This page is a list of construction topics.

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Abrasive blasting Sandblasting, sometimes known as abrasive blasting, is the operation of forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material against a surface under high pressure to smooth a rough surface, roughen a smooth surface, shape a surface or remove sur ...

- AC power plugs and sockets - Access mat - Accrington brick - Accropode - Acid brick - Acoustic plaster - Active daylighting - Adaptive reuse - Aerial crane - Aerosol paint - Aggregate base - Agile construction - Akmon - Alternative natural materials - Anchorage in reinforced concrete - Angle grinder -

Arc welding Arc welding is a welding process that is used to join metal to metal by using electricity to create enough heat to melt metal, and the melted metals, when cool, result in a joining of the metals. It is a type of welding that uses a welding power ...

Artificial stone Artificial stone is a name for various synthetic stone products produced from the 18th century onward. Uses include statuary, architectural details, fencing and rails, building construction, civil engineering work, and industrial applications su ...

- Asbestos cement - Asbestos insulating board - Asbestos shingle - Asphalt concrete - Asphalt roll roofing - Autoclaved aerated concrete - Autonomous building -

Azulejo (, ; from the Arabic ) is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted Tin-glazing, tin-glazed ceramic tilework. ''Azulejos'' are found on the interior and exterior of church (building), churches, palaces, ordinary houses, schools, and nowadays, r ...

- Australian Construction Contracts - Axe

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Backhoe - Balloon framing - Bamboo construction - Bamboo-mud wall - Bandsaw - Banksman - Barrel roof - Baseboard - Basement waterproofing - Batten - Batter board - Belt sander - Bill of quantities - Bioasphalt - Biocidal natural building material - Bituminous waterproofing - Block paving - Blowtorch - Board roof - Bochka roof - Bond beam - Boulder wall - Bowen Construction -

Box crib A box crib or cribbing is a temporary wooden structure used to support heavy objects during construction, Structural move, relocation, vehicle extrication and urban search and rescue. It is commonly used to secure overturned motor vehicles, and ...

Breaker Breaker may refer to: Objects * A breaking wave on water, or a "breaker", a shallow over which waves break * Circuit breaker, an electrical overload switch * Breaker (hydraulic), a percussion hammer attached to an excavator People * Breaker ...

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Brick A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a unit primarily composed of clay. But is now also used informally to denote building un ...

- Brick clamp - Brick hod - Bricklayer - Brickwork - Bughole - Builder's risk insurance - Builders hardware - Builders' rites -

Building A building or edifice is an enclosed Structure#Load-bearing, structure with a roof, walls and window, windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, a ...

- Building automation - Building code - Building construction - Building control body - Building cooperative - Building design - Building diagnostics - Building engineer - Building envelope - Building estimator - Building implosion -

Building information modeling Building information modeling (BIM) is an approach involving the generation and management of digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of buildings or other physical assets and facilities. BIM is supported by vario ...

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Building insulation Building insulation is material used in a building (specifically the building envelope) to reduce the flow of thermal energy. While the majority of insulation in buildings is for thermal insulation, thermal purposes, the term also applies to ...

- Building insulation materials - Building-integrated photovoltaics - Building life cycle - Building maintenance unit - Building material - Building officials - Building performance - Building performance simulation - Building regulations approval - Building regulations in the United Kingdom - Building science - Building services engineering - Building typology - Bull's eye level - Bulldozer - Bundwerk - Bush hammer - Butterfly roof

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Calcium aluminate cements - Camber beam - Carpenter's axe - Carpentry - Cast in place concrete - Cast stone - Caulk - Cavity wall insulation - Cellulose insulation - Cement - Cement board - Cement-bonded wood fiber - Cement clinker - Cement kiln - Cement mill - Cement render - Cement tile - Cementing equipment - Cementitious foam insulation - Cenocell -

Central heating A central heating system provides warmth to a number of spaces within a building from one main source of heat. A central heating system has a Furnace (central heating), furnace that converts fuel or electricity to heat through processes. The he ...

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Ceramic building material Ceramic building material, often abbreviated to CBM, is an umbrella term used in archaeology to cover all building materials made from baked clay. It is particularly, but not exclusively, used in relation to Roman building materials. It is a us ...

