The document provides definitions and images for various construction and building terminology organized into categories such as electrical components, framing elements, doors, brickwork, and cladding. Key terms defined include air barrier paper, soffit vent, gable vent, ridge vent, backhoe, jack arch, Flemish bond, header, stretcher, isolation joint, concrete masonry unit, flush door, transom, sidelight, power pole transformer, meter, panel board, duplex receptacle, ceiling joists, studs, sole plate, floor joists, roof decking, sheathing, and rafters.

1. Visual Dictionary Course And Downspout

2. Air Barrier Paper Air Barrier Paper is used to prevent airflow and water penetration into the house. In this instance the air barrier paper is wrapped around the opening where a new door is being placed.

3. Attic Ventilation Soffit vent-opening under the eave of the roof that allows air to flow into the attic. Soffit vent

4. Attic Ventilation (contd.) Gable Vent Gable vent-opening used to exhaust excess heat from the attic. Ridge vent-long open assembly that allows air to circulate out of the ridge of a roof. Gable vent Ridge Vent

5. Attic Ventilation (Contd.) Roof turbine-help exhaust heat from the attic or building. Pulls the air away from it. Roof Turbine

6. Backhoe A backhoe is primarily used in the beginning stages of residential construction. It is used for such things as digging foundations. The width of the bucket in this picture is 2 feet.

7. Brick Arches Arch with a Keystone Jack Arch Jack arch

8. Brick Arches (contd.) Centering-temporary framework used to construct domes and arches. Roman Arch Centering

9. Brick Bonds StackedBond- Brick stacked on top in a vertical and horizontal straight pattern English garden wall- Flemish bond every other brick every fourth or 5th row Flemish running

10. Brick Work Header soldier soldier Sailor Rowlock Rowlock

11. Brick Work (contd.) Rowlock Stretcher stretcher

12. Brick Sizes Norman Modular 4 5/8” by 2 ¼” by 11 5/8” 3 5/8” by 2 ¼” by 7 5/8”

13. Bulldozer A Bulldozer is used to grade a site. A bulldozer is a machine that pushes dirt or any sort of land off or on a job site

14. Cladding EIFS Brick Brick EIFS

15. Cladding (contd.) Wood Shingle-small unit of wood nailed in overlapping fashion to render a wall or sloping roof water tight. Wood Boards Limestone (Travertine) Coursed Ashlar Wood shake- A shingle from a split log and not sawn

16. Code Requirements Measurements of stairs: Tread- 11” riser- 7” nosing-3/4” Code= tread-10”min riser-7 ¾”max nosing-3/4” to 1 ¼ “… The stairs meet the requirements -Window opening width is 27” and height is 35”= around 6.8 square feet. Code is 5.7 square feet minimum so it passes -Opening is 15” from finished floor. Code is maximum 44” above finished floor

17. Control Joint An intentional, linear descontinuity in a structure or a 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.

18. Isolation Joint Isolation joint-A joint in the concrete that is all the way around a column or pole. The concrete around it is usually poured at a separate time than the rest of the slab. This power pole is separated from the rest of the median.

19. Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) Building material that is hollowed concrete block. Meant to be laid in mortar. Standard dimensions are 8’ by 8’ by 16’ Bricks

20. Concrete Masonry Unit (Contd.) 8” thick CMU 12” thick CMU

21. Decorative CMU Ribbed Split Block Split face Ribbed

22. Doors Flush door

23. Doors Top Rail stile panel Lock rail Bottom rail

24. Doors Transom-small window located directly above the door Transom Side light Sidelight- tall, narrow window located to the side of the door.

25. Electrical Components power pole transformer-This is used to step down the power so that it can be used within a residence. Meter-A meter measures (in Kilowatt/hour) the energy usage in a building.

26. Electrical Components (Contd.) Service Head The assembly by which electricity is conducted from outdoor lines to meter base. Service head

27. Electrical Components (contd.) A panel board houses circuit breakers that divert the main power supply into different circuits and shuts of if a circuit is tripped. Duplex recepticle-A Duplex receptacle grounds anything that is in need of a source of energy. It provide power to common household items.

28. Framing Elements #8 Ceiling Joists #6 Stud #7 Top plate #4 Subflooring #5 Sole Plate

29. Framing Elements (Contd.) #3 Floor Joists #10 Roof Decking #11 Sheathing #2 Sill plate #9 Rafter