Chapter 8: Building Layout - Know & Understand

True or False? Zoning ordinances often regulate the minimum property setback.

• True

• False

When establishing a building line with a measuring tape, use the _____ method to establish a square corner.

• 3-4-5

• Squaring

• Leveling

• Differential

An alternative method to checking a floor system or wall system for square.

• Squaring Method

• Diagonal Method

• Leveling Method

• Framing Method

An alternative method to checking a floor system or wall system for square, other than 3-4-5 method and Diagonal Method

• Squaring Method

• Pythagorean Theorem

• Leveling Method

• Framing Method

In residential construction, it is important that building lines be accurately established in relation to _____ lines.

• Building

• Lot

• Property

• Zoning

Staking a building starts with locating the _____.

• building lines

• setback lines

• property lines

• lot lines

Grade leveling is immediately useful to the _____, who must determine how much earth must be removed to dig a basement or trench a foundation footing.

• surveyor

• excavator

• builder

• architect

Who is typically responsible for the BIM (Building Information Modeling) program/process?

• surveyor

• drafter

• builder

• architect

What does BIM stand for in the construction idustrty?

• Building Information Management

• Building Information Modeling

• Buyers Inquisition Merger

• Builder Inequality Maintenance

The quality of being exactly perpendicular or vertical; at a right angle to the horizon or floor.

• Plumb

• Zoning Ordinance

• Lot

• Setback