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142 relations: AC power plugs and sockets, Acoustics, Adobe, Alternative natural materials, Architect, Artificial stone, Bamboo construction, Baseboard, Bay window, Beauty, Bookcase, Brick, Brickwork, Building code, Building envelope, Building insulation, Building material, Cabinet (government), Carpentry, Carpet, Casement window, Cement render, Circuit breaker, Cladding (construction), Coffer, Column, Composite material, Compressed earth block, Concrete, Concrete masonry unit, Concrete recycling, Conformal coating, Construction, Construction Specifications Institute, Conveyor system, Curtain wall (architecture), Dado rail, Damp (structural), Deck (building), Decorative arts, Domestic roof construction, Door, Door furniture, Dormer, Dropped ceiling, Drywall, Electrical cable, Electrical connector, Electrical wiring, Elevator, ..., Engineered wood, Escalator, Faux painting, Floor, Folding door, Frame and panel, Framing (construction), Garage (residential), Glass brick, Glued laminated timber, Grating, Grout, Handrail, House painter and decorator, Housewrap, HVAC, I-beam, Joist, Ladder, Lamination, List of commercially available roofing material, List of woods, Log house, Lumber, Marble, Masonry, MasterFormat, Metal, Metal fabrication, Mezzanine, Millwork (building material), Molding (decorative), Mortar (masonry), Mosaic, Mudbrick, Noxer block, Oriented strand board, Paint, Panelling, Parallel strand lumber, Pavement (architecture), Plaster, Plastic, Plumbing, Plywood, Portable building, Prefabricated building, Project manager, Purlin, Quarry tile, Rafter, Rammed earth, Rebar, Red List building materials, Rock (geology), Sash window, Security, Shiplap, Siding, Sill plate, Skylight, Sliding glass door, Staff (building material), Stairs, Steel frame, Structural steel, Strut channel, Stucco, Surface finishing, Switch, Tambour, Technical standard, Telecommunication, Terracotta, Terrazzo, Thermal cutoff, Tile, Timber framing, Tongue and groove, Truss, Wall stud, Wallpaper, Wildfire suppression, Window, Wire rope, Wood, Wood finishing, Wood preservation, Wood stain, Wood veneer, Woodworking, 16 Divisions. Expand index (92 more) »
AC power plugs and sockets
AC power plugs and sockets are devices that allow electrically operated equipment to be connected to the primary alternating current (AC) power supply in a building.
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Acoustics
Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.
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Adobe
Adobe is a building material made from earth and other organic materials.
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Alternative natural materials
Alternative natural materials are natural materials like rock or adobe that are not as commonly in use as materials such as wood or iron.
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.
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Artificial stone
Artificial stone is a name for various kinds of synthetic stone products used from the 18th century onward.
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Bamboo construction
Bamboo can be utilized as a building material as for scaffolding, bridges and houses.
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Baseboard
In architecture, a baseboard (also called skirting board, skirting, mopboard, floor molding, or base molding) is usually wooden or vinyl board covering the lowest part of an interior wall.
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Bay window
A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
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Beauty
Beauty is a characteristic of an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction.
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Bookcase
A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, often in a cabinet, used to store books or other printed materials.
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Brick
A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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Brickwork
Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar.
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Building code
A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures.
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Building envelope
A building envelope is the physical separator between the conditioned and unconditioned environment of a building including the resistance to air, water, heat, light, and noiseSyed, Asif.
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Building insulation
Building insulation is any object in a building used as insulation for any purpose.
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Building material
Building material is any material which is used for construction purposes.
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Cabinet (government)
A cabinet is a body of high-ranking state officials, typically consisting of the top leaders of the executive branch.
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Carpentry
Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.
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Carpet
A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing.
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Casement window
A casement is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side.
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Cement render
Cement rendering is the application of a premixed layer of sand and cement to brick, cement, stone, or mud brick.
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Circuit breaker
A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by excess current from an overload or short circuit.
