Building Construction and Design

• attic
• backfill
• balloon frame
• baseboard
• bearing wall
• blocking
• blueprint
• board measure
• breast wall
• building codes
• casement window
• center to center
• central heating
• compressive strength
• contractor
• crawlspace
• curtain wall
• dead load
• deflection
• double glazing
• double-hung window
• drafting
• dry wall
• elevation
• ell
• excavation
• fascia
• fixture
• floor plan
• foundation
• grade
• half-timbered
• house drain
• house sewer
• interior trim
• kip
• knee wall
• landing
• live load
• load-bearing wall
• maquette
• mechanical drawing
• mockup
• modular construction
• modular unit
• module
• monolithic
• nonbearing wall
• orientation
• outlet
• overhang
• perspective
• plat
• platform frame
• plot
• post-and-beam construction
• prefabricated
• radiant heating
• retaining wall
• rise
• sandwich wall
• scale
• schedule
• section
• service entrance
• setback
• shear
• slab
• soil pipe
• solar pipe
• solar heat
• sound transmission class
• specifications
• stress
• subfloor
• sump
• tensile strength
• thermostat
• tilt-up
• veneer
• waste pipe
• weather stripping
• weep hole
• working drawings
• zoning