This visual dictionary provides definitions and descriptions of various construction materials and components. It includes entries on air barriers, attic ventilation components, backhoes, batter boards, brick bonds, bulldozers, cladding materials, code requirements, concrete joints, concrete masonry units, decorative concrete blocks, doors, electrical components, framing elements, front end loaders, gypsum board, heat pumps, insulation materials, lintels, mortar joints, oriented strand board, plumbing fixtures, plywood, radiant barriers, rebar, roof drainage components, roof materials, roof shapes, roof terms, stone patterns, vapor retarders, waterproofing, weep holes, welded wire fabric, and windows.

1. Visual Dictionary BSCI 2300 T/TH 11:00

2. Definition : A polyolefin sheet material used as an air barrier. This material is used for keeping water and air from breaching it. This material is permeable to water vapor though.

3. Air Barrier Paper

4. Attic Ventilation Soffit Vent Ridge Vent Ridge Vent Soffit vent

5. Why Their Needed Soffit Vent : They are used to create intake ventilation. Ridge Vent : This long continuous vent is used for venting, usually located at the top of the structure.

6. Ridge Vent Roof Turbine Attic Ventilation

7. Why Their Needed Roof Turbine : Is a passive vent used to exhaust moist hot air from your attic or structure. Gable Vent: Help create a cross draft in a wind condition. .

8. Backhoe Backhoe end

9. Definition: A backhoe, also called a rear actor or back actor, is a piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. They are typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader. ...

10. Width of the bucket 22-1/2’’ Backhoe end

11. Definition : A temporary frame built just outside the corner of an excavation to carry marks that lie on the surface planes of the basement that will be built in excavation. Used to establish foundations and jogs in foundations, such as offsets and courts. Batter Boards

12. Batter Boards Out side corner of Batter Boards Nails to run your string to establish your outside corners

13. Brick Arch #1 Roman Arch #1

14. Brick Arch #2 Segmental Arch

15. Arch With Keystone #3 Arch Key Stone

16. Centering Centering: Temporary formwork for an arch, dome, or vault. Centering Centering

17. Brick Bond #1 Running Bond- The courses are all stretchers with offset mortar joints.

18. Brick Bond #2 Flemish Bond- The courses are laid stretcher header stretcher.

19. Rowlocks

20. Headers Headers

21. Soldiers

22. Sailors Sailors

23. Stretcher Rowlocks (Shiners) Shiners

24. Brick Size #1 Modular Brick Width 3-1/2” Length 7-1/2” Height 2-1/4”

25. Brick Size #2 Standard Brick Width 3 ½” Length 8” Height 2 ¼”

26. Bulldozer A heavy, driver-operated machine for clearing and grading land, usually having continuous treads and a broad hydraulic blade in front.

27. Bulldozer Bulldozer

28. Cladding Brick Clad Structure Brick Clad Structure

29. Cladding EFIS Clad Structure EFIS

30. Cladding Stone Clad Structure Stone Clad Structure

31. Cladding Wood Board Structure Board and Batten Cladding

32. Cladding Wood Shingle or Shake Structure Wood Shake Is what this

33. Cladding Wood Shake-A shingle split from a block of wood of water resistant material nailed in an overlapping fashion. Wood Shingle-A small sawn wood unit of water resistant material nailed in an overlapping fashion.

34. Code Requirements Egress Window From Bedroom

35. Code Requirements Actual measurements Width 34” Height 30-1/2’’ Area 34’’x30-1/2’’ is 7.20 sq.ft. Sill Height 21-3/4’’ AFF

36. Code Requirements IBC Requirements for this double hung window are Width 34-1/4’’ Height 24’’ Area 5.7 sq. ft. Sill Max 44” AFF

37. Code Requirements This window meets the egress requirements because it is with in the parameters of the required code to allow for emergency escape and rescue.

38. Code Requirements Riser Tread

39. Code Requirements Measured- Tread was 10-1/4” Riser was 7” Allowed By IBC code- Tread 10-11” minimum. Riser 7-3/4” maximum. These stairs do fall with in the parameters of the measurement required for stair safety. So it does meet the IBC code requirements.

40. Concrete Joints Control Joint Control Joint Control Joint with a crack near it.

41. Concrete Joints Control Joint - An intentional, linear discontinuity in a structure or component, designed to form a plane of weakness where cracking can occur in response to various forces so as to minimize or eliminate cracking elsewhere in the structure.

42. Concrete Joints Isolation Joint This isolation Joint is separating the column footing from the slab

43. Concrete Joints Isolation Joint - completely isolates the slab from something else. That something else can be a wall or a column or a drain pipe. This isolation joint is isolating the column footing from the slab.

