1. ___________ are a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams used to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions.
a) Elevations
b) Plans
c) Plotting
d) Sketching
Explanation: Plans are often for technical purposes such as architecture, engineering, or planning. Their purpose in these disciplines is to accurately and unambiguously capture all the geometric features of a site, building, product or component. Plans can also be for presentation or orientation purposes, and as such are often less detailed versions of the former. The end goal of plans is either to portray an existing place or object, or to convey enough information to allow a builder or manufacturer to realize a design
2. Which type of estimate is prepared by calculating building area and then multiplying area by predefined unit cost?
a) Unit Based Estimate
b) Model estimate
c) Project Comparison Estimate
d) Parametric estimate
Explanation: This type of estimate is prepared by calculating building area and then multiplying area by predefined unit cost. And then adjusted the cost by considering building height, length, width and other necessary building components. Required documents for preparing this type of estimate is a simple floor plan with measurement and key elevation of the building. This type of estimation is used to check whether the project was designed within owner’s budget
3. Name the method, where an estimator prepares estimate of proposed project by comparing similar completed project.
a) Model estimate
b) Parametric estimate
c) Project Comparison Estimate
d) Detail Estimate
Explanation: In this method, an estimator prepares estimate of proposed project by comparing similar completed project. After preparing the comparison estimate, estimator makes adjustment for variation of proposed project with the completed project.
4. In case of laying gullies, siphons, intercepting traps, the cost also includes __________
a) setting and laying
b) bed concreting
c) connection to drains
d) setting, laying, bed concreting and connection to drains
Explanation: A gully is a landform created by running water, eroding sharply into soil, typically on a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in depth and width.
The word siphon is used to refer to a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes. In a narrower sense, the word refers particularly to a tube in an inverted ‘U’ shape, which causes a liquid to flow upward, above the surface of a reservoir, with no pump, but powered by the fall of the liquid as it flows down the tube under the pull of gravity, then discharging at a level lower than the surface of the reservoir from which it came.
Intercepting traps fitted in the length of a house drain, close to its connection to the sewer, which provides a water seal against foul gases rising up into the drain.
5. Unlike regular arches, jack arches are not semicircular in form.
a) False
b) True
Explanation: Figure showing jack arch
6. An apartment (or flat in Britain and most other Common wealth countries) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building.
a) True
b) False
Explanation: Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex, flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally, mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. In Scotland, it is called a block of flats or, if it is a traditional sandstone building, a tenement, a term which has a pejorative connotation in the United States. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier, by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).
7. The most reliable estimate is Cube rate estimate.
a) True
b) False
Explanation: The most reliable estimate is detailed estimate. Detailed estimating, sometimes referred to as “Prime Cost”, “Bottoms Up” or “Grass Roots” estimating requires a thorough and detailed analysis of all the tasks required to deliver a project or product. The estimate can be developed using a combination of estimating methods
8. The damp proof course (D.P.C.) is measured in Sq m.
a) True
b) False
Explanation: General principles to be observed while laying damp proof course are:
i. The DPC should cover full thickness of walls excluding rendering.
ii. The mortar bed upon which the DPC is to be laid should be made level, even and free from projections. Uneven base is likely to cause damage to DPC.
iii. When a horizontal DPC is to be continued up a vertical face a cement concrete fillet 75mm in radius should be provided at the junction prior to the treatment.
iv. Each DPC should be placed in correct relation to other DPC so as to ensure complete and continuous barrier to the passage of water from floors, walls or roof.
9. The fixed arch is most often used in reinforced concrete bridge and tunnel construction, where the spans are short.
a) False
b) True
Explanation: Because it is subject to additional internal stress caused by thermal expansion and contraction, this type of arch is considered to be statically indeterminate.
10. An arch is a pure compression form.
a) True
b) False
Explanation: It can span a large area by resolving forces into compressive stresses and, in turn eliminating tensile stresses. This is sometimes referred to as arch action. As the forces in the arch are carried to the ground, the arch will push outward at the base, called thrust. As the rise, or height of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases. In order to maintain arch action and prevent the arch from collapsing, the thrust needs to be restrained, either with internal ties or external bracing, such as abutments.