Building Construction - 1

__1. Is the process of building, from site preparation through erection, assembly and finishing operations.
A. CLEARING B. SITE PREPARATION C. CONSTRUCTION D. DESIGN PROCESS

__2. The activities of the demolition of building and other structures. Clearing sites that includes grading,
landscaping, and constructing roads and siding of an area of ground where anything previously located
has been cleared to make the project site free of obstruction.
A. CLEARING B. SITE PREPARATION C. CONSTRUCTION D. DESIGN PROCESS
__3. Removal and disposal of trees, snags, stumps, shrubs, brush, limbs, and other vegetative growth.
A. CLEARING B. PUSH OVER C. CUT AND GRIND D. BURNING
__4. It is often involves the use of major construction equipment. Trees are pushed over and hauled off
the land with the roots intact.
__5. It begins with cutting down the trees, but the stumps are left inground.
__6. It involves starting a controlled fire and maintaining that fire until all trees and brush are burned to
the ground.
__7. It refers to the removal of roots that may remain in soil.
A. CLEARING B. PUSH OVER C. CUT AND GRIND D. GRUBBING
__8. It refers to the removal and disposal of all organic sod, topsoil, grass and grass roots, and other
objectionable material remaining after clearing and grubbing from the areas designated to be stripped. A.
CLEARING B. STRIPPING C. CUT AND GRIND D. GRUBBING
__9. It is the most important and commonly used machine for large projects used for levelling and
clearing land.
A. BULLDOZER B. BACKHOE LOADER C. EXCAVATOR D. SCRAPER
__10. It is an eco-friendly piece of equipment that uses attachments to cut down bushes and trees and
level ground without damaging the landscape.
A. BULLDOZER B. BACKHOE LOADER C. EXCAVATOR D. MULCHER
__11. It is a heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket, and cab on a rotating
platform known as the “house”.
__12. It is a machine for moving earth over short distances (up to about 2 miles) over relatively smooth
areas.
__13. Hydraulically forward and the load tumbles out. It can transport its load to the fill area where the
blade is raised, the back panel of the hopper, or the ejector, is?
A. BULLDOZER B. LOADER C. EXCAVATOR D. SCRAPER
__14. It is used in construction to move aside or load materials such as asphalt, demolition debris, dirt,
snow, feed, gravel, logs, raw minerals, recycled material, rock, sand, woodchips, etc. into or onto another
type of machinery.
A. BULLDOZER B. EXCAVATOR C. LOADER D. SCRAPER
__15. It is a piece of excavating equipment or larger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-
part articulated arm.
A. BULLDOZER B. BACKHOE LOADER C. LOADER D. SCRAPER
__16. It locate the boundaries of the structure to be built and is denoted with physical markers, usually a
lathe, pin, or survey stake in a horizontal position.
A. BATTER BOARDS B. BUILDING STAKEOUT C. 3-4-5 METHOD D.
SURVEYING
__17. It refers to locating and staking of the main horizontal control points of the building.
SURVEYING
__18. It is often use for squaring corners and ensure that the projects they are building has a precise 90-
degree angle.
SURVEYING
__19. It is the suitable marks placed for use as references or guides during the initial excavation and
rough grading of a building construction and/or a sewer line stakeout.
SURVEYING
__20. It is used to analyze the deformations of and flow of fluids within natural and manmade structures
that are supported on or made of soil, or structures that are buried in soils.
A. GRAIN SIZE B. GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION C. WELL-GRADED SOIL D.
SOIL MECHANICS
__21. It is a property of the coarseness of agranular soil material.
SOIL MECHANICS
__22. It is the relative proportions of particles of various sizes.
SOIL MECHANICS
__23. It is the sands and gravels that possess a wide range of particle sizes with a smooth distribution of
particle sizes.
SOIL MECHANICS
__24. It is the soil with relatively same sized particles or are predominantly in a narrow range of sizes.
A. GRAIN SIZE B. GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION C. UNIFORMLY GRADED SOIL
D. GAP GRADED SOIL
__25. It is a mixture of gravel and fine sand, with no coarse sand.
A. GRAIN SIZE B. GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION C. UNIFORMLY GRADED SOIL
D. GAP GRADED SOIL
__26. It is the soil classification system used in engineering and geology to describe the texture and grain
size of a soil.
A. UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
B. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS
C. AASHTO SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
D. ASTM SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
__27. It is the method used for the purpose where a hole is bored on the ground.
A. UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
B. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS
C. AUGER BORING METHOD
D. WASH BORING METHOD
__28. It refers to a truck mounted driving rift turns the auger to a depth of more than 60meters using
continuous flights of auger with a hollow stem where samples of soil can be retrieved.
