COSC 275 PALMER COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Subgrade - ✔✔Slab + void boxes
✔✔Auger cast pile - ✔✔Drills all the way down and pumps grout in at the same time.
More expensive than
drilled piers.
✔✔Spread footing - ✔✔Economical way, shallow foundation used to spread the load to
columns/ walls over
large area.
✔✔Pile function - ✔✔Transfer heavy loads to a solid level, can be precast, H beam,
timber, steel.
✔✔Drilled shafts - ✔✔Cast in place skin friction and sometimes have bell shape.
✔✔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.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Subgrade - ✔✔Slab + void boxes
✔✔Auger cast pile - ✔✔Drills all the way down and pumps grout in at the same time.
More expensive than
drilled piers.
✔✔Spread footing - ✔✔Economical way, shallow foundation used to spread the load to
columns/ walls over
large area.
✔✔Pile function - ✔✔Transfer heavy loads to a solid level, can be precast, H beam,
timber, steel.
✔✔Drilled shafts - ✔✔Cast in place skin friction and sometimes have bell shape.
✔✔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.
