Construction & Buildings Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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deconstruction n. Instead of having her 1,300-square-foot house bulldozed, she hired Jon Alexander, a contractor who shared her environmentalism and was willing to dismantle the home shingle by beam, and build a replacement with the same two-by-fours.…Ms. Keller was able to reuse around 90 percent of the original house.…Due to rising landfill costs, tighter recycling guidelines and the growing trend toward ecologically sound building methods, this sort of home “deconstruction,” as the practice is called, is starting to catch on. [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 18, 2007)

do-si-do n. Doing a do-si-do: Swinging a large steel beam 180 degrees from the direction it’s going. [English Construction & Buildings Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 18, 2006)

dog lot n. What people around here refer to as a “dog lot,” because it has topography on it, to me is a great basement lot.…If you built here and have lived here your whole life, topography might not be something you’re interested in dealing with, but if you’re from a different area or are very creative, it presents an interesting challenge. [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

dog lot n. The North Shore sales include one real dog lot, then 4 in Chimney Oaks, far out but newer and gated. [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

facade-ectomy n. To be sure, shaving away everything but the facade of a building has been done before. In 1989, architects Moriyama & Teshima jammed a modern office building at 10 S. LaSalle St. with blue and lime green walls between the templelike base of the 1912 Otis Building by the legendary Chicago firm of Holabird & Roche. The resulting visual mismatch epitomizes the sins inflicted by this type of architectural surgery, which preservationists pejoratively refer to as a “facade-ectomy.” [English Architecture Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (Apr. 9, 2007)

faux chateau n. Whether you call them by the pejorative moniker McMansions or more whimsical names such as Faux Chateaux or Starter Castles, super-sized houses are here—soon to be followed by negative impacts, according to conservationists. [English Architecture Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jul. 2, 2005)

Fedders housing n. These kinds of developments could easily happen in certain areas of the Bronx if only city planning would wake up and rezone the area but they seem keen on making the Bronx a 6 story fedders housing paradise. [New York City English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jan. 16, 2007)

flex-space n. Flex-space, a term used to describe buildings with commercial space on the ground floor and residential space on upper floors, would be used by both developers. [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Aug. 13, 2007)

garden grabbing n. The practice known as “garden grabbing” happens where builders snap up large detached houses with big gardens, knock them down and then squeeze a small estate of new homes on to the same plot. [English United Kingdom Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2007)

gasoline siding n. The wood-frame home, which is adjacent to Vale Park on the south side of Eastern Avenue, also has what firefighters euphemistically call “gasoline siding”—a petroleum-based imitation brick that feeds the flames. [Construction & Buildings Firefighting Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 19, 2008)

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