- ACCESSORY:
- A supplementary building product, such as a door,
window, skylight, ventilator, etc.
- Bolts used to anchor structural members to a concrete
floor, foundation or other support. Usually refers to the
bolts at the bottom of all columns and door jambs.
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- ANCHOR BOLT PLAN:
- A plan view of the foundation showing all dimensions
and sections required to properly locate the anchor
bolts, including projection above concrete, required
recess, etc. Column
- reactions (magnitude and direction), and base plate
dimensions are included.
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- APPROVAL DRAWING:
- A product drawing sent to the customer to verify
design and dimensions and to verify the sales contract
description of materials and services the manufacturer
has agreed to furnish.
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- ASTRAGAL:
- A closure between the two leaves of a double swing or
a double slide door used to close the joint.
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- AUXILIARY LOADS:
- All specified dynamic live loads other than the basic
design loads which -the building must safely withstand -
such as cranes, material handling systems and impact
loads.
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- BASE ANGLE:
- Continuous angle fixed to floor slab or grade beam
for attachment of all panels.
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- BASE PLATE:
- The plate of a column or beam which rests on the
supporting surface.
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- BAY:
- The space between frame center lines or primary
supporting members in the longitudinal
- direction of the building. Also called stanchion
spacing.
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- BEAD MASTIC:
- Sealant furnished in a continuous roll, normally used
for sealing roof panel laps. See Endlap Mastic.
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- BEAM:
- Horizontal Structural Member.
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- BILL OF MATERIAL:
- A list of components used for fabrication, shipping,
receiving and accounting purposes.
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- BIRD SCREEN:
- Wire mesh used to prevent birds from entering the
building through ventilators and louvers.
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- BLIND RIVET:
- A small headed Din with expendable shank for joining
light gage metal. Typically used to attach flashing,
gutter, etc. also referred to as a Pop Rivet.
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- BRACE RODS/CABLES:
- Rods or Cables placed diagonally in roof and walls
for transferring wind loads to foundations and
stabilizing the building.
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- BRACKET:
- A structural support projecting from a wall or column
on which another structural member is fastened. Example:
Crane runway brackets.
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- BRIDGE CRANE:
- Over travelling crane supported on beams and rails.
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- BUILDING CODES:
- Regulations established by a recognized agency
describing design loads, procedures and construction
details for structures. Usually apply to designated
geographical areas.
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- BUILT-UP SECTION:
- A structural member, usually an "H" shape,
made from individual flat plates welded together.
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- BUTT PLATE:
- The end plate of a structural member which usually
butts against a similar plate of another member to form a
confection. Used for moment resisting connections.
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- "C" SECTION:
- A member formed from steel coils into the shape of a
block "C". (See Channel.)
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- CANOPY:
- An overhanging or projecting roof structure with the
extreme end usually unsupported.
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- CAP PLATE:
- A plate located at the top of a column or end of a
beam for capping the exposed end of the member. Used for
pinned conditions.
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- CAULKING:
- Sealant used in making watertight joints.
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- CHANNEL:
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- COLD FORMED:
- A structural member produced from coiled steel stock
on a series of rolls at normal room temperatures, limited
to light gage material.
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- HOT ROLLED:
- A member formed while in a semi-molten state at the
steel mill to a general "C" shape having
standard dimensions and properties specified by AISC or
the steel producer.
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- CLEAR SPAN:
- Building without internal columns.
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- CLIP:
- A plate or angle used to fasten two or more members
together.
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- CLOSER:
- Mechanical device, usually attached to a door, which
prevents closing with excessive force.
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- CLOSURE:
- (FOAM CLOSURE): Profiled foam material used inside or
outside profiled roof or wall panels to form weather
tight seal.
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- COLD FORMED STEEL:
- The process of using press brakes or rolling mills to
cold form sheet or strip steel into desired shapes. A
steel member that has been formed into its functional
shape without heat being applied to aid in the forming.
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- COLUMN:
- A primary structural member used in a vertical
position on a building to transfer loads from main roof
beams, trusses or rafters to the foundation.
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- CONCRETE NOTCH:
- A notch or block-out formed -along the outside edge
of the foundation to provide support for the wall panels
and to help serve as a closure along their bottom edge.
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- CONTINUOUS BEAM:
- A beam which has more than two points of support.
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- CONTINUOUS RIDGE VENT:
- Two or more accessories mounted on the building ridge
that allows air circulation.
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- CORNER CLOSURE:
- The finish trim connecting the gutter (or eave trim)
and the rake trim (or gable trim).
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- CORNER COLUMN:
- A column at any corner of a building. Corner columns
may be primary frame columns or post and beam columns.
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- CRANE:
- A machine designed to lift and/or move material by
means of a hoist.
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- CRANE BRACKET:
- Structural support welded to the primary building
frame to permit attachment of a crane runway beam. (see
bracket).
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- CRANE BEAM:
- Support for overhead travelling bridge crane.
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- CRANE RAILS:
- Rails welded or bolted to crane beams to form the
track for bridge crane wheels.
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- CROSS SECTION:
- An engineering term referring to a drawing or a plan
section of any object cut at right angles to its axis.
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- CURB:
- Raised flashing around roof openings to form
waterproof openings.
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- DAMPER:
- Baffle plate in a ventilator.
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- DEAD LOAD:
- Weight of the structure.
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- DOOR GUIDE:
- An angle or channel guide used to stabilize or keep
plumb a sliding or rolling door during its operation.
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- DOUBLE CHANNEL:
- Two channels placed web to web for additional
strength. Normally used in end post conditions.
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- DOWNSPOUT:
- A hollow section used to carry water from the gutter
of a building to the ground or storm drain.
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- DOWNSPOUT ELBOW:
- Cold formed sheet metal,.. matching the downspout
shape and curved as to direct water away from a wall when
attached to the lower end of a downspout.
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- DOWNSPOUT OUTLET:
- A hollow section made to the size and shape of
downspouts. It is attached through the bottom of the
gutter to allow water drainage into the downspouts.
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- EAVE:
- A line along the roof/sidewall intersection formed by
the inside faces of the roof and wall panels.
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- EAVE FLASHING:
- A sheet metal closure which functions primarily to
provide weather tightness in a structure and secondarily
to enhance appearance.
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- EAVE HEIGHT:
- The vertical dimension from finished floor to the
eave.
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- EAVE STRUT:
- Structural member at the eave which supports roof
cover and connects to wall panels.
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- ELEVATION:
- a) Distance above or below a prescribed datum or
reference. b) Engineering term referring to any side view
of a structure.
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- END FRAMING:
- See "Frame in Endwall" and "Post and
Beam Endwall".
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- END WALL RAFTER:
- Normally a cold formed "C" section
supported by end posts on post and beam endwalls. End
rafters can also be a built-up plate section if required
by design loads.
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- END LAP:
- A term used to describe the lap condition occurring
at a purlin location where the end of one panel overlaps
the panel below it.
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- END LAP MASTIC:
- Sealant in extruded bead form used to seal roof panel
endlaps for weather tightness.
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- ENDWALL:
- A term used to describe the entire composition of a
building end. (See Post & Beam Endwall or Rigid Frame
Endwall).
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- ERECTION:
- The on site assembling of prefabricated components to
form the complete structure.