Construction Basics
This material is made from cement, water, sand, and aggregate and is commonly used for foundations and slabs.
What is concrete?
This design professional plans outdoor spaces around buildings.
What is a landscape architect?
This engineer makes sure the building can safely stand up.
What is a structural engineer?
This company is typically responsible for managing construction of the overall project and coordinating subcontractors.
What is the general contractor?
True or False, changing something after it's already built costs more than the initial cost.
What is true?
These vertical members inside a wall may be made from wood or light-gauge metal.
What are studs?
The person who designs the overall building and prepares drawings showing its appearance and layout.
Who is an architect?
These engineers commonly design the systems that heat and cool a commercial building.
What are mechanical engineers?
This trade installs wiring, electrical panels, outlets and many lighting systems.
Who is the electrician?
A structural engineer must consider this weather force pushing horizontally against a tall building.
What is wind?
The lowest part of a building that transfers its loads into the ground.
What is the foundation?
A drawing showing a building as if you were looking straight down after removing the roof.
What is a floor plan?
This engineer helps design the system that provides power to lights, receptacles and equipment.
What is an electrical engineer?
This trade installs piping, sinks, toilets and other water and sanitary systems.
Who is the plumber?
This device tells this mechanical system when the building needs more heating or cooling.
What is a thermostat?
These large rectangular or round passages carry conditioned air throughout a building.
What is ductwork?
This drawing shows what the outside face of a building will look like.
What is an elevation?
This engineer commonly helps design the roads, drainage and utilities surrounding a commercial building.
What is a civil engineer?
This person helps coordinate the construction schedule, subcontractors, materials, safety and daily field activities.
Who is the project superintendent?
True or False - A landscape architect doesn't need to coordinate landscaping with underground water, sewer, storm and electrical lines.
What is false?
These steel bars are placed inside concrete to reinforce it.
What is rebar?
A drawing created by imagining the building has been sliced vertically so you can see inside it.
What is a section?
This system carries used water away from fixtures and toward the sewer system.
What is the sanitary waste system?
This person may track submittals, RFIs, contracts, costs and schedules while helping manage the construction project.
Who is the project manager?
We're adding equipment that requires a large amount of electrical power. Who needs to determine whether the building's electrical system can support it?
Who is the electrical engineer?