- Ceramic tile cutter - Chaska brick - Chief Construction Adviser to UK Government - Chimney -

Circular saw A circular saw or a buzz saw, is a power-saw using a toothed or Abrasive saw, abrasive disk (mathematics), disc or blade to cut different materials using a rotary motion spinning around an Arbor (tool), arbor. A hole saw and ring saw also use ...

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Civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

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Climate-adaptive building shell In building engineering, a climate-adaptive building shell (CABS) is a façade or roof that interacts with the variability of its environment in a dynamic way. Conventional structures have static building envelopes and therefore cannot act in res ...

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Coating A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, or substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both. Coatings may be applied as liquids, gases or solids e.g. powder coatings. Paints ...

- Cold-formed steel - Collar beam - Collyweston stone slate - Compactor - Complex Projects Contract -

Composite material A composite or composite material (also composition material) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials. These constituent materials have notably dissimilar chemical or physical properties and are merged to create a ...

- Composting toilet - Compressed earth block - Computer-aided design -

Concrete Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bound together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time. It is the second-most-used substance (after water), the most–widely used building material, and the most-manufactur ...

- Concrete degradation - Concrete densifier - Concrete finisher - Concrete float - Concrete fracture analysis - Concrete grinder - Concrete hinge - Concrete leveling - Concrete mixer - Concrete masonry unit - Concrete moisture meter - Concrete plant - Concrete pump - Concrete recycling - Concrete saw - Concrete sealer - Concrete ship - Concrete slab - Concrete slump test - Conical roof - Constructability -

Constructed wetland A constructed wetland is an artificial wetland to treat sewage, greywater, stormwater runoff or Industrial wastewater treatment, industrial wastewater. It may also be designed for land reclamation after mining, or as a Flood mitigation, mitigatio ...

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Construction Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...

- Construction Alliance - Construction and renovation fires - Construction bidding - Construction buyer - Construction collaboration technology - Construction communication - Construction contract - Construction delay - Construction engineering -

Construction equipment theft Construction equipment theft, is the Crime, criminal act of Theft, stealing or attempting to steal construction equipment, including all type of Heavy equipment (construction), heavy equipments. Construction equipment theft has been recognized as ...

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Construction industry of Iran The construction industry of Iran is divided into two main sections. The first is government infrastructure projects, which are central for the Mining in Iran#Cement, cement industry. The second is the housing industry. In recent years, the const ...

- Construction industry of Japan - Construction industry of Romania - Construction industry of the United Kingdom - Construction law - Constructionline - Construction loan - Construction management - Construction paper - Construction partnering - Construction Photography - Construction Research and Innovation Strategy Panel - Construction site safety - Construction trailer - Construction waste - Construction worker - Cool pavement - Copper cladding - Cordwood construction - Core-and-veneer - Corn construction - Cornerstone - Corrosion fatigue - Corrugated galvanised iron - Cost engineering - Cost overrun - Cover meter - Crane - Crane vessel - Crawl space - Crawler excavator - Cream City brick - Creep and shrinkage of concrete - Cross bracing - Cross-laminated timber - Custom home -

Cutting tool Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the scalpel an ...

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Damp proofing - Deck - Deconstruction - Decorative concrete - Decorative laminate - Decorative stones -

Deep foundation A pile or piling is a vertical structural element of a deep foundation, driven or drilled deep into the ground at the building site. A deep foundation is a type of foundation (architecture), foundation that transfers building loads to the e ...

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Demolition Demolition (also known as razing and wrecking) is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing down buildings and other artificial structures. Demolition contrasts with deconstruction (building), deconstruction, which inv ...

- Demolition waste - Design–bid–build - Design–build - Detailed engineering - Diagrid - Diamond grinding - Diamond grinding of pavement -

Die grinder Die, as a verb, refers to death, the cessation of life. Die may also refer to: Games * Die, singular of dice, small throwable objects used for producing random numbers Manufacturing * Die (integrated circuit), a rectangular piece of a semicon ...

