Construction Types
Consists mainly of reinforced concrete with structural members protected by insulation or automatic sprinklers. The primary hazard is building contents.
What is Type I Construction or Fire Resistive?
The person on the fire ground with the task of maintaining the safety of all crews operating.
What is the Safety Officer?
Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms.
What are carpenters?
Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. Ensure that work is following relevant codes.
What are Electricians?
Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.
What are Civil Engineers?
All metal buildings fall into this category. Structural components lack fire-resistant insulation.
What is Type II Construction or Non-Combustible?
The signal, given by the driver, that the apparatus will be traveling in reverse.
What are the 3 honks of the horn?
Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types.
What are Construction Laborers?
Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.
What are Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers?
Plan, direct, or coordinate, usually through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities, and systems. Participate in the conceptual development of a construction project and oversee its organization, scheduling, budgeting, and implementation. Includes managers in specialized construction fields, such as carpentry or plumbing.
What are Construction Managers?
Exterior walls are made of noncombustible of limited combustible materials such as concrete blocks of bricks. The Interior of the structure is made of wood.
What is Type III or Ordinary Construction?
Used when operating around loud noises.
What is Hearing Protection?
Lay pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains.
What are Pipelayers?
Install or repair heating, central air conditioning, HVAC, or refrigeration systems, including oil burners, hot-air furnaces, and heating stoves.
What are Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers?
Prepare cost estimates for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services to aid management in bidding on or determining the price of products or services. May specialize according to particular service performed or type of product manufactured.
What is Cost Estimators?
Exterior and interior walls are made of noncombustible or limited combustible materials and the interior is made out of solid or laminated wood with no hidden spaces.
What is Type IV or Heavy Timber Construction?
Act of using a tool to check if the surface you are walking on is solid.
What is Sounding the Floor/Roof?
Set up or repair rigging for construction projects, manufacturing plants, logging yards, ships, and shipyards, or for the entertainment industry.
What are Riggers?
Direct work crews installing residential or commercial solar photovoltaic or thermal systems.
What are Solar Energy Installation Managers?
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
What are Surveyors?
The exterior is made completely or partially out of wood. Commonly used to construct typical single-family dwellings of apartment buildings up to seven stories.
What is Type V or Wood Framed Construction?
Radio transmission consists of Location, Unit, Name, and Emergency.
What is Mayday Transmission?
Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences.
What are Highway Maintenance Workers?
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in landscaping or groundskeeping activities. Work may involve reviewing contracts to ascertain service, machine, and workforce requirements.
What are First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers?
Develop plans for surface transportation projects according to established engineering standards and state or federal construction policy. Prepare designs, specifications, or estimates for transportation facilities. Plans modifications of existing streets, highways, or freeways to improve traffic flow.
What are Transportation Engineers?