Building Construction MCQs Quiz Multiple Choice Questions & Answers Page 3

101. At 28 days of curing concrete attains a strength of

1. 65 to 80%
2. 90 to 95%
3. 20 to 25%
4. 60 to 70%

102. As per IS :1172-1963, water required per head per day for average domestic purposes is

1. 135 litres
2. 80litres
3. 20litres
4. 50 litres

103. According to the Indian Standard recommendations, a water requirement of how many litres per head per day is assumed for residential buildings.

1. 135 litres
2. 160 litres
3. 50 litres
4. 115 litres

104. A............roller is a multi purpose roller which is used for various purposes and for practically all type of roads.

1. Rubber tyred
2. Dead weight
3. Smooth wheeled
4. Pneumatic

105. A.............usually parallel to the plot boundaries and laid down in each case by the Authority, beyond which nothing can be constructed towards the site boundaries.

1. Property line
2. Plot line
3. Building line
4. Control line

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. Excavator
2. Bulldozer
3. Scraper
4. Grader

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

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

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

109. A city supply includes

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

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

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

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

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

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. Excavator
2. Bulldozer
3. Scraper
4. Grader

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Damping
2. Scaffolding
3. fabrication
4. Prefabrication

121. ..............is a wooden material made artifically from solid wastes like sawdust, flyash and other biodegradable wastes etc.

1. Acoustic Material
2. None of the above
3. Artifical Timber
4. Wall Cladding

122. ..............is a process of connecting cables & wires to the related devices such as fuse switches, lights, fans etc to the main distribution board for continuous power supply.

1. Both a and b are correct
2. Both a and b are not correct
3. Electric wiring
4. Water supply

123. ..............are the most commonly used equipment for transportation.

1. Trucks
2. Bulldozers
3. Dump trucks
4. Rollers

124. ...............consist of a vibrating unit mounted on a screed, plate or roller.

1. Vibrating rollers
2. Vibratory compactors
3. Earth rammers
4. Pounding

125. ................consists of driving either a hollow tube or a steel rod or an iron rod into the ground.

1. Probing
2. Digging
3. Trail pits
4. Test piles

126. .................is the unit of measurement of intensity of light?

1. 1 lux – 10luman/m2
2. 2 lux – 6luman/m2
3. 1 lux – 5luman/m2
4. 1 lux – 1luman/m2

127. .................is the part of building constructed above the plinth level.

1. Foundation
2. Plinth
3. Superstructure
4. Substructure