1. EPDM

2. A sheet material used as
both a vapor retarder and
an air barrier.
Essentially the air barrier
paper is keeping the
cracks where the
sheathing is joined
sealed from liquid water
and wind seeping
through. This is
permeable for water
vapor.

3. Soffit Vent
An opening under the eave of the roof used to allow air to
flow into the attic or the space below the roof sheathing.

4. Roof Turbine
Provides attic ventilation by the spinning motion
produced by the turbine. Air is removed through the
turbine

5. Ridge Vent
A long open assembly
that allows air to circulate
in and out of a gable roof
at the ridge.

6. Gable Vent
A screened louvered
opening in a gable
used for exhausting
excess heat and
humidity from an attic

7. An excavator whose bucket is rigidly
attached to a hinged pole on the
boom and is drawn backward to the
machine when in operation. Typically
used for excavating and digging
shallow foundations. The width of
the bucket is 23 inches.

8. A temporary frame built
just outside the corner of
an excavation to carry
marks that lie on the
surface planes of the
basement what will be
built in the excavation.
They help line up the
placement of the
foundation by tying
strings that run parallel
to the foundation edge.

9. JACK ARCH

10. TUDOR ARCH

11. Roman Arch with
Keystone

12. Centering
This is a
temporary
structure that is
used to place
masonry units
or brick in a
arch form.

13. This is known as a Flemish
This is known as a common bond. The brick are laid in
bond. Typically there is a an alternating pattern
course of headers every five between headers and
courses of stretchers stretchers.

14. ROWLOCK
Header

15. Stretcher Rowlock (Shiner)
Soldier

16. Sailor

17. 3 ½ x 3 ½ x 11½ 3½x2¼x7½
Utility Brick Modular Brick

18. A bulldozer is a tracked

vehicle with a large steel
plate.
It is used for pushing

large quantities of
soil, sand, rubble, etc.
during construction
work

19. Brick Clad
Building

20. Wood
Board

21. Wood Shingles
These are strips
of wood that
are nailed in an
overlapping
pattern on the
side of a
building.

22. Stone
Cladding
This is a
coursed
rubble home.

23. EIFS

24. Dimensions
Width:26” or 2’-2”
Height: 35” or 2’-11”
Sill Height:19” or 1’-7”
Area:6.33 sqft
IBC Requirements
Min Width:20” or 1’8
Min Height:24” or 2’-0”
Max Sill Height:44”
Area: 5.7 sqft
This window satisfies the code
requirements because the area of
the window is greater than the
required minimum and the
dimensions of the opening are
greater than the required minimum.

25. Riser length 6 ½”
IBC Riser Min: 4”
IBC Riser Max:7 ¾”
Tread : 12”
IBC Tread Min.11”
IBC Tread Max:None
This stair meets
code because the
riser and tread
dimensions are
above the minimum
IBC requirements
and below the
maximum
requirements

26. Control Joints
-Joint in a structure
designed to form a plane
of weakness where
cracking can occur so to
eliminate cracking
elsewhere in the structure
Isolation Joint
-Completely isolate the
slab from something like a
column or wall. The
isolation joint is isolating a
column from a slab.

27. A typical CMU is
dimensioned at 8 x 8
x 16. They are made
of concrete and do
come in a variety of
sizes. They have a
multitude of uses and
are generally made at
a concrete plant. They
tend to be brittle.

28. 8 x 12 x 16
8 x 4 x 16

29. Split Block

30. Ribbed Face
Block

31. Exterior Flush Door

32. Panel
Stile
Top Rail
Lock Rail
Bottom Rail

33. Sidelight
A tall narrow window
along side a door.

34. Transom
A small window
directly above a
door.

35. Transformer
This changes the voltage of an
alternating current and step down the
voltage for the service head.

36. Service Head Meter
Receives the Measure the
electrical wires amount of
from a service electricity used
drop. in the building.
Measures in
Kilowatt hours.

37. Service Panel Duplex Receptacle
Contains the breakers for This hold 110V of
the house and facilitates current and runs basic
the connection to the appliances and lights.
duplex receptacles

38. #1 Anchor Bolt

39. #4 Subflooring
#3 Floor Joist
#2 Sill Plate

40. #5 Sole Plate

41. #7 Top Plate
#6 Stud

42. #8 Ceiling Joist #9 Rafter

43. #10 Roof Decking #11 Sheathing

44. #12 Stringer

45. This piece of
equipment is a large
vehicle with an arm
attached to the front
that can have a
multitude of
attachments that can
be used for many
things.
This is an engineering
vehicle used to load
materials into another
type of machinery.

