WorksheetsCreating a Build Environment
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
What are the four main building systems?
Structural System
Shaping System
Envelope System
Mechanical System
Interior Systems
What is the structural System?
The system of shaping that keeps the building from collapsing
The Beams that help keep a building from falling apart
The system or framework of a building that acts like its skeleton.
The blueprint of a building
What is a building envelope/ envelope system?
A paper that signs an agreement between to people
The system that separates the exterior and interior environments.
The system that separates the upstairs from the downstairs
A letter that states who owns a building
What are the three subsystems of an envelope?
The Wall System
The Mechanical System
The Structural System
The Below-Grade System
The Fenestration System
What is the Wall system?
A system that provides support and compromises six basic layers(exterior, interior, drainage planes, air barrier, vapor, and insulation)
A system that includes all floors below ground level( Basements, Underground apartment systems etc)
What is The Below Grade System
A system that includes all floors below ground level( Basements, Underground apartment systems etc)
The system that refers to the window systems and exterior doors of a building.
What is the Fenestration System
The system that refers to the window systems and exterior doors of the building.
A system that includes all floors below ground level( Basements, Underground apartment systems etc)
The Roofing system is:
A system that makes a building more modern and attractive
A that makes a building look nice
A system that covers the building and helps regulate the interior temperature.
A system that keeps in touch with historical building styles
A buildings mechanical systems control the:
Air quality
Temperature
Fluids
Electricity
A design build is a:
A system in which teams identify each Activity with a predetermined code.
A project delivery method that includes three participants and two contracts.
What is a code system?
A system in which teams identify each activity with a predetermined code.
A system that includes all floors below ground level( Basements, Underground apartment systems etc)
What is a lump-sum contract?
A payment contract wherein the owner pays the contractor the predetermined cost of the project
A system that includes all floors below ground level( Basements, Underground apartment systems etc)
What is a Critical Path method?
A scheduling method where planners sequence activities for a stage and estimate the minimum time for each activity?
A payment contract wherein the owner pays the contractor the predetermined cost of the project
What is the Design-Build method?
The method of building Modern Homes
A contract between two people to build Towns
The Method of designing and Building old historic like Building
Involves a contract between two people. The owner and the person responsible for the construction
The construction Management Method(CM) Has:
Three participants(Owner, Architect, and Construction manager)
Two Contacts
Completes of all construction documents
Three Contacts
The lump-Sum Contract is when:
The owner pays the overall cost of a project and a fee
The owner pays the overall cost of the project
The cost-plus free contract is when:
The owner pays the contractor the overall cost and a additional fee
The owner only pays a fee
The owner pays the contractor only the overall cost
The owner pays nothing
What is a unit price Contract?
The owner spends a limited amount on every stage due to it not being possible to estimate the cost.
The owner spends the estimated cost plus fee
The owner only pays the estimated cost
What is the BIM software?
A software that allows the users to create digital replicas of buildings
A software that allows people to create replicas of things to see how durable they are
What is the CAD software?
A software that allows people to create and shape buildings
A software that Allows architects to create and manipulate designs
What does the NGBS Organization stand for?
National Green Building System
National Government Building Standard
National Green Building Standard
What is Leed?
A rating system
A building system
A Green System
ASTM Stands for?
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
The american Society for Testing Mammals
What is the acronym for The American National Standards Institute.
ANSI
TANSI
NAHB Stand for?
National Association Of Housing Builders
The National Association of Home Builders