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Cladding (construction)
Cladding is the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer.
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Coffer
A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault.
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Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.
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Composite material
A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.
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Compressed earth block
A compressed earth block (CEB), also known as a pressed earth block or a compressed soil block, is a building material made primarily from damp soil compressed at high pressure to form blocks.
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Concrete
Concrete, usually Portland cement concrete, is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time—most frequently a lime-based cement binder, such as Portland cement, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement.
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Concrete masonry unit
A concrete masonry unit (CMU) is a standard size rectangular block used in building construction.
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Concrete recycling
When structures made of concrete are demolished or renovated, concrete recycling is an increasingly common method of utilizing the rubble.
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Conformal coating
Conformal coating material is a thin polymeric film which ‘conforms’ to the contours of a printed circuit board to protect the board's components.
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Construction
Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure.
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Construction Specifications Institute
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) is an organization that keeps and changes the standardization of construction language as it pertains to building specifications.
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Conveyor system
A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another.
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Curtain wall (architecture)
A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, utilized to keep the weather out and the occupants in.
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Dado rail
A dado rail, also known as a chair rail or surbase, is a type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a room.
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Damp (structural)
Structural dampness is the presence of unwanted moisture in the structure of a building, either the result of intrusion from outside or condensation from within the structure.
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Deck (building)
In architecture, a deck is a flat surface capable of supporting weight, similar to a floor, but typically constructed outdoors, often elevated from the ground, and usually connected to a building.
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Decorative arts
The decorative arts are arts or crafts concerned with the design and manufacture of beautiful objects that are also functional.
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Domestic roof construction
Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most suburban detached houses in cold and temperate climates.
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Door
A door is a moving mechanism used to block off and allow access to, an entrance to or within an enclosed space, such as a building, room or vehicle.
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Door furniture
Door furniture (British and Australian English) or door hardware (North American English) refers to any of the items that are attached to a door or a drawer to enhance its functionality or appearance.
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Dormer
A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.
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Dropped ceiling
A dropped ceiling is a secondary ceiling, hung below the main (structural) ceiling.
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Drywall
Drywall (also known as plasterboard, wallboard, gypsum panel, sheet rock, or gypsum board) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (gypsum), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of facer and backer paper, utilized in the construction of interior walls and ceilings.
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Electrical cable
An electrical cable is an assembly of one or more wires running side by side or bundled, which is used to carry electric current.
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Electrical connector
An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join electrical terminations and create an electrical circuit.
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Electrical wiring
Electrical wiring is an electrical installation of cabling and associated devices such as switches, distribution boards, sockets and light fittings in a structure.
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Elevator
An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.
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Engineered wood
Engineered wood, also called composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the strands, particles, fibres, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of fixation to form composite materials.
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Escalator
An escalator is a type of vertical transportation in the form of a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building.
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Faux painting
Faux painting or faux finishing are terms used to describe decorative paint finishes that replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or stone.
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Floor
A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle or even possibly the surface on which people dance, commonly referred to as a 'dance floor'.
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Folding door
A folding door is a type of door which opens by folding back in sections or so-called panels.
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Frame and panel
Frame and panel construction, also called rail and stile, is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes.
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Framing (construction)
Framing, in construction, is the fitting together of pieces to give a structure support and shape.
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Garage (residential)
A residential garage is a walled, roofed structure for storing a vehicle or vehicles that may be part of or attached to a home ("attached garage"), or a separate outbuilding or shed ("detached garage").
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Glass brick
Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass.
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Glued laminated timber
Glued laminated timber, also called glulam, is a type of structural engineered wood product comprising a number of layers of dimensioned lumber bonded together with durable, moisture-resistant structural adhesives.
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Grating
A grating is any regularly spaced collection of essentially identical, parallel, elongated elements.
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Grout
Grout is a fluid form of concrete used to fill gaps.
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Handrail
A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide stability or support.
