2025 Construction Engineering Review Questions and Answers
1.Horizontal Control: This is commonly identified as primary, secondary
and work- ing control on the jobsite.
2.Batching: The process of proportioning the cement, water,
aggregates and ad- ditives prior to mixing concrete.
3.Pile: It is nothing more than a column driven into the soil to support
a structure by transferring building loads to a deeper and stronger
layer of soil or rock.
4.Transverse cracks: Cracks approximately at right angles to the
pavement cen- terline, caused by shrinkage or differential thermal
stress of the asphalt concrete or reflective cracks.
5.Screeding: To level a floor or layer of concrete with a straight
edge using a back-and-forth motion while moving across the
surface.
6.Raveling: Wearing way of the pavement surface caused by dislodging
of aggre- gate particles and binder, usually a result of insufficient
asphalt binder in the mix or stripping of asphalt from particles of
aggregate.
7.Batching: The most important process to prepare concrete.
8.Slump test: A test to determine the relative consistency of concrete.
9.Specifications: These are written instructions detailing how the
facility is to be constructed.
10.Curing: A construction operation that protects concrete so that
,moisture is not lost during the early stages of hardening, keeping it at a
temperature that promotes hydration.
11.Safe design: Which of the following are the concept of safe design for
construc- tion?
I. The design of the structure to be built.
II.The subsystem to be included in the structure (electrical, mechanical,
plumbing, etc.)
III.The equipment involved in building the structure.
IV.The on-site facilities such as man lifts, elevators, concrete batch
plants and rock crushing/gravel processing or asphalt plants.
V. The manpower of the structure.
A. All of the above
B. III, IV & V
C. I, II, III & IV
D.I, III, IV & V
12.Shrinkage: It occurs as concrete hardens, being greater in wet mixes.
Curing helps to limit effects and therefore concrete in the actual
structure should be thoroughly and continuously moistened for some
considerable period after placing.
13.Prime coat: The single initial application of bituminous material to
an existing bituminous, Portland concrete, or block surface or base.
14.B. mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical: The sound creaks and
groans that one hears inside the building are in fact materials response
to external stimuli such as heart, wind and gravity loads. These stimuli
, fall into four categories. What are these major properties that exhibited
by materials?
A. temperature, thermal, conductivity and ductility
B. mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical
C. ionic bonding, metallic bonding covalent bonding and secondary
bonding
D.atoms, ions, electron and molecules
15.C. I, II, III, IV: Compacting applies energy to soil to consolidate it by
compressing air voids to increase the soil's dry density. Which of these
are the objectives of proper compacting?
I. Minimize settling
II. Increases the soil's load bearing characteristics
III. Increases soil stability
IV.Reduces water penetration
V.Protects slope that will drain water away
A. I, III, IV, V
B. II, III, IV, V
C. I, II, III, IV
D.all of these
16.Formworks: the form or mold used in building construction to hold
concrete before it sets.
17.damping: a measure of a material's ability to dissipate or deaden
mechanical vibrations.
18.D. All of the above: The safe capacity of piles driven by powered
1.Horizontal Control: This is commonly identified as primary, secondary
and work- ing control on the jobsite.
2.Batching: The process of proportioning the cement, water,
aggregates and ad- ditives prior to mixing concrete.
3.Pile: It is nothing more than a column driven into the soil to support
a structure by transferring building loads to a deeper and stronger
layer of soil or rock.
4.Transverse cracks: Cracks approximately at right angles to the
pavement cen- terline, caused by shrinkage or differential thermal
stress of the asphalt concrete or reflective cracks.
5.Screeding: To level a floor or layer of concrete with a straight
edge using a back-and-forth motion while moving across the
surface.
6.Raveling: Wearing way of the pavement surface caused by dislodging
of aggre- gate particles and binder, usually a result of insufficient
asphalt binder in the mix or stripping of asphalt from particles of
aggregate.
7.Batching: The most important process to prepare concrete.
8.Slump test: A test to determine the relative consistency of concrete.
9.Specifications: These are written instructions detailing how the
facility is to be constructed.
10.Curing: A construction operation that protects concrete so that
,moisture is not lost during the early stages of hardening, keeping it at a
temperature that promotes hydration.
11.Safe design: Which of the following are the concept of safe design for
construc- tion?
I. The design of the structure to be built.
II.The subsystem to be included in the structure (electrical, mechanical,
plumbing, etc.)
III.The equipment involved in building the structure.
IV.The on-site facilities such as man lifts, elevators, concrete batch
plants and rock crushing/gravel processing or asphalt plants.
V. The manpower of the structure.
A. All of the above
B. III, IV & V
C. I, II, III & IV
D.I, III, IV & V
12.Shrinkage: It occurs as concrete hardens, being greater in wet mixes.
Curing helps to limit effects and therefore concrete in the actual
structure should be thoroughly and continuously moistened for some
considerable period after placing.
13.Prime coat: The single initial application of bituminous material to
an existing bituminous, Portland concrete, or block surface or base.
14.B. mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical: The sound creaks and
groans that one hears inside the building are in fact materials response
to external stimuli such as heart, wind and gravity loads. These stimuli
, fall into four categories. What are these major properties that exhibited
by materials?
A. temperature, thermal, conductivity and ductility
B. mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical
C. ionic bonding, metallic bonding covalent bonding and secondary
bonding
D.atoms, ions, electron and molecules
15.C. I, II, III, IV: Compacting applies energy to soil to consolidate it by
compressing air voids to increase the soil's dry density. Which of these
are the objectives of proper compacting?
I. Minimize settling
II. Increases the soil's load bearing characteristics
III. Increases soil stability
IV.Reduces water penetration
V.Protects slope that will drain water away
A. I, III, IV, V
B. II, III, IV, V
C. I, II, III, IV
D.all of these
16.Formworks: the form or mold used in building construction to hold
concrete before it sets.
17.damping: a measure of a material's ability to dissipate or deaden
mechanical vibrations.
18.D. All of the above: The safe capacity of piles driven by powered
