Questions and Answers.
Heavy Civil construction projects are typically designed by _________ engineers? - Answer
civil
What are the 5 basic sectors of the construction industry? - Answer Residential
Commercial
Heavy Civil
Industrial
Environmental
Strategy = _______ - Answer Plan
The _______________ building sector includes banks, schools, office buildings, hotels, shopping
malls, religious facilities, baseball stadiums, theaters, universities, amusement parks, hospitals,
courthouses, government buildings, and other facilities where people gather. - Answer
commercial
The residential sector requires __________ knowledge in regards to the home building
business. - Answer the broadest
Does funding for commercial building projects come from: private, public, or combined in a
special private-public partnership? - Answer True
Which general categories of individual home builders constructs almost 80 percent of the
homes in the United States? - Answer Production Builders
What are the three general categories of individual home builders? - Answer custom builders
single-family small-volume builders
single-family production builders
_____________ Construction is highly specialized in the creation of manufacturing plants, oil
refineries and electrical generating facilities. - Answer Industrial
Select four differences between residential and commercial construction means and methods? -
Answer special construction processes
,special training
required trades
equipment needs
Why is there very little wood used in larger commercial construction projects? - Answer fire-
resistant design standards
Large single-family production builders can generating annual revenues and profits surpassing
those of many large ____________ ____________ companies. - Answer commercial
construction
What is the project duration for a typical single-family home? - Answer 3-6 months
_______________ contractors are rarely involved in the sales or marketing or land acquisition
components of the project. - Answer commercial
Heavy Civil projects are usually ____________ funded projects and tend to last for a long time. -
Answer publicly
Individuals involved in the environmental construction sector of not only need to be familiar
with construction means, methods, and management but also need to be familiar with the
___________. - Answer law
Although many other industries assist in creating the built environment, who ultimately delivers
it? - Answer Construction
Besides budget what are Owners of a commercial construction project most concerned with? -
Answer meeting the schedule
This course is designed to be engaging, interesting and helpful by utilizing 4 instructional design
components - Answer Reading
Reflecting
Doing
Displaying
Apartments, condominiums, and townhouses are all referred to as _________ - ________
dwellings. - Answer multi-family
, Owners are accountable for four primary duties; select the four below. - Answer overall
budget
program
quantity, extent, and character of the project
funding
The shortage of skilled workers immediately impacts the ability of the construction manager to
deliver a quality product on time and within budget to the_________. - Answer owner
Who are the three principle players on a typical construction project? - Answer owner
designer
contractor
Construction work that is performed with the general contractor's own forces or labor. This is
work that is not subcontracted. - Answer self-performing work
__________ contractor, enters into a contract with the owner to deliver the construction
project in accordance with the plans and specifications that have been prepared by the
architects and engineers. - Answer Prime
A ________ ____________ may be employed by construction management firms, general
contractors, architects, engineers, owners, or specialty contractors. The primary responsibility
of the ___________ ____________ is to organize the project team to perform the construction
management function that is the topic of this entire book and course - Answer construction
manger
The parameters defining the overall extent of work to be included in a construction contract;
commonly communicated through construction plans and written specifications. - Answer
scope of work
Every design starts with a ___________; which is a written statement that identifies and
describes an owner or end user's needs and requirements for a facility. - Answer program
What are the two types of owners? - Answer Public & Private
Architects deal with the function, life safety issues, and aesthetics of the building, and engineers
deal with the systems. - Answer True