Building Materials and Their Uses
Safety Precautions with Building Materials
Handling and Storing Building Materials
Calculate Lumber, Panel and Concrete Quantities
Fasteners, Anchors and Adhesives
100

Each one of these represents one year of tree growth

What is an Annular Ring?

100

Due to the chemicals present when cutting pressure treated lumber, this piece of PPE is recommended.

What is a dust mask?

100

Lumber, plywood, and other building materials must be stored properly stored in order to prevent this.

What is damage?

100

Pi x radius squared x height

What is the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder?

100

It is usually necessary to drill pilot holes to receive wood screws, particularly if you are working with this type of wood. 

What is hardwood?

200

It is the type of wood that is located in the center of a tree.  It is the oldest, driest, hardest, most naturally rot-resistant portion of the log.

What is Heartwood?

200

Together "we" make up the Fatal 4, which result in 3 out of 5 jobsite fatalities, or approximately 431 worker deaths per year.

What are Falls, Electrocution, Struck By and Caught In or Between?

200
Although these types of safety equipment protect against cuts, they must be sized correctly so that they aren't so big as to get caught and pulled into rotating objects or so small as to increase hand fatigue.

What are gloves?

200

It's typically 12 cubic yards but could be less if using heavy aggregate.

What is the volume of a full truckload of concrete?

200

This type of nail has a neoprene washer with either a helical or plain shank.

What is a roofing panel nail?

300

This abbreviation indicates that the maximum moisture content at the time of surfacing was 15%

What is MC15?

300

"To save lives, prevent injuries, and protect the health of America's workers."

What is the mission of OSHA?

300

This is how you must keep your back while you are lifting with your legs and keeping you head up. 

What is straight?
300

5%

What is the typical amount of waste factored in when ordering concrete?
300

This type of anchor may have a cutting sleeve that is first used as a drill bit and later becomes the expandable anchor itself.

What is a Self-Drilling Anchor?

400

This type of framing member is made from 20-gauge steel (as opposed to 25-gauge) and often has knurled or dimpled sides.

What is a heavy gauge framing member?

400

These types of items are capable of easily igniting and rapidly burning; also, used to describe a fuel with a flash point at or above 100 degrees F.

What is combustible?

400

You can prevent moisture in a concrete floor from wicking up into stored material by implementing this common material storage tactic.

What is stacking material on top of scrap lumber?

400

32 square feet

What is the area of a typical construction panel?

400

Casing nails have more holding power than finish nails mainly due to these two factors.

What are the shape of the head and an increased diameter?

500

Standard, Tempered and Service Grade

What are the 3 available grades of hardboard?

500

Specifically, 1926 but parts of the 1910 are also included.

1915, 1917 & 1918 are unrelated.

What are the OSHA Standards for the Construction Industry?

500

This is the type of building material that is often sold by the bag, contains one cubic foot of material by volume and weighs approximately 94 pounds each.

What is Bagged Cement?

500

A board that is 3" thick, 4" wide, and 4' long contains the same amount of these as a board that is 1" thick, 6" wide, and 8' long.

What are board feet?

500

This material is specified for use in masonry or rotary hammer drill bits.  If it weren't then they wouldn't be able to take the higher impact of the masonry material.

What is carbide?

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