- Dimensional lumber - Directional boring - Displacement ventilation - Distribution board - Dolos - Domestic roof construction - Double envelope house - Double tee - Dragon beam - Drain (plumbing) - Drainage - Drifter drill - Drill - Drilling and blasting - Driven to refusal - Dropped ceiling - Dry mortar production line - Drywall - Drywall mechanic - Ducrete - Dump truck - Dumper - Duplex - Dutch brick - Dutch gable roof - Dutch roof tiles - Dwang

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Electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

Electrical wiring Electrical wiring is an electrical installation of Electrical cable, cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets, and light fittings in a structure. Wiring is subject to safety standards for design and in ...

- Electrician - Electric resistance welding - Elemental cost planning - Elevator mechanic - Encasement - Encaustic tile - Endurance time method - Energetically modified cement -

Engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

- Engineered cementitious composite - Engineering brick - Engineering, procurement, and construction - Enviroboard - Environmental impact of concrete - Equivalent Concrete Performance Concept -

Erosion control Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development, coast, coastal areas, Bank (geography), river banks and construction. Effective erosion controls handle surface runoff and are ...

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Excavator Excavators are heavy equipment (construction), heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a backhoe, boom, dipper (or stick), Bucket (machine part), bucket, and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The modern excavator's ...

- Expanded clay aggregate - Expanded polystyrene concrete - External render - Exterior insulation finishing system - External wall insulation

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Falsework - Facade - Facade engineering - Facadism - Facility condition assessment - Fareham red brick - Fast-track construction - Fastener - Faux painting - Fédération Française du Bâtiment - Ferrocement -

Fiberboard Fiberboard (American English) or fibreboard (Commonwealth English) is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers. Types of fiberboard (in order of increasing density) include particle board or low-density fiberboard (LDF ...

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Fiberglass Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) is a common type of fibre-reinforced plastic, fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened i ...

- Fiberglass sheet laminating - Fiber-reinforced composite - Fiber-reinforced concrete - Fiber roll - Fibre cement - Fibre-reinforced plastic - Filigree concrete - Fill trestle - Fire brick - Fire door -

Fire protection Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially Conflagration, destructive fires. It involves the study of the behaviour, Compartmentalization (fire protection), compartmentalisation, suppression and inve ...

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Active fire protection Active fire protection (AFP) is an integral part of fire protection. AFP is characterized by items and/or systems, which require a certain amount of motion and response in order to work, contrary to passive fire protection. Categories Manual f ...

Passive fire protection Passive fire protection (PFP) is components or systems of a building or structure that slows or impedes the spread of the effects of fire or smoke without system activation, and usually without movement. Examples of passive systems include floor- ...

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Fireproofing Fireproofing is rendering something (Building, structures, materials, etc.) resistant to fire, or incombustible; or material for use in making anything fire-proof. It is a passive fire protection measure. "Fireproof" or "fireproofing" can be u ...

- Fire safety - Fire sprinkler system - First fix and second fix - Flashing - Flat roof - Floating raft system - Floor plan - Flux-cored arc welding - Fly ash brick - Foam concrete - Foam glass -

Forge welding Forge welding (FOW), also called fire welding, is a solid-state welding process that joins two pieces of metal by heating them to a high temperature and then hammering them together. It may also consist of heating and forcing the metals together ...

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Furring In construction, furring (furring strips) are strips of wood or other material applied to a structure to level or raise the surface, to prevent dampness, to make space for insulation, to level and resurface ceilings or walls, or to increase the be ...

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Gable roof - Gambrel - Gas metal arc welding - Geofoam - Geologic preliminary investigation - GigaCrete - Girt - Glass brick - Glass fiber reinforced concrete - Glazier - Glazing - Glued laminated timber - Grade beam - Grader - Grating - Green building - Green building and wood - Green building in Germany - Green (certification) - Green roof - Green wall - Groundbreaking - Ground reinforcement - Grout - Grouted roof - Guastavino tile - Gypsum block - Gypsum concrete

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Hammer A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nail (fastener), nails into wood, to sh ...