A. AUGER BORING METHOD B. HOLLOW STEM AUGER BORING METHOD
C. ROTARY DRILLING D. PERCUSSION DRILLING METHOD
__29. It is employed as one of the most efficient and convenient method of soil sample retrieval method
and used for soil structure characterized by high resistant materials such as rock, clay, as well as sand.
__30. It is sometimes called Cable tool drilling method, used when boring or auger method is not possible
due to difficulty in penetration of soil especially hard soil strata.
__31. It is the device used to investigate the consistency of cohesive deposit or relative density of
cohesionless strata without the necessity of drilling and obtaining samples.
A. PENETROMETER B. DUTCH CONE PENETRATION METHOD
C. STANDARD LOAD TEST D. VANE SHEAR TEST
__32. It is a 60-degree cone with a base area of 100 sq.mm.is used in this method.
C. VANE SHEAR TEST D. STANDARD LOAD TEST
__33. It is the device for shear testing clay soil in place consists of four vertical rectangular blades at right
angles to vertical shaft.
C. STANDARD LOAD TEST D. VANE SHEAR TEST
__34. It refers to the load on top of the plate must be placed on the pit bed and a platform loaded with
concrete blocks or bags of cement on top must be provided.
A. ACTIVE SOIL PRESSURE B. LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE
C. STANDARD LOAD TEST D. PASSIVE SOIL PRESSURE
__35. It is used to estimate the amount of stress soil can exert perpendicular to gravity or the stress
exerted on retaining walls.
__36. It refers to the horizontal component of resistance developed by a soil mass against the horizontal
movement of a vertical structure through the soil.
__37. It refers to the horizontal component of pressure that a soil mass exerts on a vertical retaining wall.
__38. It is the average contact stress between a foundation and the soil which will cause shear failure in
the soil.
A. ALLOWABLE BEARING STRESS B. BEARING CAPACITY
C. EARTHWORKS D. GRADING
__39. It refers to the bearing capacity divided by a factor of safety, used to determine the maximum
allowable settlement of soil under foundation loads.
A. ALLOWABLE BEARING STRESS B. BEARING CAPACITY
__40. It refers to the analysis of the static and dynamic stability of slopes or earth and rock-fill. Usually
considered in the building of dams, embankments and slope excavations.
A. SLOPE STABILITY B. BEARING CAPACITY
__41. It is the engineering works created through the moving and/or processing of quantities of soil or
unformed rocks.
A. SLOPE STABILITY B. BEARING CAPACITY C. EARTHWORKS D. GRADING
__42. It refers to the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work
such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway or landscape and garden improvements, or
surface drainage.
A. SLOPE STABILITY B. BEARING CAPACITY C. EARTHWORKS D. GRADING
__43. It is the maximum height at which a vertical cut in a cohesive soil will stand without shoring.
A. ANGLE OF REPOSE B. ANGLE OF SLIDE C. CRITICAL HEIGHT D. SOIL
STABILIZER
__44. It is the maximum slope, measured in degrees from the horizontal, at which loose solid material
will remain in place without sliding.
STABILIZER
__45. It is the minimum slope, measured in degree from the horizontal, at which loose solid material will
begin to slide or flow.
STABILIZER
__46. It refers to the chemical admixture for maintaining or increasing the stability of a soil mass.
STABILIZER
__47. It refers to a plat that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense
network of roots that hold the soil.
A. SOIL BINDER B. BIN WALL C. CRIBBING D. RIPRAP
__48. It refers to the layer of broken stones thrown together irregularly on an embankment slope to
prevent erosion.
A. SOIL BINDER B. BIN WALL C. CRIBBING D. RIPRAP
__49. It is to face a slopping surface or embankment with stone or other material.
A. BIN WALL B. RIPRAP C. REVET D. REVETMENT
__50. It is a facing of masonry or other suitable material for protecting an embankment against erosion.
A. BIN WALL B. RIPRAP C. REVET D. REVETMENT
__51. It is a cellular framework of square steel, concrete, or timber members, assembled in layers at right
angles, and filled with earth or stones.
A. BIN WALL B. CRIBBING C. GABIONS D. RETAINING WALLS
__52. It is a type of gravity retaining wall formed by stacking modular, interlocking precast concrete units
and filling the voids with crushed stone or gravel.
__53. It is a galvanized or PVC-coated wire baskets filled with stones and stacked to form an abutment or
retaining structure, or as riprap to stabilize an embankment.
__54. It refers to a structure designed and constructed to resist the lateral pressure of soil when there is a
desired change inground elevation that exceeds the angle of repose of the soil.