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House painter and decorator
A house painter and decorator is a tradesman responsible for the painting and decorating of buildings, and is also known as a decorator or house painter.
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Housewrap
Housewrap (or house wrap) generally denotes a synthetic material used to protect buildings.
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HVAC
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular environmental comfort.
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I-beam
An -beam, also known as H-beam (for universal column, UC), w-beam (for "wide flange"), universal beam (UB), rolled steel joist (RSJ), or double-T (especially in Polish, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian and German), is a beam with an or H-shaped cross-section.
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Joist
A joist is a horizontal structural member used in framing to span an open space, often between beams that subsequently transfer loads to vertical members.
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Ladder
A ladder is a vertical or inclined set of rungs or steps.
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Lamination
Lamination is the technique of manufacturing a material in multiple layers, so that the composite material achieves improved strength, stability, sound insulation, appearance or other properties from the use of differing materials.
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List of commercially available roofing material
Roofing material is the outermost layer on the roof of a building, sometimes self-supporting, but generally supported by an underlying structure.
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List of woods
This is a list of woods, in particular those most commonly used in the timber and lumber trade.
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Log house
A log house, or log building, is a structure built with horizontal logs interlocked at the corners by notching.
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Lumber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.
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Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units, which are often laid in and bound together by mortar; the term masonry can also refer to the units themselves.
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MasterFormat
MasterFormat is a standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada.
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Metal
A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.
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Metal fabrication
Metal fabrication is the building of metal structures by cutting, bending, and assembling processes.
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Mezzanine
A mezzanine (or in French, an entresol) is, strictly speaking, an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building.
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Millwork (building material)
Millwork building materials are historically any woodmill-produced building construction interior-finish, exterior-finish, or decorative components.
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Molding (decorative)
Moulding (also spelled molding in the United States though usually not within the industry), also known as coving (United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration.
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Mortar (masonry)
Mortar is a workable paste used to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units together, fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, and sometimes add decorative colors or patterns in masonry walls.
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Mosaic
A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.
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Mudbrick
A mudbrick or mud-brick is a brick, made of a mixture of loam, mud, sand and water mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.
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Noxer block
Noxer blocks are concrete pavers that feature a 5-7 mm thick coating of titanium dioxide (TiO2) atop a cement mortar layer.
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Oriented strand board
Oriented strand board (OSB), also known as flakeboard, sterling board and aspenite in British English, is a type of engineered wood similar to particle board, formed by adding adhesives and then compressing layers of wood strands (flakes) in specific orientations.
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Paint
Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film.
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Panelling
Panelling (or paneling in the U.S.) is a millwork wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components.
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Parallel strand lumber
Parallel strand lumber (PSL) is a form of engineered wood made from parallel wood strands bonded together with adhesive.
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Pavement (architecture)
Pavement, in construction, is an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering.
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Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
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Plastic
Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.
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Plumbing
Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications.
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Plywood
Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.
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Portable building
A portable, demountable or transportable building, is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located.
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Prefabricated building
A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication.
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Project manager
A project manager is a professional in the field of project management.
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Purlin
In architecture, structural engineering or building, a purlin (or historically purline, purloyne, purling, perling) is any longitudinal, horizontal, structural member in a roof except a type of framing with what is called a crown plate.
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Quarry tile
Quarry tile is a building construction material, usually to inch (13 to 19 mm) thick, made by the extrusion process from natural clay or shales.
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Rafter
A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
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Rammed earth
Rammed earth, also known as taipa in Portuguese, tapial or tapia in Spanish, pisé (de terre) in French, and hangtu, is a technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls using natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime, or gravel.
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Rebar
Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), collectively known as reinforcing steel and reinforcement steel, is a steel bar or mesh of steel wires used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and hold the concrete in compression.
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Red List building materials
Red List Building Materials contain chemicals that have been designated as harmful to living creatures, including humans, or the environment.
