Sheets in the construction industry
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[edit] Definitions of sheet
In the construction industry, the word ‘sheet’ has two primary meanings:
- A large, sometimes rectangular piece of material that is relatively thin in one dimension compared to the other two.
- A single-page paper or digital document that can be used to record or communicate information.
[edit] Examples of sheets include
Sheet material:
- Cladding.
- Colour coated steel sheet
- Drawn flat sheet
- Fibre cement profiled sheet cladding
- Ice sheet
- Membrane.
- Reinforced concrete sheet piles
- Sheet glass
- Sheet metal fabrication
- Sheet piling
- Steel sheet piles
- Timber sheet piles
Sheet document:
- Area type work sheet
- Balance Sheet
- Oral confirmation sheet
- Product Data Sheet
- Query sheet
- Workup sheet
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