1. Air Barrier Unit – a membrane that is attached to the wall sheathing
reducing the leakage of air between indoors and outdoors and acts as a
backup waterproofing layer beneath the siding

2. Attic ventilation – used to lower the temperature and vent the attic
Ridge Vent Gable Vent
Soffit Vent Roof Turbine

3. Backhoe – excavating equipment that consists of a digging bucket on one end
and a front loader on the other
Backhoe
Bucket: 24”
Front End
Loader

4. Brick arches
Jack arch
Roman arch centered with
keystone

5. Brick Bonds
English Garden Wall –
5 courses of running
bonds wchich consist
of all stretchers and
the 6th course
Header alternates between
headers and
stretchers
Running Bond –
courses consist of
stretchers
Soldier
Sailor
Stretcher

6. Brick Sizes
3-1/2” X15-1/2”
Closest to the
Engineer
Norman Brick.
This is different
because it is a
South American
hand made
adobe brick
7-1/2 x 2-1/4
Modular
Brick

7. Cladding
Wood boards Brick
Wood shingle and Stone
shake – a nail
based sheathing
material such as
OSB, plywood, or
waferboard that
function as siding
or roofing.
Picture: Wood
shakes

8. Concrete Joints
Control
Joint Crack
Isolation Joint – the exterior of
the building is being isolated
from the slab

9. Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) – large rectangular concrete blocks that are
used as structural masonry
Standard CMU – 8”

10. Decorative Concrete Masonry
Split faced

11. Doors
Flush Door Panel Door (1) with sidelight

12. Electrical Components Service Head - a weatherproof
entry point for above-ground Meter – measures the amount of electrical
electrical wiring or telephone energy consumed. It is calibrated in billing
lines into a home or business units
Duplex receptacle –
two electrical fitting
Service panel –
that is connected to a
the high voltage
source of power and
electrical
equipped to receive an
system’s first
insert
point of entry
into a home
beyond the
meter

13. Framing Elements
1. Anchor bolt 11. Roof decking 10. Truss with ceiling joist and
2. sill plate 12. Sheathing rafter
7. Top 9. Ceiling
Plateo Joist
6. Stud
3. Floor joist
4. Sub flooring
5. Sole plate

14. Front End Loader – a type of tractor that has a front mounted square wide
bucket connected to the end of two booms to scoop up loose material from
the ground

15. Gypsum Board
• a rigid board made of layers of fiber board or
paper bonded to a gypsum plaster core, used
instead of plaster or wood panels in
construction to form walls

16. Heat Pump
compressor/ evaporator – takes in air at atmospheric pressure and delivers it at higher pressure,
absorbs heat in the air in order to change the liquid refrigerant that flows through into a vapor
Air handling unit – used to condition and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and
air-conditioning system

17. Insulation - materials that are used to reduce the rate of heat transfer
Loose Fill Insulation

18. Lintel – a horizontal beam that supports the masonry above a window or
door opening
Angled steel
lintel
Concrete
lintel

19. Mortar
3/8” Concave
mortar joint –
tooled. Used of a
commercial
building
3/8” extruded
mortar joint –
neither tooled
nor troweled.
Used on a
residential
building.

20. OSB – Oriented Strand Board - a non-veneered panel product that is formed
by layereing strands or flakes of wood in specific orientation

21. Plumbing
Drop-In sink

22. Plywood – a manufactured wood, made by gluing together a number of thin
veneers or plies of softwood or hardwood

23. Rebar – ½” diameter or #4 rebar. The deformations is so that it would bind to
the concrete

24. Steep Roof Drainage
Gutter – catches water that flows down
the roof
Down spout – allows a way for water to
exit the roof to the ground
Down Spout and Splashback

25. Steep Roof Materials
Metal panel roof - steel
Clay tiled roof - Shingle
Underlayment – tar paper
used for waterproofing to
prevent ingress of
moisture

26. Steep Roof Shapes
Mansard Roof Gable Roof
Gambrel
Hip roof Roof

27. Steep Roof Terms

28. Stone -
Random Rubble
Random Ashlar

29. Vapor Retarder
• slow the rate of vapor diffusion into the
thermal envelope of a structure
• It is attached to each side of the insulation

30. Waterproofing – fully adhered material to resist moisture from entering the base of
the building

31. Weep Holes - small openings left in the outer wall of masonryconstruction as
an outlet for water inside a building to move outside the wall and evaporate

32. Windows
Double hung casement – Single Hung –
neither window is hinged
allowing them to slide past
Hinged on the side
each other