44. Concrete Masonry Units CMU Three Brick courses high = 1 CMU high

45. Concrete Masonry Units CMU- A block of hardened concrete, with or without hallow cores, designed to be laid in the same manner as a brick or stone; a concrete block. Volume wise their much more economical. Common size is 8 X 8 X 16

46. Concrete Masonry Units 8” Wide CMU 12” Wide CMU

47. Decorative CMU Split Block Split Block

48. Decorative CMU Ribbed Block Ribbed CMU

49. Doors Exterior Flush Door

50. Doors: Exterior Panel Stile Top Rail Raised Panel Lock Rail Bottom Rail

51. Doors: Transom Transom

52. Doors: Transom Transom Definition: A small window directly above a door.

53. Doors: SideLights Side Light Side Light

54. Door: Sidelights Sidelight Definition: A tall narrow window along side door.

55. Electrical Components Electric Lines Transformer Power Pole

56. Electrical Components Power pole: Local Lines carry high direct voltage of several thousand volts to the transformer which then converts it to 110/120 volt alternating current.

57. Electrical Components Service Head

58. Electrical Components Service head: A weather head is a weatherproof electrical service point for your overhead electrical service feed. The weather head connects to the top of the electrical service pipe and has a cap over the connection frame. Since it sits atop the pipe, has a cap on top of it, and makes the connection weatherproof, it is called a weather head.

59. Electrical Components Meter

60. Electrical Components Meter: This is the device that measures the power your electrical system uses throughout the month. Measured in watts and is the step after the weather head.

61. Electrical Components Service Panel

62. Electrical Components Service panel: The electrical service panel provides 100, 200, or more amps of power to a home. Power comes into the house from a "service drop," connects to the lugs within the service panel , and is split into separate circuits throughout the house.

63. Duplex Receptacle Duplex Receptacle

64. Duplex Receptacle Duplex Receptacles are female electrical connectors that have slots or holes which accept and deliver current to the prongs of inserted plugs. To reduce the risk of injury or death by electric shock , some plug and socket systems incorporate various safety features. Sockets are designed to accept only matching plugs and reject all others.

65. Framing Elements Anchor Bolt #1 Anchor Bolt

66. Framing Elements Sill Plate #2 Sill Plate

67. Framing Elements Floor Joist #3 Floor Joist

68. Framing Elements Sub Flooring #4 Sub flooring

69. Framing Elements Sole Plate #5 Sole Plate Sole Plate

70. Framing Elements Stud #6 Stud Stud

71. Framing Elements Top Plate #7 Top Plate

72. Framing Elements Ceiling Joist #8 Ceiling Joist

73. Framing Elements Rafters #9 Rafters

74. Framing Elements Roof Decking #10 Roof Decking

75. Framing Elements Sheathing #11 Sheathing

76. Framing Elements Stringer #12 Stringer

77. Front End Loader Front End Loader

78. Front End Loader Front End Loader: Used to scoop and carry earth, rock or any material that can scooped. It is different from a bulldozer because it carries dirt instead of just pushing it.

79. Gypsum Board Gypsum Board

80. Heat Pump Heat Pump: One advantage of a heat pump is that it can increase heating efficiency by a factor of about 3. Heat Pump: One disadvantage of a heat pump is that it can be noisy so you must keep it away from Bedroom windows.

81. Heat pump Compressor/Condenser Compressor Condenser

82. Heat Pump Compressor/Condenser: The compressor compresses gas into a liquid while the condenser condenses liquid into a gas- or vise verse.

83. Heat Pump Air Handling Unit Air Handling Unit

84. Air Handling Unit Air Handling Unit: Is a device used to condition and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system.

85. Insulation Insulations purpose is to reduce unwanted heat loss or gain and can decrease the energy demands of heating and cooling systems .

86. Insulation Batt Insulation #1 Batt Insulation

87. Insulation Loose Fill #2 Loose Fill Insulation

88. Insulation Foamed Insulation #3 Foamed Insulation

89. Insulation Rigid Board Insulation #4

90. Lintel Lintel

91. Lintel Lintel: A beam that carries the Load of a wall across a window or door opening.

92. Mortar Mortar Joint #1

93. Mortar Tooled joint. 3/8” thick mortar joint This mortar joint is used on a single dwelling residential home. My guess is type N because it is the general use mortar.

94. Mortar Mortar Joint #2

95. Mortar Troweled 3/8” thick mortar joint This mortar joint is used on a single dwelling residential home. My guess is type N because it is the general use mortar.

96. Oriented Strand Board OSB- Is made of long, strand like wood particles compressed and glued into three to five layers they are nonveneered panels and is one of three nonveneered panels.

