1. Manner in which materials are ordered, assembled and united into a whole based on standard construction techniques.

2. General term including all processes and materials used to assemble a complete building.

3. Numerical classification based on test method ASTM E84.

4. Sudden stress in a material as a result of abrupt change in temperature.

5. Reaction of materials when put together to form a composite material.

6. One of the oldest and most used building materials today.

7. Being the oldest building material.

8. Being the oldest manufactured material.

9. All wood in growing trees contains considerable quantities of water, commonly called ______.

10. Defects in lumber wherein there is an irregular growth in the body which interrupts smooth curve.

11. ________ is a distortion of the board in which the face is convex/concave longitudinally.

12. This is done in an airtight structure scientifically heated by a steam pipes in which the lumber is artificially dried to the correct moisture
content.
13. This type of building materials can be classified as a type of lumber as they are the by-product in the manufacture of lumber.

14. Refers to man-made units which are formed and hardened into modular building units.

15. Brick laid on its face with its end visible in the wall face.

16. Bond consists entirely of stretchers.

17. Cement tiles

18. Wrought iron strap

19. Slope

20. Cabinet hinge

21. Major elements of a building that may or may not be part of the primary supporting structure.
22. Construction Drawing Standards, P.D. 1096 Rule 1 Article_______– Architectural Documents
23. Process of transferring the building dimensions from 2-D plan drawings to 3-D physical quantities projected on the ground of the site.
24. Building construction that requires total extraction of the soil.
25. Platform structure of the building suspended by posts, columns, walls and beams.
26. Is a method of presenting by means of lines, marks, and symbols, buildings or part of buildings on a two dimensional surface
27. Refers to the type of line like straight line or long and short dashes
28. Formerly called the invisible or dotted line. It is composed of short dashes about 3-4mm long with gaps between dashes about 1-2mm
wide. It is used to represent the hidden edges of the object.
29. Also known as Plot Plan.
30. A drawing representing the projection of an exterior side of a structure on a vertical plane directly facing it.
31. Reveals the interior of the structure as projected on an imaginary vertical plane that passes through a given axis of the building.
32. An artificial stone as a result of mixing cement, aggregates and water.
33. A binding agent or glue, derived from the Latin word, “calmentum,” the name of a limestone
34. A finely ground siliceous material which, as such, does not possess cementitious property in itself, but reacts in the presence of water with
lime (calcium hydroxide) at normal temperature to form compounds of low solubility having cementitious properties.
35. Are inert materials that when bound together into conglomerated mass of Portland cement and water form concrete, mortar or plaster
36. The proportion of water to cement to control the strength of concrete.
37. A conglomeration of concrete materials producing solid mass.
38. A concrete with reinforcement embedded in such manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces
39. Check the amount of water placed in the mixture
40. Process applied in determining strength of concrete
41. To obtain a strong bond between concrete and steel, rebars are manufactured with surface deformation. Each has been run through a
machine at the steel mill that presses ridges into different patterns
42. A temporary boarding, or sheathing or pans used to produce the desired shape and size of concrete
43. They contain varying amount of carbon and not more than 1.65% manganese, 0.60% silicon, and 0.60% copper.
44. A steel metal with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
45. metal rod with a head at one end and a screw for nut at the other
46. Is also called “STAKING OUT” which means the process of relocating the point of boundaries and property line of the site where the
building is to be constructed.
47. Are wooden sticks used as posts sharpened at one end driven into the ground to serve as boundaries or support of the batter boards
48. Is usually done by excavating (digging) and transferring (moving) spoil to another place where it is piled up, spread out or used as fill
materials (disposing).
49. Are those constructions having independent footing and hollow block wall footing where the digging of the soil for the footing
50. Portion of the structural elements that carry or support the superstructure of the building.
51. Refers to the beam, girder and floor slab.
52. The upper part of a reinforced concrete floor, which is carried on beams below.
53. Structural members resting on supports at its end, which supports transverse loads. Usually horizontal but occasionally inclined or even
curved.
54. Beam composed of a wide plate (web) at the top and bottom of which are riveted angles and plates.
55. Its weight alone resists the thrust of the earth.
56. Makes use of the earth in resisting the tendency to overturn at the outer edge.
57. These are the three types of roof frame, except:
58. A structural frame generally supported only at both ends by columns, roof beams, or walls.
59. It refers to the roof portion that lies between two adjacent joints of the upper chord.
60. Considered as the art and science of installing pipes, fixtures and apparatus in buildings to convey water and other substances including
the discharge of waste, water and other liquids, gases and other ingredients affecting the health and sanitation of life and property.
61. A Latin word ___________ meaning lead.
62. A receptacle or vault used to collect organic waste discharge from the house sewer.
63. A public sewage disposal system consisting of a sewage treatment unit which conveys the raw sewage to the disposal system
64. Defined as the intensity of light per unit area.
65. A definite and complete statement, as in the contract. The precise method of construction.
66. Drawings indicate ___________.
67. Specifications indicate ___________.
68. Most often written by professionals, but occasionally they are done by advertising agency. Its general purpose is to sell their particular
product by presenting the best qualifications.
69. The meaning of CSI.
70. A comprehensive and well-defined organization of work items.
71. It is the art and science of designing and constructing structures.
72. From the Greek word that means builder, maker and craftsman.
73. A skyscraper almost as twice the size of the Empire State Building. Its concept is a city within a city, hosting its own hospitals, schools, and
a range of entertainment and retail options large enough to attract and keep the traffic necessary for the financial success of such an
endeavor.
74. The chief architect of the skyscraper on no. 23 that is from Foster and Partners.
75. All of these are the Design Spec of the skyscraper on no. 23, except:
76. Developed the rounded arch, barrel vault and hemispherical dome.
77. A curved slab which has been cut from a full cylinder. The slab is bounded by two straight "longitudinal" edges parallel to the axis of the
cylinder and by two curved "transverse" edges in planes perpendicular to that axis.
78. Another variation of lightweight tension structure. It is often used in combination with textile membranes, when the forces become too big
for the membrane alone to carry.
79. Element of a building that supports the building and provides stability
80. Element of a building which may include such subsystems as intercommunications, public address, and closed-circuit television, as well as
the more usual telephone-wiring systems.
81. Pre-fabricated section of a wall, floor, ceiling, or roof handled as a single unit in building assembly.
82. Suspended ceiling system of narrow metal strips, usually incorporating modular lighting and air handling components.