A. BIN WALL B. CRIBBLING C. GABIONS D. RETAINING WALLS
__55. It is a masonry or concrete retaining wall that resists overturning and sliding by the sheer weight
and volume of its mass.
A. ANCHORED WALL B. GRAVITY WALL C. CANTILEVERED WALL D. PILING
WALL
__56. It refers to a retaining wall of reinforced concrete masonry, cantilevered from and securely tied to a
spread footing that is shaped to resist overturning and sliding.
WALL
__57. It is used in soft and tight spaces.
WALL
__58.It is a vertical retaining walls supported by an anchor, or dead weight, fixed in the ground on the
uphill side and tied by a cable, chain, or rod, which may be inserted into the ground by boring or by
mechanical means often by injecting pressurized concrete, which expands to form a bulb in the soil.
A. ANCHORED WALL B. GRAVITY WALL C. CANTILEVERED WALL D.
PILING WALL
__59. It refers to the retaining wall consisting of precast concrete panels fastened to long galvanized steel
straps extending into a compacted soil backfill.
A. BUTTRESSED RETAINING WALL B. COUNTERFORT RETAINING WALL
C. EARTH TIEBACK WALL D. HELICAL TIEBACK WALL
__60. It has thin vertical slabs, known as counterfort, spaced across the vertical stem at regular intervals
equals to ½ the wall height.
__61. It is similar to counterfort retaining wall in which counterfort, called as buttresses are provided on
the opposite side of the backfill and act as compression struts.
__62. It is also called as “groundsill”. It is a structure that transfers loads to the earth.
A. FOUNDATION B. DEEP FOUNDATION C. FOOTINGS D. SHALLOW
FOUNDATION
__63. It is employed when stable soil of adequate bearing capacity occurs relatively near to the ground
surface.
A. FOUNDATION B. DEEP FOUNDATION C. FOOTINGS D. SHALLOW FOUNDATION
__64. It is employed when the soil pressure underlying a foundation is unstable or of inadequate soil to
transfer building loads to a more appropriate bearing stratum of rock or dense sands and gravels well
below the superstructure.
A. FOUNDATION B. DEEP FOUNDATION C. FOOTINGS D. SHALLOW FOUNDATION
__65. It is the lowest part of a shallow foundation. They are extended laterally to distribute their load over
an area of soil wide enough that the allowable bearing capacity of the soil is not exceed.
A. FOUNDATION B. DEEP FOUNDATION C. SPREAD FOOTINGS D. SHALLOW
FOUNDATION
__66. It refers to the continuous spread footings of foundation walls.
A. STEPPED FOOTINGS B. ISOLATED FOOTINGS C. STRIP FOOTINGS D. SQUARE
SLOPED FOOTINGS
__67. It refers to the individual spread footings supporting freestanding columns and piers.
SLOPED FOOTINGS
__68. It refers to a type of isolated footing having inclined top, sloping towards the edge.
SLOPED FOOTINGS
__69. It refers to the footings that are stacked upon one another as steps; by and large three concrete
cross-sections are stacked upon each other to create steps; also called as “pedestal footing
A. STEPPED ISOLATED FOOTINGS B. STEPPED STRIP FOOTINGS
C. RECTANGULAR FOOTINGS D. SQUARE SLOPED FOOTINGS
__70. It refers to a footing rectangular in plan and supporting load of unequal magnitudes in both axes.
__71. It refers to a continuous or strip footing that changes levels in stages to accommodate a sloping site
or bearing stratum and maintain the required depth at all points around a building with the center having
the thickest part of the building.
__72. It refers to a reinforced concrete footing extended to support a row of columns.
A. CONTINUOUS FOOTINGS B. COMBINED FOOTINGS
C. RECTANGULAR COMBINED FOOTINGS D. TRAPEZOID COMBINED FOOTINGS
__73. It refers to a reinforced concrete footing for a perimeter column or foundation wall extended to
support an interior column load.
__74. It refers to a type of combined footing rectangular in plan and supporting two columns; column
loads assumed to be of same magnitude.
__75. It refers to a column loads are assumed to be of unequal magnitude.
C. RECTANGULAR COMBINED FOOTINGS D. TRAPEZOIDAL COMBINED FOOTINGS
__76. It refers to the reinforced concrete beam supporting a bearing wall at or near the ground level and
transferring the load to isolated footings, piers, or piles; also called ground beam or tie beam.
A. CANTILEVER FOOTING B. GRADE BEAMS
C. FOOTINGS TIE BEAM D. MAT FOUNDATION
__77. It refers to a type of beam-like footing, placed underneath the ground in order to transmit and
provide additional rigidity to two or more columns.
