COSC 275 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Sonotube - ✔✔A product consisting of a preformed casing made of laminated,
waxed paper; used to form
cylindrical piers or columns. Use if column extends out of the ground. Or "top 2' formed"
so the column does not mess up.
✔✔Pilaster - ✔✔A column built within a wall, usually projecting beyond the wall.
✔✔Spoil - ✔✔dirt/rock removed from drilling
✔✔(Finish x Thickness)/27 - ✔✔CY of Concrete
✔✔Spoils, concrete, excavation, backfill - ✔✔in CY
✔✔Formwork for pilaster & grade beams, void form for pilaster, protection board, vapor
barrier, glass, ceiling, drywall, curtain wall - ✔✔in SF
✔✔Pans, sonotube, void form for grade beam, dovetail, - ✔✔in LF
✔✔Rebar, asphalt paving - ✔✔in Tons
✔✔Carpet, asphalt paving - ✔✔in SY
✔✔Doors, braces - ✔✔in EA
✔✔IFB - ✔✔Issue for bid documents
✔✔NOI - ✔✔Notice of intent
✔✔NOT - ✔✔Notice of termination.
✔✔TCEQ - ✔✔Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
✔✔AHJ - ✔✔Authority Having Jurisdiction
✔✔CFMF - ✔✔Cold Formed Metal Framing
✔✔BOD - ✔✔Bottom of Deck
✔✔SJI - ✔✔Steel Joist Institute
, ✔✔TCA - ✔✔Tilt Up Concrete Association
✔✔UNO - ✔✔Unless noted otherwise
✔✔NTS - ✔✔Not to scale
✔✔NIC - ✔✔Not in contract
✔✔NTP - ✔✔Notice to procced
✔✔PSI - ✔✔Pounds per square Inch
✔✔CY - ✔✔Cubic Yards
✔✔LF - ✔✔Linear Foot
✔✔SF - ✔✔Square Foot
✔✔EA - ✔✔Each
✔✔TYP - ✔✔Typical
✔✔Parametric estimating - ✔✔determined by identifying the unit cost or duration and
the number of units required for the project or activity.
✔✔ Estimating - ✔✔The process of determining the anticipated cost of materials, labor,
and equipment of a proposed project.
✔✔Take-off - ✔✔The process in which detailed lists are compiled, based on drawings
and specifications, of all the material and equipment necessary to construct a project.
The cost estimator uses this list to calculate how much it will cost to build the project.
✔✔Quantities - ✔✔Measured amounts of construction items expressed in their
customary units.
✔✔Quantification - ✔✔In estimating an activity to translate project scope information
into resource quantities suitable for
✔✔Quantity survey - ✔✔A detailed analysis of material and equipment required to
construct a project.
✔✔Area - ✔✔A measurement of a given planar region or of the surface of a solid.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Sonotube - ✔✔A product consisting of a preformed casing made of laminated,
waxed paper; used to form
cylindrical piers or columns. Use if column extends out of the ground. Or "top 2' formed"
so the column does not mess up.
✔✔Pilaster - ✔✔A column built within a wall, usually projecting beyond the wall.
✔✔Spoil - ✔✔dirt/rock removed from drilling
✔✔(Finish x Thickness)/27 - ✔✔CY of Concrete
✔✔Spoils, concrete, excavation, backfill - ✔✔in CY
✔✔Formwork for pilaster & grade beams, void form for pilaster, protection board, vapor
barrier, glass, ceiling, drywall, curtain wall - ✔✔in SF
✔✔Pans, sonotube, void form for grade beam, dovetail, - ✔✔in LF
✔✔Rebar, asphalt paving - ✔✔in Tons
✔✔Carpet, asphalt paving - ✔✔in SY
✔✔Doors, braces - ✔✔in EA
✔✔IFB - ✔✔Issue for bid documents
✔✔NOI - ✔✔Notice of intent
✔✔NOT - ✔✔Notice of termination.
✔✔TCEQ - ✔✔Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
✔✔AHJ - ✔✔Authority Having Jurisdiction
✔✔CFMF - ✔✔Cold Formed Metal Framing
✔✔BOD - ✔✔Bottom of Deck
✔✔SJI - ✔✔Steel Joist Institute
, ✔✔TCA - ✔✔Tilt Up Concrete Association
✔✔UNO - ✔✔Unless noted otherwise
✔✔NTS - ✔✔Not to scale
✔✔NIC - ✔✔Not in contract
✔✔NTP - ✔✔Notice to procced
✔✔PSI - ✔✔Pounds per square Inch
✔✔CY - ✔✔Cubic Yards
✔✔LF - ✔✔Linear Foot
✔✔SF - ✔✔Square Foot
✔✔EA - ✔✔Each
✔✔TYP - ✔✔Typical
✔✔Parametric estimating - ✔✔determined by identifying the unit cost or duration and
the number of units required for the project or activity.
✔✔ Estimating - ✔✔The process of determining the anticipated cost of materials, labor,
and equipment of a proposed project.
✔✔Take-off - ✔✔The process in which detailed lists are compiled, based on drawings
and specifications, of all the material and equipment necessary to construct a project.
The cost estimator uses this list to calculate how much it will cost to build the project.
✔✔Quantities - ✔✔Measured amounts of construction items expressed in their
customary units.
✔✔Quantification - ✔✔In estimating an activity to translate project scope information
into resource quantities suitable for
✔✔Quantity survey - ✔✔A detailed analysis of material and equipment required to
construct a project.
✔✔Area - ✔✔A measurement of a given planar region or of the surface of a solid.