83. Suspended ceiling incorporating acoustical, lighting, and air handling components into unified whole
84. Translucent panels for diffusing light from luminous mounted above it.
85. Are used when soil of adequate bearing strength is found below surface layers of weak materials such as fill or peat.
86. All floors except for the ground floor are supported by a central utility core. Each floor is both connected to the core locally and attached to
the roof framing at the top of the core by hanging cables.
87. This type of floor system is adopted when the supporting beams are almost rectangular in floor plan.
88. Metal grid for supporting a suspended acoustical tile ceiling having rebutted joints.
89. ceiling of sound absorbing material such as cork, mineral fiber, glass fiber, metal pan, etc.
90. Membrane structure that separate the interior from the exterior area of a building. It is also a process of bonding materials together, to seal
the interior of a building from outside environment.
91. Utilizes boxlike prefabricated units, constructed off-site. Cranes lift the individual units into place, after which they are fastened together to
create a sturdy framework.

92. Elevators, especially high-speed, automatically controlled cable-operated elevators are the major form of _______________ in high-rise
structures.
93. Are used primarily in areas where near-surface soil conditions are poor. They are made of timber, concrete or steel and are located in
clusters. The piles are driven down to strong soil or rock at a predetermined depth, and each cluster is then covered by a cap of reinforced
concrete.
94. Are the first structural components installed in most construction projects.
95. Involves a network of columns, girders and beams, interconnected to provide strength and stability. For structures up to 40 stories high,
reinforced concrete, steel, or composite reinforced concrete and steel can be used in a variety of ways.

96. To construct by assembling diverse and usually standardized parts

97. A structural panel consisting of plywood facings glued to lumber stringers used in roof, walls, floor, members that are subject to bending
stresses.
98. Metal grid of tees supporting the acoustical of a suspended ceiling
99. Consists of small adjacent T-beam wherein the open spaces between the ribs are filled with clay tiles, gypsum tiles or steel forms.

100 Element of a building which supports all the imposed loads and transmits them to the foundation;