- Hammerbeam roof - Hammer drill - Hard hat - Harling - Harvard brick - Heat pump - Heavy equipment - Heavy equipment operator - Hempcrete - Herodotus Machine - Herringbone pattern - High-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites - High-rise building - High-visibility clothing - History of construction - History of structural engineering - History of the world's tallest buildings - Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning - Hoisting - Home construction - Home improvement - Home wiring - Hot-melt adhesive -

House A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air c ...

House painter and decorator A house painter and decorator is a tradesperson responsible for the painting and decorating of buildings, and is also known as a decorator, or house painter.''The Modern Painter and Decorator'' volume 1 1921 Caxton The purpose of painting is ...

House raising House raising (also called house lifting, house jacking, barn jacking, building jacking) is the process of separating a building from its foundation and temporarily raising it with hydraulic screw jacks. The process is the first step in stru ...

- Housewrap - Hurricane-proof building - Hybrid masonry - Hydrodemolition - Hydrophobic concrete - Hypertufa

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Impact wrench An impact wrench (also known as an impactor, impact gun, air wrench, air gun, rattle gun, torque gun, windy gun) is a socket wrench power tool designed to deliver high torque output with minimal exertion by the user, by storing energy in a ro ...

- Imperial roof decoration - Industrialization of construction - Insulated glazing - Insulated siding - Insulating concrete form - Insulation materials - Integrated framing assembly - Integrated project delivery - Interior protection - International Building Code - Ironworker

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Jack post A jack post (screw jack, telepost, adjustable steel column) is a steel post used in the construction trades for temporary support of loads such as ceilings, walls, and formwork, concrete formwork, and as shoring in trenches. They are designed to b ...

- Japanese carpentry - Jettying - Jigsaw - Joinery - Joint - Joint compound - Johnson bar

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Knee wall - Knockdown texture

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Laborer - Ladder - Lakhori bricks - Laminate panel - Lath and plaster - Laser level - Launching gantry - Lean construction - Level luffing crane - Lewis (lifting appliance) - Lift slab construction - Lifting equipment -

Lighting Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources like lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylight. ...

- Light tower - Lightening holes - Lime mortar - Line of thrust - Live bottom trailer - Living building material - Load-bearing wall - Loader - Log building - London stock brick - Low-energy building techniques - Low-energy house - Low-rise building - Lump sum contract - Lunarcrete - Lustron house

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Mansard roof - Marbleizing - Masonry - Masonry trowel - Masonry veneer - Mass concrete - Master builder - Material efficiency - Material passport - Mathematical tile - Mechanical connections - Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing - Mechanics lien - Medieval letter tile - Medium-density fibreboard - Megaproject -

Megastructure A megastructure (or macrostructure) is a very large artificial object, although the limits of precisely how large vary considerably. Some apply the term to any especially large or tall building. Some sources define a megastructure as an enorm ...

- Metal profiles - Microtunneling - Middle-third rule - Miller Act - Millwork - Millwright - Mobile crane - Modular addition - Modular building - Moiré tell-tale - Moling - Moment-resisting frame - Monocrete construction - Mono-pitched roof - Mortar - Mudbrick - Mudcrete - Multi-tool

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Nail gun - Nanak Shahi bricks - Nanoconcrete - NEC Engineering and Construction Contract - New Austrian tunnelling method - New-construction building commissioning - Nibbler - Non-shrink grout

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Occupancy - Offshore construction - Off-site construction - Operational bill - Opus africanum - Opus albarium - Opus craticum - Opus gallicum - Opus incertum - Opus isodomum - Opus latericium - Opus mixtum - Opus quadratum - Opus reticulatum - Opus spicatum - Opus vittatum - Oriented strand board - Oxy-fuel welding and cutting

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Panelling Panelling (or paneling in the United States) is a millwork wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components. These are traditionally interlocking wood, but could be plastic or other materials. Panelling was developed in antiquity ...

- Pantile - Papercrete - Parge coat - Particle board - Passive daylighting - Passive house - Passive survivability - Pavement - Pavement engineering - Pavement milling - Paver base - Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural) - Performance bond - Permeable paving - Pierrotage - Pile cap - Pile driver - Pile splice -

Pipefitter A pipefitter or steamfitter is a tradesman who installs, assembles, fabricates, maintains, and repairs mechanical piping systems. Pipefitters usually begin as helpers or apprentices. Journeyman pipefitters deal with industrial/commercial/marine ...

