LESSON 1
CONSTRUCTION PRINT READING - BUILDING
LAYOUT AND SUBSTRUCTURES
CREDIT HOURS ............................................. 3
TEXT ASSIGNMENT...................................... Attached memorandum.
MATERIALS REQUIRED .............................. None.
SUGGESTIONS ............................................... Pay particular attention to nomenclature.
A construction
supervisor must be thoroughly familiar with the names of
building members.
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this lesson you should be
causes of deterioration, standard sizes, grades, and
able to accomplish the following in the indicated
the meaning and method of calculating board feet.
topic areas:
3. Methods of fastening.
Describe the
different methods commonly used for fastening wood
1. Prints and drawings. Read and interpret
and the circumstances under which each type would
correctly, construction prints and architectural
be used.
drawings.
4. Building layout. Supervise the layout of a
2. Lumber. Define the different types of
fame building from the installation of batter boards
wood, good and bad features of each type, defect,
through laying of the subfloor.
ATTACHED MEMORANDUM
b. Semipermanent buildings are those
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TYPES OF BUILDINGS
which by the design, use of materials and equipment,
Army regulations classify all buildings
and methods of construction will, with normal
constructed or used by the Army as permanent,
maintenance, provide structures with an economic
semipermanent, or temporary.
The basis for
life of less than 25 years and more than 5 years.
classification is as follows:
c. Temporary buildings are those which by
design and the use of minimum-quality materials,
a. Permanent buildings are those which
equipment, and methods of construction will, with
are laid out and designed to have a degree of
minimum maintenance, provide structures with an
structural adequacy, durability, and service-ability to
economic life of 5 years or less. This group of
assure a useful life of 25 years or more with low
buildings includes:
maintenance and service expenditures.
(1) Factory-fabricated type buildings
which can be readily erected and dismantled.
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