__78. It refers to a reinforced concrete footing connected by a tie beam to another footing in order to
balance an asymmetrically imposed load, as at the perimeter of a building site; also called as strap footing
or connected footing
__79. It refers to a thick, slab-like heavily reinforced concrete footing supporting a number of columns or
an entire building.
__80. It refers to a mat foundation reinforced by a grid of ribs above or below the slab.
A. CELLULAR MAT B. RAFT FOUNDATION
C. RIBBED MAT D. GRILAGE/GRID FOUNDATION
__81. It refers to a composite structure of reinforced concrete slabs and basement walls serving as a mat
foundation.
__82. It refers to a mat providing a footing on yielding soil usually for an entire building, placed so that
the weight of the displaced soil exceeds the weight of the construction.
__83. It refers to a framework of crossing beams for spreading heavy loads over large areas.
__84. It refers to a foundation system that extends down through unsuitable or unstable soil to transfer
building loads to a more appropriate bearing stratum of rock or dense sands and gravels well below the
superstructure.
A. DEEP FOUNDATION B. FLOATING FOUNDATION C. PILE
D. SUPERSTRUCTURE
__85. It refers to the part of the building which is above the level of the adjoining ground or the level of
the foundation.
A. SUB STRUCTURE B. FLOATING FOUNDATION C. PILE D.
SUPERSTRUCTURE
__86. It refers to the underlying structure forming the foundation of a building or other construction.
A. PILE B. PILE FOUNDATION C. SUBSTRUCTURE D.
SUPERSTRUCTURE
__87. It refers to the system of end-bearing or friction piles, pile caps, and the beams for transferring
building loads down to a suitable bearing stratum, used esp. when the soil mass directly below the
construction is not suitable for the direct bearing of footings.
A. PILE B. PILE FOUNDATION C. SUBSTRUCTURE D.
SUPERSTRUCTURE
__88. It refers to a long slender column of wood, steel, or reinforced concrete, driven or hammered
vertically into the earth to form part of a foundation system.
A. PILE B. END BEARING PILE C. PILE CAP D. TIMBER PILE
__89. It refers to a pile depending principally on the bearing resistance of soil or rock beneath its foot for
support; the surrounding soil mass provides a degree of lateral stability for the long compression member;
also called point bearing pile.
A. END BEARING PILE B. PILE CAP C. FRICTION PILE D. TIMBER PILE
__90. It refers to a pile that depends principally on the frictional resistance of surrounding earth for
support.
__91. It refers to a footing-like member which joins the heads of a cluster of piles in order to distribute
the load from a column or grade beam equally among the piles.
__92. It is a log driven usually as a friction pile, often fitted with a steel shoe and a drive band to prevent
their shafts from splitting or shattering.
__93. It is a pile constructed of two materials, as a timber pile having a concrete upper section to prevent
the portion of the pile above the water table from deteriorating.
A. PRECAST CONCRETE PILE B. PIPE CAP C. COMPOSITE PILE D. H- PILE
__94. It is a pile sometimes encased in concrete to a point below the water table to prevent corrosion.
A. PRECAST CONCRETE PILE B. CASED PILE C. COMPOSITE PILE D. H- PILE
__95. It is a heavy steel pipe driven with the lower end either open or closed by a heavy steel plate or
point and fitted with concrete.
A. PRECAST CONCRETE PILE B. PIPE PILE C. COMPOSITE PILE D. H- PILE
__96. It has a round, square, or polygonal cross section and sometimes an open core; often prestressed.
A. PRECAST CONCRETE PILE B. CAST-IN PLACE CONCRETE PILE
C. COMPOSITE PILE D. CASED PILE
__97. It is constructed by placing concrete into a shaft in the ground.
A. CAST-IN PLACE CONCRETE PILE B. CASED PILE C. CASING D.
MANDREL
__98. It is a pile constructed by driving a steel pile or casing into the ground until it meets the required
resistance and then filling it with concrete.
A. UNCASED PILE B. CASED PILE C. CASING D. MANDREL
__99. It is a cylindrical steel section, sometimes corrugated or tapered for increased stiffness, driven or
dropped in place to serve as a form for a cast-in-place concrete pile.
A. CAST-IN PLACE CONCRETE PILE B. CASED PILE C. CASING D. MANDREL
__100. It is a heavy steel tube or core that is inserted into a thin-walled casing to prevent it from
collapsing in the driving process, and then withdrawn before concrete is placed in the casing.
A. BULB B. CASED PILE C. PEDESTAL PILE D. MANDREL

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A. CLEARING B. SITE PREPARATION C. CONSTRUCTION D. DESIGN PROCESS

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