Construction Flashcards
A person or organization having the legal right or title to a piece of property, usually the architect’s client and party to the owner-architect agreement.
Owner
A per son or organization that invests in and develops the potentialities of real estate, especially by initiating and implementing building projects for ownership, management, or resale.
Developer
A person who engages in the profession of architecture, usually trained and experienced in the design and construction of buildings.
Architect
A person trained, skilled, or professionally engaged in any of various branches of engineering.
Engineer
Legally certified by a government or other constituted authority to engage in a business or profession in the state or jurisdiction in which a project is to be constructed.
Licensed or Registered
A person or organization hired to give professional or expert advice regarding a specific aspect of a project, such as acoustics or lighting.
Consultant
A person or organization that contracts to provide the materials and perform the work for a construction project at a specified time and rate.
Contractor
A person or organization that contracts directly with an owner to manage and supervise a construction project, including the work performed by subcontractors.
General Contractors
A person or organization that contracts with a general contractor to provide a portion of the work on a construction project.
Subcontractor
The insuring of propery, life, or one’s person against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved.
Insurance
Having a monetary commitment set aside to ensure that all obligations set forth in a contract are fulfilled
Bonded
The institution, usually a commercial bank, providing the long-term financing for a construction project.
Lending Institution
A person or organization that contracts with an owner to advise on and coordinate all phases of a building project, from evaluating the construction cost and feasibility of design decisions to managing the bidding, award, and construction phases of the project.
Construction manager
A person or organization that develops and constructs buildings for subsequent sale or lease.
Speculative Builder
Of or pertaining to an arrangement under which a person or organization contracts directly with an owner to design and construct a building or project.
Design-build
Of or pertaining to an arrangement under which a person or organization designs and constructs a building for sale or lease when ready for occupancy.
Turn-key
The process of building from site preparation through erection, assembly and finishing operations.
Construction
To install the highest structural member in a construction or complete the uppermost course in a masonry wall.
Top out
The temporary framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
Falsework
A temporary structure or platform for supporting workers and materials at a height above the floor or ground during the construction or repair of a building.
Scaffold or Staging
A detailed investigation and analysis conducted to determine the financial, technical or other advisability of a proposed construction project.
Feasibility Study
The competitive process of offering to perform the work described in a contract for a specified sum.
Bidding
A formal acceptance of a bid or a negotiated proposal.
Award
A legally enforceable agreement, usually in written form, between two or more parties to do or not to do something specified.
Contract
A written communication issued by an owner authorizing a contractor to proceed with the work and establishing the date of commencement of the work.
Notice to proceed
A written authorization to proceed with construction of a building project in accordance with approved drawings and specifications, issued by the local govenment agency having jurisdiction after plans have been filed and reviewed.
Building Permit
A person designated by a governmental authority to administer and enforce the provisions of a building code.
Building Official
To construc by the raising, positioning, fitting together and fastening of materials or parts.
Erect
A document issued by a building official certfying that all or a designated portion of a building complies with the provisions of the building code, and permitting occupancy for its designated use.
Certificate of Occupancy
The process of diagnosing the technical, functional and behavioral aspects of a completed building in order to accumulate information for future programming and design activities.
Postoccupancy Evaluation
Of or pertaining to project scheduling in which the design and construction phases of a building project overlap to compress the total time required for completion.
Fast Track
Critical Path Method: A method for planning, scheduling and managing a project, combining all releveant information into a flow chart, including the optimum sequence and duration of activities, the relative significance of each event, and the coordination required for timely completion of the project.
CPM
The manner in which materials are ordered, assepbled, and united into a whole, such as frame construction.
Construction
A construction process using a high degree of prefabrication in the manufacture of standardized units or components to speed assembly and erection of a building.
Systems Building or Industrialized Building
A prefabricated section of a floor, wall, ceiling or roof, handled as a single unit in the assembly and erection of a building.
Panel
A structural panel consisting of a core of relatively light material enclosed between two sheets of a high-strength material, generally resulting in a high stiffness-to-weight ratio.
Sandwich panel
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A structural panel consisting of plywood facings glued to lumber stringers, used as floor, roof, or wall member subject to bending. The plywood facings and stringers act as a series of I-beams with the plywood resisting nearly all of the bending stresses. Cross bracing may be placed to support the edges of the skin and to help distribute concentrated loads.
Stressed-Skin Panel
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To fabricate or manufacture beforehand, especially in standardized units or components for quick assembly and erection.
Prefabricate
To construct by assembling diverse and usually standardized parts.
Fabricate
The legal documents comprising a construction contract, including the owner-contractor agreement, conditions of the contract and the construction drawings and specifications for the project, including all addenda, modifications, and any other items stipulated as being specifically included.
Contract Documents
The construction drawings and specifications setting forth in detail the requirements for the construction of a project.
Construction documents
The part of the contract documents consisting of a detailed description of the technical nature of the materials, standards, and quality of execution of the work to be placed under contract.
Specifications