This document discusses various materials and equipment used for construction projects, including air barrier paper, attic ventilation materials, backhoes, batter boards, brick arches, brick bonds, and brick sizes. Air barrier paper is used as a vapor retarder and air barrier. Attic ventilation materials include soffit vents, ridge vents, and gable vents to allow heat and vapor to escape. Backhoes are excavating equipment used for digging, demolition, transportation, and more. Batter boards are temporary frames used to outline building dimensions. Brick arches provide structural support and decoration above openings. Brick bonds refer to patterns for laying bricks and tying multiple layers together. Standard brick sizes vary in width from 3 to

1. Barbara Holler Visual Dictionary Spring 2009 Methods, Materials & Equipment I Final Project BSCI 2300 Air Barrier Paper – Brick Sizes

2. Air Barrier Paper Sheet of material/paper used as vapor retarder and air barrier allows vapor to pass through but not air. Vapor Retarder /Air Barrier. (Black Tar Paper)

4. Back Hoe Excavating equipment with a digging bucket on one end and a two-part movable arm. Typically attached to a tractor or front end loader. Backhoes are used for many things ie. construction, small demolitions, light transportation of building materials, powering building equipment, digging holes/excavating, landscaping, breaking asphalt, and paving roads). The backhoe bucket can also be replaced with powered attachments such as a breaker, grapple, auger, or a stump grinder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhoe_loader 30” bucket 40” bucket

5. Batter Boards Temporary frame built to outline the dimensions of a building, foundation or on the ‘first level’ just outside the corners of an excavation for basements. Used to show position, shape and sized of the building on the site. ME if I could have found any

6. Brick Arches Structural form as well as decorative detail above an opening made of bricks. Centering – is a temporary wood frame to help the mason to form the arch. Arch with a keystone Roman Arch Parabolic Arch Jack Arch Segmental Arch ___l ME REALLY

7. Brick Bonds Adhesive force between mortar and brick masonry unit, or the pattern in which units are laid to tie two or more wythes together into a structural unit. Rowlocks Stretchers Rowlocks Soldier

8. Brick Bonds Decorative CMU Stack Bond No overlapping has straight horizontal & vertical lines Running Bond All stretchers My BIG Head