- Pipelayer - Planetary surface construction - Plank (wood) - Planning permission - Planning permission in the United Kingdom - Plasma arc welding - Plasterer -

Plasterwork Plasterwork is construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster Molding (decorative), decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. This is also sometimes called parge ...

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Plumber A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, hot-water production, sewage and drainage in plumbing systems.

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Portable building A portable, demountable or transportable building is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located. Smaller version of portable buildings are also known as portable cabins. Portable cabins are prefabricated struct ...

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Power shovel A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity and used for digging and loading earth or frag ...

Power tool A power tool is a tool that is actuator, actuated by an additional engine, power source and mechanism (engineering), mechanism other than the solely manual labour, manual labor used with hand tools. The most common types of power tools use electric ...

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Precast concrete Precast concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable molding (process), mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and maneuvered into place; examples i ...

- Pre-construction services - Pre-engineered building - Prefabricated building - Prefabrication - Prestressed concrete - Prestressed structure - Primer (paint) - Project agreement (Canada) - Project delivery method -

Project management Project management is the process of supervising the work of a Project team, team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project initiation documentation, project documentation, crea ...

- Properties of concrete - Punch list - Purlin

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Quadruple glazing - Quantity surveyor - Quantity take-off - Quarry tile - Quarter minus

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R-value (insulation) - Radial arm saw - Radiant barrier - Radiator reflector - Rafter - Rainscreen - Raised floor - RAL colour standard - RAL colors - Rammed earth - Random orbital sander - Rapid construction - Ready-mix concrete - Real estate - Rebar - Rebar detailing - Rebar spacer - Reciprocal frame - Reciprocating saw - Red List building materials - Red rosin paper - Redevelopment - Reed mat (plastering) - Reema construction - Reglet - Reinforced concrete - Reinforced concrete structures durability - Relocatable buildings - Repointing - Resilience (engineering and construction) - Retentions in the British construction industry - Rice-hull bagwall construction - Rigger - Rigid panel - Ring crane - Rivet gun -

Road A road is a thoroughfare used primarily for movement of traffic. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads. Most modern roads are paved. Th ...

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Roof A roof (: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of tempera ...

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Roof tiles Roof tiles are overlapping tiles designed mainly to keep out precipitation such as rain or snow, and are traditionally made from locally available materials such as clay or slate. Later tiles have been made from materials such as concrete, glass ...

- Room air distribution - Rosendale cement - Rotary hammer - Roughcast - Rubberized asphalt - Rubble - Rubble trench foundation - Rubblization - Ruin value

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Saddle roof - Salt-concrete - Saltillo tile - Sander - Sandhog - Sandjacking - Sandwich panel - Sarking - Saw-tooth roof - Sawyer - Scabbling - Scaffolding - Schmidt hammer - Screed - Screw piles - Scrim and sarking - Sediment control - Segregation in concrete - Self-build - Self-cleaning floor - Self-consolidating concrete - Self-framing metal buildings - Self-leveling concrete -

Septic tank A septic tank is an underground chamber made of concrete, fiberglass, or plastic through which domestic wastewater (sewage) flows for basic sewage treatment. Settling and anaerobic digestion processes reduce solids and organics, but the treatment ...

- Serviceability - Sett - Settlement (structural) - Sewage treatment - Shallow foundation - Shear - Shear wall - Sheet metal - Shelf angle - Shielded metal arc welding - Shiplap - Shop drawing -

Shoring Shoring is the process of temporarily supporting a building, vessel, structure, or trench with shores (Jack post, props) when in danger of collapse or during repairs or alterations. ''Shoring'' comes from ''shore'', a timber or metal prop. Shoring ...

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Shovel A shovel is a tool used for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle. Shovel blades are usually made ...

Shovel ready In politics, a shovel ready construction project (usually larger-scale infrastructure) is where planning and engineering is advanced enough that—with sufficient funding—construction can begin within a very short time. The term was popularized ...

