CSM 1000 FINAL REVIEW CLEMSON UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Four sectors of the Construction Industry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Residential, Commercial, Heavy Civil,
Industrial
Residential - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Single + multi-family dwellings
-Custom Builder, small volume builder, production builder
-Low tech, easy to enter this market
-Wood light frame construction with exterior finishes and drywall interiors
-Pitched roofs most common
Commercial - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Addresses needs of commerce, trade, & government
•Funded by private or public
•Large scope of project types
•Technically advanced and requires diversity of workers with extensive equipment
•Builders need deep understanding of processes & techniques
•Reinforced structures
•Steel, concrete, and glass
•Flat roofs with asphalt/gravel ballasts
Heavy Civil - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅•Infrastructure and transportation needs
•Industry hard to enter b/c complex knowledge required to compete
•Complex, high dollar endeavors
•Requires specific engineering knowledge
•Asphalt, gravel, concrete, steel, and soils
•Huge investment into equipment
•Publicly funded, long lasting projects
Includes Environmental
, Industrial - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅•High specialized with vast resources and deep construction and
engineering expertise
•Plants, Facilities, Refineries, Pipelines, steelmills, chemical processing plants
•Very basic exteriors and skeleton interiors
•Built for intended purpose
•Installation of equipment is the main focus
•Engineers!!
•5-10 years
•Materials are the same as commercial projects
•Private funding and very large contracts
Environmental - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅•Rising market
•Improves environment and public health
•Waste management, water treatment, Sewers
•Commercial building materials
•Need for specialized building materials
o Pumps o Valves o Filters o Aerators
•Government regulation agencies!!!!!
•Collaboration with scientists
•Typically publicly funded
Three Primary Objectives of Construction Management - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Time
-Cost
- Quality
Design-Bid-Build - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Traditional method
•Owner hires designer (qualification based) and then once plans are done, Owner selects a General
Contractor (low bid)
ANSWERS
Four sectors of the Construction Industry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Residential, Commercial, Heavy Civil,
Industrial
Residential - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Single + multi-family dwellings
-Custom Builder, small volume builder, production builder
-Low tech, easy to enter this market
-Wood light frame construction with exterior finishes and drywall interiors
-Pitched roofs most common
Commercial - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Addresses needs of commerce, trade, & government
•Funded by private or public
•Large scope of project types
•Technically advanced and requires diversity of workers with extensive equipment
•Builders need deep understanding of processes & techniques
•Reinforced structures
•Steel, concrete, and glass
•Flat roofs with asphalt/gravel ballasts
Heavy Civil - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅•Infrastructure and transportation needs
•Industry hard to enter b/c complex knowledge required to compete
•Complex, high dollar endeavors
•Requires specific engineering knowledge
•Asphalt, gravel, concrete, steel, and soils
•Huge investment into equipment
•Publicly funded, long lasting projects
Includes Environmental
, Industrial - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅•High specialized with vast resources and deep construction and
engineering expertise
•Plants, Facilities, Refineries, Pipelines, steelmills, chemical processing plants
•Very basic exteriors and skeleton interiors
•Built for intended purpose
•Installation of equipment is the main focus
•Engineers!!
•5-10 years
•Materials are the same as commercial projects
•Private funding and very large contracts
Environmental - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅•Rising market
•Improves environment and public health
•Waste management, water treatment, Sewers
•Commercial building materials
•Need for specialized building materials
o Pumps o Valves o Filters o Aerators
•Government regulation agencies!!!!!
•Collaboration with scientists
•Typically publicly funded
Three Primary Objectives of Construction Management - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Time
-Cost
- Quality
Design-Bid-Build - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Traditional method
•Owner hires designer (qualification based) and then once plans are done, Owner selects a General
Contractor (low bid)
