This visual dictionary defines and provides pictures for various construction materials and components. It includes definitions for air barrier paper, soffit vents, ridge vents, gable vents, roof turbines, backhoes, batter boards, types of arches, centering, brick bonds, bulldozers, cladding materials, egress windows, stair requirements, control joints, isolation joints, concrete masonry units, exterior doors, transoms, sidelights, electrical components, framing elements, front end loaders, gypsum board, heat pumps, insulation materials, lintels, mortar joints, oriented strand board, plumbing fixtures, plywood, rebar, gutters, downspouts, splash

1. Visual Dictionary Travertine

4. Ridge Vent A ridge vent discharges air that enters through the soffit vent. It is designed to prevent snow or rain from entering.

5. Gable Vent Gable vent is designed to discharge air that enters through the soffit vent

6. Roof Turbine A roof turbine utilizes the wind to suck out air from the attic.

8. A backhoe’s purpose is dig holes or trenches or transport dirt from one spot to another with its swinging boom.

11. Centering Centering is a type of jig that assists in constructing an arch. It supports the arch until it is completed enough to support its own weight.

13. Brick Bond: Header

14. Brick Bond: Soldier

15. Brick Bonds: Sailor

16. Stretcher rowlocks No picture

20. Brick Clad Structure

21. EFIS clad structure

22. Stone clad structure Coursed ashlar pattern

23. Wood clad structure

25. Wood shingle: water resistant wood nailed in an overlapping pattern to create a watertight wall or roof.

27. Minimum height: 24”

28. Minimum area: 5.7 sq. ft.

29. Maximum sill height: 44”

31. Tread minimum: 10”

35. Decorative CMU: ribbed block

36. Exterior flush door No picture

38. Stile

39. Top Rail

40. Bottom Rail

42. Framing Elements #1 Anchor Bolt

43. Framing Elements #2 Sill plate

44. Framing Elements #3 Floor Joist

45. Framing Elements #4 Subfloor

46. Framing Elements #5 Sole Plate

47. Framing Elements #6 Stud

48. Framing Elements #7 Top Plate

49. Framing Elements #8 Ceiling Joist

50. Framing Elements #9 Rafter

51. Framing Elements #10 Roof Decking

52. Framing Elements #11 Sheathing

53. Framing Elements #12 Stringer

55. It is different from a bulldozer because it picks up the material instead of pushing it

57. Compressor/condensor Refrigerant gas is compressed to high pressure/temperature where it is cooled to generate cool air which is then blown throughout the house.

58. Air Handling Unit This air handling unit is exhausting air from a building while recovering much of the heat from the exhausted air and transferring it to the incoming air

60. Foamed Insulation Foam sprayed into cavities between studs to prevent the passage of air from one side of a wall to the other.

61. Rigid Board Insulation Comes in 4 by 8 sheets of polystyrene and is places on studs with fasteners to prevent the passage of air from one side of a wall to another.

62. Lintel A beam that carries the load of a wall across an opening

64. 3/8”

65. Used on new Student Center building

67. 3/8”

68. Used on Dudley

71. Water Closet 3” drain pipe

72. Bathtub No picture

73. Roof Plumbing Vent A system that removes gases produced by sewage and greywater waste.

74. Sink Integral Sink

75. Plywood Plywood: a wood panel composed of an odd number of layers of wood veneer bonded together under pressure. Veneer: a thin layer, sheet, or facing

76. Radiant Barrier No picture

80. Shingles Definition: A small unit of water-resistant material nailed in overlapping fashion with many other such units to render a wall or sloping roof watertight.

81. Shingled roof (not asphalt shingles) Metal

83. Gambrel Roof

84. Hip Roof

85. Mansard Roof No Picture

86. Ridge A level intersection of two roof lanes in a gable roof

87. Valley A trough formed by the intersection of two roof slopes.

88. Eave The horizontal edge at the low side of a sloping roof

89. Rake The sloping edge of a steep roof

90. Soffit The undersurface of a horizontal element of a building, especially the underside of a stair or a roof overhang

91. Fascia The exposed vertical face with an eave.

92. Building without fascia

93. Stone: Random, rubbled No picture

94. Stone: Rubbled, coursed

95. Stone: Ashlar, random

96. Stone: Coursed, ashlar

97. Vapor Retarder No picture