Glossary
Construction glossary
The terms you will hear on a commercial project, explained simply, with what each one means for your budget and schedule.
- Access Control
- Alberta Building Code
- Allowance
- As-Built Drawings
- Audio-Visual Systems
- Base Building
- Builders Risk Insurance
- Building Permit
- Change Order
- Commissioning
- Constructability Review
- Construction Lien
- Construction Management
- Contingency
- Cost-Plus
- Critical Path
- Demising Wall
- Design-Build
- Designated Substances Survey
- Development Permit
- Drywall Finish Levels
- Electrical Load Calculation
- Emergency Lighting
- Fire Separation
- Firestopping
- General Contractor
- Guaranteed Maximum Price
- Hazard Assessment
- Holdback
- HVAC
- Long-Lead Items
- Make-Good
- MasterFormat
- Millwork
- Occupancy Permit
- Panelboard
- Plenum
- Punch List
- Rentable Area
- Request for Proposal
- RFI
- Rooftop Unit
- Scope of Work
- Self-Perform
- Shop Drawings
- Sound Masking
- Sprinkler System
- Stipulated Sum
- Structured Cabling
- Submittals
- Substantial Completion
- Suspended Ceiling
- Tenant Allowance
- Tenant Improvement
- Tender
- Testing and Balancing
- Three-Phase Power
- Transformer
- Value Engineering
- VAV Box