/bar chart

The sequence of tasks that determines the least amount of time in which a construction project can be completed.

critical path

Methods of construction and its management that emphasize efficiency, elimination of waste, and continuous improvement in quality.

Lean construction

Methods of construction and its management that emphasize efficiency, elimination of waste, and continuous improvement in quality.

Lean construction

A method of providing design and construction services in which design and construction overlap in time; also called phased construction.

phased construction/ fast track construction

A method of providing design and construction services in which each major phase of design and construction is completed before the next phase is begun.

sequential construction

A type of wood construction made from large wood members and solid timber decking in a post-and-beam configuration; in the International Building Code, buildings of Type IV HT construction, consisting of heavy timber interior construction and noncombustible exterior walls, which are considered to have moderate fire-resistive properties.

Heavy Timber construction

In the International Building Code, any of five major systems of building construction that are differentiated by their relative resistance to fire.

construction type

An entity that assists the owner in the procurement of construction services.

construction manager

A contractor who specializes in one area of construction activity and who works under a general CO2 tractor.

subcontractor

A construction entity with responsibility for the overall conduct of a construction project.

general contractor

The graphic construction drawings and written specifications to which a building is constructed.

construction documents

The written portion of the construction documents, concerning the quality of materials and execution of construction procedures required for a building.

specifications

Providing for the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to provide for their needs. Providing healthy, resource-conserving, and energy efficient buildings.

sustainability

Information or certifications used to describe the composition, environmental performance, or life-cycle impacts of a construction material or product.

environmental labels

A material or product's life-cycle, caused by greenhouse gas emissions

global warming potential

The total energy consumption associated with a material or product throughout its life cycle

embodied energy

The total freshwater consumption associated with a material or product throughout its life cycle

embodied water

The total carbon emissions associated with a material or product throughout its life cycle

embodied carbon

A law that specifies how land within a jurisdiction may be used

zoning ordinance

In the International Building Code, a definition of the types of activities that occur within the building or a part of the building, relating to considerations of life safety

occupancy

The time, in minutes or hours, that a material or assembly will resist fire exposure as determined by ASTM E119

fire resistance rating

A wall that carries structural loads from floors, roofs, or walls above

bearing wall

An interior nonloadbearing wall

nonbearing wall/partition

A small platform suspended on ropes from a steel building frame to permit ironworkers to work on a connection; a trowel with a slightly rough surface used in an intermediate stage of finishing a concrete slab; as a verb, to use a float for finishing concrete

float

Subsidence of various foundation elements of a building at differing rates

differential settlement

Rock or soil

Earth materials

Any particulate earth material, EXCLUDING rock

soil

Nonpermanent loads on a building caused by the weights of people, furnishings, machines, vehicles, and goods in or on the building.

Live load

Subsidence of the various foundation elements of a building at the same rate, resulting in no distress to the structure of the building. Unit-and-mullion system A curtain wall system consisting of prefabricated panel units secured with site-applied mullions.

uniform settlement

The portion of a building that transmits structural loads from the building into the earth.

foundation

Permanent loads on a building, including the weight of the building itself and any permanently attached equipment.

dead load

A solid stratum of rock

bedrock

A force on a structure caused by movement of the earth relative to the structure during an earthquake

seismic load

A force on a building caused by wind pressure and/or suction

wind load

The moisture content at which a soil arrives at a flowable consistency; a relative indication of soil cohesiveness.

Liquid limit

A soil such as clay whose particles are able to adhere to one another by means of cohesive and adhesive forces.

cohesive soil

Coarse-grained soil with a full range of particle sizes; also called poorly sorted soil

well-graded soil

A fine-grained soil with plate-shaped particles, typically less than 0.0002 inch (0.005 mm) in size, whose properties are significantly influenced by the structural arrangements of the particles and the electrostatic forces acting between them

Clay

A clay soil that expands significantly with increased moisture content

expansive soil

Soil containing decayed vegetable and/or animal matter; topsoil.

