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2 - Construction Technology and Environmental Services Flashcards

1
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What are the two types of piling?

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  • Friction - forces through the surface of pile

- End bearing - forces through the toe of the pile

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What Environmental legislation are you aware of that relate to your area of practice?

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  • Building Act 1984 and building regulations
  • Part L - Conservation of Fuel and Power
  • Part F - Ventilation
  • Environment Act
  • Climate Change Act 2008
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What did the Environment Act do in the UK?

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  • Established the Environment Agency

- Placed duty on Secretary of State to create environmental policies

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4
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What are the key elements of a structure?

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  • Substructure foundations
  • Superstructure (main and secondary steel)
  • Envelope
  • Internal partitions
  • MEP Services
  • FF&E
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using concrete?

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  • Quick fabrication time
  • Can make nearly any shape
  • Fireproof
  • Less maintenance
  • Heavy
  • High carbon footprint
  • Slow and harder to erect
  • Not easy to modify
  • Quality problems in UK
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using steel?

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  • Quick erection
  • Recyclable
  • Common in the UK - long standing industry
  • Modifiable (to a degree)
  • Lighter
  • Not fireproof
  • High carbon footprint
  • Longer lead time
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What are the main components of a concrete floor?

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  • Subgrade
  • Granular grade
  • Rebar mesh
  • Concrete
  • Various membranes as required
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What are the main components of a mezzanine deck?

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  • Structure
  • Deck type - metsec, boarded, composite steel
  • Crinkly tin
  • Mesh and concrete
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9
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What is power floating?

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Using a machine to ensure a smooth, dense and uniform finish on a concrete surface

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What is the cladding detail used on your project?

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  • Composite panel
  • Attached to cladding rails via top hat detail
  • Cap sections put over to close gaps
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What is the roofing detail used on your project?

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  • Insulated metal roof panels fixed to the purlins
  • Capping detail to join the panels
  • Relevant details around the siphonics etc.
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What do you know about the Building Act 1984?

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  • Set out the building regulations

- Established the rights for local authorities to enforce these

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How does building regulations approval work?

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  • Via LPA or Approved Inspector
  • Full Plans submission via the LPA
  • Ultimately must obtain a Completion Certificate
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What is a curtain wall?

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Outer most part of a building which is not structural and so lighter materials can be used.

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What are the different types of foundation?

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  • Deep (piled)
  • Shallow
  • Pad
  • Raft
  • Ground beam
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16
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What are the different types of ground improvement methods?

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  • Compaction
  • Stone columns
  • Vitrification
  • Lime stabilisation
  • Soil nailing
17
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What different types of piling are you aware of?

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  • Precast driven
  • Steel tube driven
  • Screw piling
  • Vibro sheet piling
  • CFA piling
  • Contiguous and secant piling
18
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What different types of ground works are you aware of?

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  • Site clearance
  • Topsoil strip
  • Cut and fill or excavation to level
  • Compaction and consolidation
  • Battering
  • Foundation excavations
  • Stockpiling and balancing
  • Arisings disposal
19
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What type of ventilation system are there?

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  • Natural - Window, openings
  • Mixed Mode - Bit of both
  • Extract only - Kitchen
  • Supply and extract - German fire systems
  • HVAC - Treating an internal space
20
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What are the elements of an HVAC system?

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  • Heating element such as a furnace to heat air
  • Fans to circulate air
  • Ductwork, textile socks, diffusers etc. to distribute air
  • Cooling refrigerant to cool air
  • Extract and supply
21
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What is a packaged RTU?

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Has all the elements of an HVAC system in one unit

22
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What is an AHU and what does it do?

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Air handling unit. It effectively regulates air going in and out of a space and can manage heating, cooling, filtration etc.

23
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What HVAC systems do you have on the Basingstoke Project?

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  • Packaged rooftop units for the main warehouse

- VRFs in various parts of the offices

24
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What is a VRF system?

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  • Variable refrigerant flow system
  • Circulates only the refrigeration that is needed
  • Allows control of individual zones
25
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Who holds ground risk in a contract?

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  • Whoever owns the risk in the contract!
  • JCT is silent, so Contractor
  • NEC is usually Contractor, unless it is deemed that there was such a small chance of something happening that an experienced contractor would not have priced for it. Then it’s a CE.
26
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How does a sprinkler system work?

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  • Sprinkler tanks
  • Ring main
  • Manifold
  • Main sprinkler runs
  • Secondary sprinkler runs
  • Sprinkler heads - bulb that breaks
  • Jockey pump to keep pressure
  • Full pumps kick in
27
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What’s the standard make up of a road?

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  • Compacted sub base
  • Base course
  • Binder course
  • Wearing course
  • Line painting

May have sand layer or waterproofing if over a bridge deck

28
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How does concrete cure?

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Chemical reaction. Humidity and temperature must be maintained to achieve the required specification.

29
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What is concrete made of?

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  • Cement, aggregate and water

- Rebar

30
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What types of ceiling are there in the Basingstoke Project?

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  • Open
  • Semi-open
  • Suspended
31
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What is a heat pump and how does it work?

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  • Move heat from a cold place to a warm place
  • Air blown across coils holding refrigerant
  • Turns to vapour
  • Compressed, which increases heat massively
  • Then sent to coils indoors to release heat
  • Condenses and returns to initial coil
  • Can be both Air and Ground
32
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What’s the difference between a warm and cold roof?

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Warm - the roof space itself is insulated keeping it warm.

Cold - Insulation placed above the ceiling, not between the roof rafters. So roof is cold.

33
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What is the threshold for a waste management plan?

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£300k

34
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What is carbon offsetting?

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Compensating for carbon emissions by participating in schemes designed to make equivalent reductions.

35
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What is Net Zero

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Where we emit equal carbon to what we remove

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