Building Construction Questions and Answers in Quiz Form 8 for Practice

106. A.............is very useful equipment and it can be used for construction work like to clear the site of work, to make the land level, etc.

1. Scraper
2. Grader
3. Excavator
4. Bulldozer

107. A...............can be used on wet ground and in all conditions of weather.

1. Grader
2. Scraper
3. Escalator
4. Bulldozer

108. A square pit, known as................with side as about 1.50 m, is excavated upto a depth at which sufficiently hard soil is available.

1. Test pits
2. Probing
3. Test piles
4. Deep boring

109. A city supply includes

1. Domestic water demand
2. Industrial and commercial water demands
3. Demand for public uses and fire
4. All the above

110. A building that does not have symmetry & plan, elevation, geometry mass on load is called

1. irregular building
2. regular building
3. None of these
4. All of these

111. .........is the top most part of building which provides covering to the entire assembly and the occupants.

1. Roof
2. Ceiling
3. Coping
4. Parapet wall

112. ..........is very useful equipment and it can be used for construction work like to clear the site of work, to make the land level, etc.

1. Scraper
2. Grader
3. Excavator
4. Bulldozer

113. ............is a self propelled machine which is used mainly to exert a powerful tractive force for pulling other machines.

1. Tractor
2. Bulldozer
3. Angle dozer
4. Scraper

114. ............equipment are used to decrease the porosity of earth and to increase the density and strength of the earth.

1. Excavation
2. Compaction
3. Hauling
4. Hoisting

115. .............wall is constructed in order to support load other than its own.

1. Load supporting
2. Load distributing
3. Load bearing
4. Load releasing

116. .............type of excavator is used for digging at or below the operating level.

1. Skimmer
2. Dragline
3. Power shovel
4. Dredger

117. .............is a flexible material which is commonly used for the damp proofing.

1. Hot bitumen
2. Bituminous felts
3. Mastic asphalt
4. Metal sheets

118. .............are structural members design to carry and transfer transverse loads across space to support elements.

1. Beams
2. Columns
3. Lintels
4. Sills

119. ..............is the process in which we cover the structural members of a building to increase the strength of the building.

1. Jacketing
2. scaffoldings
3. Shoring
4. Sesmic Retrofitting

120. ..............is the practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or other manufacturing site, and transporting complete assemblies or sub-assemblies to the construction site where the structure is to be located.

1. fabrication
2. Prefabrication
3. Damping
4. Scaffolding