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Rock (geology)
Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
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Sash window
A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes", that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes (or "lights") by glazing bars, also known as muntins in the US (moulded strips of wood).
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Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces.
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Shiplap
Shiplap is a type of wooden board used commonly as exterior siding in the construction of residences, barns, sheds, and outbuildings.
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Siding
Siding or wall cladding is the protective material attached to the exterior side of a wall of a house or other building.
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Sill plate
A sill plate or sole plate in construction and architecture is the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached.
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Skylight
Skylights are light transmitting fenestration (elements filling building envelope openings) forming all, or a portion of, the roof of a building's space for daylighting purposes.
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Sliding glass door
A sliding glass door or patio door, is a type of sliding door in architecture and construction, is a large glass window opening in a structure that provide door access from a room to the outdoors, fresh air, and copious natural light.
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Staff (building material)
Staff is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting temporary buildings.
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Stairs
A stairway, staircase, stairwell, flight of stairs, or simply stairs is a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps.
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Steel frame
Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal ibeam-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.
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Structural steel
Structural steel is a category of steel used for making construction materials in a variety of shapes.
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Strut channel
Strut channel, often referred to colloquially by one of several manufacturer trade names, (e.g."VERSABAR", "G-STRUT", "Kindorf", "Unistrut", "Superstrut", "UltraSTRUT", "Strut", "Metstrut", "Flexstrut", "JIKAstrut", "Nu-Strut", "Cantruss", "C-Channel", "Canstrut", "Hilti Strut", "ChampionStrut"), is a standardized formed structural system used in the construction and electrical industries for light structural support, often for supporting wiring, plumbing, or mechanical components such as air conditioning or ventilation systems.
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Stucco
Stucco or render is a material made of aggregates, a binder and water.
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Surface finishing
Surface finishing is a broad range of industrial processes that alter the surface of a manufactured item to achieve a certain property.
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Switch
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can "make" or "break" an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.
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Tambour
In classical architecture, a tambour (Fr.: "drum") is the inverted bell of the Corinthian capital around which are carved acanthus leaves for decoration.
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Technical standard
A technical standard is an established norm or requirement in regard to technical systems.
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, terra cotta or terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cocta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.
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Terrazzo
Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments.
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Thermal cutoff
A thermal cutoff is an electrical safety device that interrupts electric current when heated to a specific temperature.
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Tile
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops.
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Timber framing
Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.
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Tongue and groove
Tongue and groove is a method of fitting similar objects together, edge to edge, used mainly with wood, in flooring, parquetry, panelling, and similar constructions.
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Truss
In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object".
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Wall stud
A wall stud is a vertical framing member in a building's wall of smaller cross section than a post.
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Wallpaper
Wallpaper is a material used in interior decoration to decorate the interior walls of domestic and public buildings.
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Wildfire suppression
Wildfire suppression is a range of firefighting tactics used to suppress wildfires.
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Window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light, sound, and air.
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Wire rope
Steel wire rope (right hand langs lay) Wire rope is several strands of metal wire twisted into a helix forming a composite "rope", in a pattern known as "laid rope".
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Wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
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Wood finishing
Wood finishing refers to the process of refining or protecting a wooden surface, especially in the production of furniture where typically it represents between 5 and 30% of manufacturing costs.
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Wood preservation
All measures that are taken to ensure a long life of wood fall under the definition wood preservation (timber treatment).
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Wood stain
A wood stain consists of colourants dissolved and/or suspended in a 'vehicle' or solvent.
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Wood veneer
In woodworking, veneer refers to thin slices of wood, usually thinner than 3 mm (1/8 inch), that typically are glued onto core panels (typically, wood, particle board or medium-density fiberboard) to produce flat panels such as doors, tops and panels for cabinets, parquet floors and parts of furniture.
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Woodworking
Woodworking is the activity or skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.
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16 Divisions
16 Divisions refers to the 16 divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_materials