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Site survey Site surveys are inspections is an area where work is proposed, to gather information for a design or an estimate to complete the initial tasks required for an outdoor activity. It can determine a precise location, access, best orientation for the ...

Skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...

- Skyscraper design and construction - Slate industry in Wales - Slater - Sledgehammer - Slipform stonemasonry - Slip forming - Smalley - Snecked masonry - Soft story building - Soil cement - Solid ground floor - Sorel cement - Spackling paste - Spirit level - Split-level home -

Spray painting Spray painting is a painting technique in which a device sprays coating material (paint, ink, varnish, etc.) through the air onto a surface. The most common types employ compressed gas—usually air compressor, air—to atomize and direct the pa ...

- Stack effect - Staff - Staffordshire blue brick - Staggered truss system - Staircase jig - Stair tread -

Stairs Stairs are a structure designed to bridge a large vertical direction, vertical distance between lower and higher levels by dividing it into smaller vertical distances. This is achieved as a diagonal series of horizontal platforms called steps wh ...

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Steam shovel A steam shovel is a large steam engine, steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as Rock (geology), rock and soil. It is the earliest type of power shovel or excavator. Steam shovels played a major role in ...

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Steel frame Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame. The develop ...

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Strength of materials Strength may refer to: Personal trait *Physical strength, as in people or animals *Character strengths like those listed in the Values in Action Inventory *The exercise of willpower Physics * Mechanical strength, the ability to withstand ...

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Structural engineering Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and joints' that create the form and shape of human-made Structure#Load-bearing, structures. Structural engineers also ...

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Structural steel Structural steel is steel used for making construction materials in a variety of shapes. Many structural steel shapes take the form of an elongated beam having a profile of a specific cross section (geometry), cross section. Structural steel sha ...

- Structure relocation - Strut channel - Stucco - Submerged arc welding - Submittals (construction), Submittals - Subsidence - Substructure (engineering), Substructure - Suction excavator - Suicide bidding - Sulfur concrete - Superadobe - Superinsulation - Superintendent (construction), Superintendent - Surfaced block - Survey stakes - Sustainability in construction - Sustainable flooring - Sustainable refurbishment

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T-beam - Tabby concrete - Table saw - Tar paper - Teardown (real estate), Teardown - Telescopic handler - Temperley transporter - Temporary fencing - Tented roof - Terraced house - Tetrapod (structure), Tetrapod - Textile-reinforced concrete - Thatching - Thermal bridge - Thermal insulation - Thinset - Thin-shell structure - Three-decker (house), Three-decker - Tie (cavity wall), Tie - Tie down hardware - Tile - Tilt slab - Tilt up - Timber - Timber framing - List of timber framing tools, Timber framing tools - Timber pilings - Timber recycling - Timber roof truss - Tin ceiling - Tiocem - Toe board - Topping out - Townhouse - Tracked loader - Traditional Korean roof construction - Transite - Treadwheel crane - Trench shield - Trencher (machine), Trencher - Trenchless technology - Truss - Tube and clamp scaffold - Tuckpointing - Tunnel boring machine - Tunnel construction - Tunnel hole-through - Tunnel rock recycling - Twig work - Types of concrete

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Umarell - Uncertainties in building design and building energy assessment - Underfloor air distribution - Underground construction - Underpinning - Unfinished building - Uniclass - Uniformat

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Verify in field - Vertical damp proof barrier - Vibro stone column - Vinyl composition tile - Vinyl siding - Virtual design and construction - Vitrified tile - Voided biaxial slab - Volumetric concrete mixer

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Waffle slab - Walking excavator - Wall - Wall chaser - Wall footing - Wall plan - Wall stud - Water–cement ratio - Water heating - Water level (device), Water level - Waterproofing - Wattle and daub - Wearing course - Weathering steel - Weatherization - Weld access hole - Welded wire mesh - Welder - Welding - Welding power supply - Wheel tractor-scraper - White Card - Window capping - Window insulation film - Window well cover - Wiring closet - Wood-plastic composite - Wood shingle - Wool insulation - Wrecking ball - Wrought iron

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