46. An interior facing panel consisting of gypsum core sandwiched
between paper faces, also called drywall and plasterboard

47. Disadvantage

◦ Relatively Noisy
Advantage

◦ Rapid Response Time

48. Compressor Unit
The compressor unit takes in and
extracts hot or cold air from the
external air and sends it through
to the air handling unit. It
increases efficiency by using
refrigerant in the compressor to
further heat or cool the air before
it reaches the air handling unit

49. Air Handling Unit
This device heats
or cools the air
that is sent
through the home
by means of the
duct system

50. Batt Insulation
The purpose of insulation is
to maintain a separated
environment form the
exterior of the house to the
inside of the house.

51. Rigid Board Insulation
The purpose of
insulation is to
maintain a separated
environment form the
exterior of the house
to the inside of the
house.

54. Concrete Lintel
A lintel is a device usually steel
or concrete that spans over an
opening in a building and allows
the brick cladding to be
supported above the opening.

55. This mortar joint is 3/8 inches thick and is tooled. It is
used on a brick clad building that just happens to be a
construction company office. The mortar type is probably
type S.

57. A building panel composed of long
shreds of wood fiber oriented in
specific directions and bonded
together under pressure. It is a
nonveneered panel.
OSB is made from chipped up logs
that are bonded together in mats
with binder that is subjected to
heat and pressure. The exterior
mats are layered in the way of the
chips being aligned in the long
direction and the inner layers
being aligned randomly. They are
pressed and heated and form the
OSB board.

58. Water Closet
Lavatory
The typical Size
piping used is 3”
The typical
Piping size
used is 1½ in.

59. Tub placed
during framing

60. VTR stands for Vent through roof and
provides the relief of sewer gases.

61. This kitchen
sink is a drop-
in sink.

62. A wood panel composed of an
odd number of layers of wood
veneer bonded together under
pressure.
The logs are soaked in hot
water and then they are
unrolled like a roll of paper.
The Strip of veneer is sliced
and then chipped up and kiln
dried. The veneers are then
glued together in the pattern
designated. They are then
placed under pressure to form
the plywood panels we see.
Veneer-a thing layer, sheet, or
facing

64. The diameter of the rebar is ¾ in and a number 6 rebar.
The purpose of the deformation is to keep the rebar in
place in the concrete after the concrete has been poured
and set up around the rebar.

65. Gutter Downspout
Gutters and Downspouts are used to collect rain water and snow melt
from the roof and direct it to the ground without allowing the moisture to
touch the sides of the building. They also limit the erosion of the ground.
They are generally made of aluminum and
are connected at the eave of the roof.

67. Underlayment
A layer of
waterproofing material
such as building felt
between the sheathing
and the roofing.

68. Clay Tile Roof

69. Metal Shingles
A shingle is a small light weight
unit that is applied in overlapping
layers with staggered vertical joints

70. Metal Panel Roofing
The typical materials used are galvanized
Aluminum, Zinc, Chromium, Steel, Stainless
steel, Cadmium, Nickel, Tin, Lead, Brass, Bronze, Copper or aluminized
steel.

71. Gable Hip
Mansard
Gambrel

72. Ridge Valley
Level intersection of A trough formed by the
two roof planes in a intersection of two roof
gable roof slopes

73. Rake Eave
The sloping edge of a The horizontal edge of
steep roof. the low side of a sloping
roof.

74. Soffit Fascia
The undersurface of a The exposed vertical face
horizontal element of a of an eave.
building

75. Building Without Fascia
Fascia is the exposed
vertical face of an eave.

76. Uncoursed Ashlar

77. Coursed Ashlar

78. Random Rubble

80. The vapor retarder is a layer of material
intended to obstruct the passage of
water vapor through a building
assembly It is generally place on the
warm in winter side of the building
assembly.

82. A small opening whose

purpose is to permit
drainage of water that
accumulates inside a
building component or
assembly

83. The measurements of the grid are 6 inches by 6 inches.

84. Awning Window
This is an awning
window because
it is hinged in the
vertical direction
on the top plane.
The window
opens outward
and resembles an
awning.

85. Double Hung Window
This window has two
moving sashes that slide
up and down in tracks of
a window.

86. Sliding Window
This window has one
sash that moves left
and right in tracks on
the top and bottom
of the window frame.