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The document provides correct answers to multiple-choice questions categorized by topics including Construction Documentation and Estimation, Quality & Project Management, Construction Materials and Methods, Construction Drawings and Elements, and Contract and Legal Aspects. Each answer is marked with a check and covers essential concepts related to construction practices, project management, and legal documentation. It serves as a reference for understanding key terms and processes in the construction industry.

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The document provides correct answers to multiple-choice questions categorized by topics including Construction Documentation and Estimation, Quality & Project Management, Construction Materials and Methods, Construction Drawings and Elements, and Contract and Legal Aspects. Each answer is marked with a check and covers essential concepts related to construction practices, project management, and legal documentation. It serves as a reference for understanding key terms and processes in the construction industry.

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Here are the correct answers to your multiple-choice questions categorized by topic for clarity:

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Construction Documentation and Estimation

1. Shows items for construction with specs, quantity, and unit price:
✅ Bill of Quantity

2. Term/process for taking measurements and estimating civil works:


✅ Quantity Survey

3. Main purpose of costing or estimating:


✅ Identifying engineering estimate of the work for bidding purpose
(Also accepted: "Work out economical use of materials, labor and equipment’s")

4. Data required for masonry work cost estimation:


✅ Specification and rate of materials

5. True about work item measurements for BoQ:


✅ Deep excavation conducted for the stone foundation work is measured in m³

6. Measurement for steel bar in retaining walls:


✅ Measured in meter length from structural drawing

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Quality & Project Management

7. Good project managers ensure quality control by:


✅ Maintaining the desired quality

8. Quality supervision cycle:


✅ Plan - Do - Check - Act
9. Management's response to unusable ideas:
✅ Being supportive while explaining how the idea is not right

10. Project time reduction results in:


✅ Increasing the direct cost and decreasing the indirect cost

11. Performing two or more activities independently:


✅ Resource Task Management Skill

12. Work schedule and resource assignment prepared by:


✅ Contractor

13. Project monitoring is required:


✅ At any stage of the project deemed necessary

14. Project manager needs communication to:


✅ Provide information and instructions

15. Quality control is:


✅ Monitoring specific project results to ensure compliance and improve quality

16. A team leader must:


✅ Define the problem properly

17. Organizing means:


✅ Establishing structural relationships to perform work effectively

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Construction Materials and Methods

18. Reinforcement cover based on in ES EN2 2013:


✅ Exposure condition
19. Protective clothing for dust, grease, etc.:
✅ Overalls

20. Test for internal cracks and voids:


✅ Non-destructive test

21. Maintenance method for brickwork:


✅ Re-pointing of old brickwork

22. Leadership evidenced by:


✅ Supervisors understand the jobs of their subordinates

23. Post-demolition actions:


✅ Cleaning, storage and environmentally friendly waste management

24. Reason for brick's continued use:


✅ Retains its good appearance over a long period

25. Choice of masonry units depends on:


✅ Local availability, compressive strength, cost and durability

26. To retain excavated soil:


✅ Timbering

27. Structural clay units shaped, dried, and burned:


✅ Bricks

28. Mechanical characteristic of bricks:


✅ Flexure strength

29. Light and strong bricks needed because:


✅ Dense and heavy bricks conduct heat and sound at greater rate

30. Advantage of hollow bricks:


✅ Offer better insulation against heat and sound
31. Protect sides of trenches from collapsing:
✅ Providing timber or other boards

32. Give rough stone surface aesthetic appearance:


✅ Dressing

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Construction Drawings and Elements

33. Drawing with cut lines for material details:


✅ Sectional drawing

34. Membrane to prevent ground moisture:


✅ Damp proofing course

35. Underside of eaves (roof component):


✅ Soffit

36. System of casting concrete in moulds off-site:


✅ Pre-cast structures

37. Temporary framework in construction:


✅ Scaffolding

38. Cavity walls act as:


✅ Insulating material

39. Line set by authorities for construction limit:


✅ Building Line

40. Water leaking from walls/floors is:


✅ Dampness
41. Best side for fresh air windows:
✅ Northern

42. Tool to cut soft bricks:


✅ Scutch

43. Wall width to thickness ratio:


✅6

44. Cement + sand + pebbles + water mixture:


✅ Cement Concrete

45. If vibrator fails during concreting:


✅ Add some amount of water and compact by hands

46. Temporary concrete support:


✅ Form work

47. Cement paste means:


✅ Chemical reaction when cement contacts water

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Contract and Legal Aspects

48. Document defining legal rights and obligations:


✅ General Conditions of Contract

49. Stirrups spacing for economy:


✅ May be increased at mid-span

50. Economical reinforcement at mid-span:


✅ The number of stirrups will be decreased compared to support section
51. Purpose of Supplementary Conditions:
✅ Extend General Provisions to fit specific project

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