97. Oriented Strand board 8’ Sheet of OSB 4’

98. Plumbing Lavatory

99. Plumbing A 1-1/2” Pipe is to drain this lavatory.

100. Plumbing: Water Closet

101. Plumbing Usually a 3” pipe is used to drain waist from this water closet. 3” Pipe for Water Closet

102. Plumbing: Manufactured Tub

103. Plumbing: Roof Vent Plumbing Roof Vent

104. Plumbing: VTR The vents sticking up in the air are for the lavatories and water closets (toilets) to vent exhaust gas through the roof.

105. Plumbing: Kitchen Sink Undermount Sink

106. 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.

107. Plywood Plywood

108. Radiant Barrier Rafters Rafters Radiant Barrier

109. Radiant Barrier A radiant barrier is a layer of metallic foil, reflective paint, or other reflective material that blocks radiated heat, assisting in the energy performance of a building. Radiant Barrier is placed on the back of the rafters and sheathing and blocks radiation to allow for energy efficiency.

110. Rebar Rebar ¾” Dowel

111. Rebar Bar size in diameter: .750in or ¾” Bar #: #6 The purpose of the deformations or surface ribs is to create friction for better bonding to concrete.

112. Steep Roof Drainage Gutter Gutter

113. Steep Roof Drainage A channel that collects rainwater and snowmelt at the eave of a roof.

114. Steep Roof Drainage Down Spout Down Spout

115. Steep Roof Drainage Downspout: A vertical pipe for conducting water from a roof to a lower level. The downspout carries water from the gutter or roof to a lower level or ground.

116. Steep Roof Drainage Splashblock Splash Block

117. Steep Roof Drainage Splashblock: A small precast block of concrete or plastic used to divert water at the bottom of a downspout.

118. Steep Roof Materials Underlayment Underlayment

119. Steep Roof Materials Underlayment: A layer of waterproof material such as building felt between roof sheathing and roofing. It is layer of back up to prevent water from entering the structure.

120. Steep Roof Materials Clay Tile Roof Clay Tile Roof

121. Steep Roof Materials Shingle: A small unit of water-resistant material nailed in an overlapping fashion with many other such units to render; to apply shingles.

122. Steep Roof Materials Wood Shingles: Wood Shingles

123. Steep Roof Materials Metal Roof Metal Roof

124. Steep Roof Materials This roof is galvanized steel and painted light grey for aesthetic purposes.

125. Steep Roof Shapes Gable Roof: Gable Roof

126. Steep Roof Shapes Gambrel Roof Gambrel Roof

127. Steep Roof Shapes Hip Roof Hip Roof

128. Steep Roof Shapes Mansard Roof Mansard Roof

129. Steep Roof Terms Ridge Ridge

130. Steep Roof Terms Valley Valley: Weaved

131. Steep Roof Terms Eave Eave

132. Steep Roof Terms Rake Rake Rake

133. Steep Roof Terms Soffit Soffit Soffit

134. Steep Roof Terms Fascia Fascia Fascia

135. Steep Roof Terms Fascia: The exposed vertical face of an eave.

136. Steep Roof Terms Building Without Fascia No Fascia

137. Stone Random Rubble Pattern Random Rubble Pattern

138. Stone Coursed Rubble Pattern Coursed Rubble

139. Stone Random Ashlar Pattern

140. Stone Coursed Ashlar

141. Vapor Retarder Vapor Retarder on the warm side of the insulation layer

142. Vapor Retarder Vapor Retarder: Its Preventing condensation from occurring in building assemblies. It is installed on the warmer side of the insulation layer.

143. Waterproofing Water Proofing Water Proofing

144. Waterproofing Waterproofing: Is either a membrane, clay, portland cement or plaster with water-repellant admixtures that are applied to a structure to prevent water from reaching it. Usually an envelope that will receive pressure from being below grade such as a basement.

145. Waterproofing Category of Waterproofing: This waterproofing is “Roll On” or liquid applied.

146. Weep Hole Weep Hole

147. Weep hole Weep Hole: A small opening whose purpose is to permit drainage of water that accumulates inside a building component or assembly. The weep hole allows for any driven water that has penetrated through to the vapor barrier on the back up wall to run down and out the weep hole.

148. Welded Wire Fabric Welded Wire Fabric in a prepped slab

149. Welded Wire Fabric Measurements of the grid in both directions. 6”x6” is the grid in both directions.

150. Windows Window #1 Double Hung This is a Double Hung window because it has one or two moveable sashes.

151. Windows Window #2 Sliding This is a Sliding window because one slash slides past the other.

152. Windows Window #3 Casement This window is a casement window because the sash tilts outward, and its hinged on a vertical jamb