organic soil

A soil, such as sand or gravel, that relies primarily on friction rather than attractive or repulsive forces between particles for its strength; also called a cohesionless soil

frictional soil

cohesionless soil, Soil with particles 0.003 inch (0.075 mm) or less in size; silts and clays.

fine-grained soil

A phenomenon in which a water-saturated soil loses most of its strength under the influence of sudden, large variations in loading such as can occur during an earthquake

soil liquefaction

Soil with less than a full range of particle sizes

poorly graded soil

A special instance of a poorly graded soil in which the soil particles are mostly of one size

uniformly graded soil

A soil graded so as to contain a broad range of particle sizes, but with certain sizes omitted

gap graded soil

Course-graded soil with a full range of particle sizes; also called poorly sorted soil

poorly sorted soil

Soil with less than a full range of particle sizes.

well sorted soil

Soil with less than a full range of particle sizes

poorly graded soil

A special instance of a poorly graded soil in which the soil particles are mostly of one size

uniformly graded soil

Coarse-grained soil with a full range of particle sizes; also called poorly sorted soil

poorly sorted soil

Temporary vertical or sloping supports of steel or timber

shoring

Planks placed between soldier beams to retain earth around an excavation

lagging

Planks placed between Lagging beams to retain earth around an excavation

Soldier beams

The steepest angle at which an excavation may be sloped so that the soil will not slide back into the hole. Also called angle of repose

maximum allowable slope/angle of repose

The level at which the pressure of water in the soil is equal to the atmospheric pressure; effectively, the level to which groundwater will fill an excavation; a wood molding or shaped brick used to make a transition between a thicker foundation and the wall above

water table

A soil graded so as to contain a broad range of particle sizes, but with certain sizes omitted

gap graded soil

Crushed stone or gravel backfill materials with good drainage characteristics, placed around a foundation to facilitate drainage

drainage fill

A pit designed to collect water for removal from an excavation or basement

Sump

A horizontal beam used to support sheeting or concrete formwork

Waler

A sloping brace for supporting sheeting around an excavation

Raker

A tie, one end of which is anchored in the ground, with the other end used to support sheeting around an excavation

Tieback

A watery mixture of insoluble materials with a high concentration of suspended solids

slurry

A posttensioned rod or cable inserted into a rock formation for the purpose of tying it together

Rock anchor

Horizontal compression members running from one side of an excavation to the other, used to support sheeting

Crosslot bracing

The extraction of water from an excavation or its surrounding soil

Dewatering

A low-slump concrete mixture that is deposited by being blown from a nozzle at high speed with a stream of compressed air; pneumatically placed Concrète

pneumatically applied concrete/shotcrete

A large funnel with a tube attached, used to deposit concrete in deep forms or beneath water or slurry

tremie

The occupied belowground portion of a building.

substructure

A concrete surface lying upon, and supported directly by, the ground beneath.

slab on grade

Earth compacted into place in such a way that it has predictable physical properties, based on laboratory tests and specified, supervised installation procedures.

engineered fill

A building foundation that extends through upper strata of incompetent soil to reach deeper strata with greater bearing capacity

deep foundation

The above-ground portion of a building.

superstructure

The mineral waste that rises to the top of molten iron or steel or to the top of a weld.

slag

The depth in the earth to which the soil can be expected to freeze during a severe winter

frost line

A space that is not tall enough to stand in, located beneath the bottom floor of a building

crawlspace

A reinforced concrete beam castas part of a masonry wall, whose primary purpose is to hold the wall together, especially against seismic loads, or cast between a number of isolated foundation elements to maintain their relative positions.

tie beam

A building foundation located at the base of a wall or a column, bearing on soil relatively close to the ground surface

shallow foundation

a machine for driving piles

Piledriver (duh)

The forcing upward of ground or buildings by the action of frost or pile driving

heaving

A cylindrical sitecast concrete foundation unit that penetrates through incompetent soil to rest upon an underlying stratum of rock or satisfactory soil; an enclosure that permits excavation work to be carried out underwater. Also called a drilled pier.

caisson, drilled pier

A thick slab of reinforced concrete poured across the top of a pile cluster to cause the cluster to act as a unit in supporting a column or grade beam.

pile cap