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| Bankrupt
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Financial insolvency. |
| Bankruptcy
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A legal procedure by which an insolvent debtor can be relieved of repayment of certain obligations. Bankruptcies remain on a credit rating for 7 to 10 years. This may become a problem in obtaining financing. |
| Bar
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Masonry term for rebar, which is a metal rod with a raised surface, and come in various lengths and diameters. When used with concrete blocks, they are installed vertically in the cores of the block, which are then filled with concrete. This enables concrete block construction, which is cheaper, to be as strong as pure concrete. |
| Bar bending table
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Work table that is designed with holders to facilitate the bending of rebar. |
| Bar chair
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Metal device, used to keep the rebar elevated in the center instead of resting at the bottom of the pour. May often be bent from rebar itself. |
| Bar chart
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Graph that may be used to help a contractor compute how much time and labor will be needed for particular jobs by using horizontal or vertical bars to show the duration of each activity by the length of its bar. |
| Bar clamp
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Designed for spanning wide work, it has a metal pipe with screw clamps and an adjustable stop mounted on the pipe. The clamping mechanism is positioned long the length of the bar to fit the appropriate size of the work with the length of the bar. Fine adjustments and clamping pressures are made by the screw threads on the clamp. |
| Bar doors
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Swinging doors, less than the full height of the doorway, possibly louvered. |
| Bar graph
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Graph, which uses bars to show the rate of change instead of another quantity, such as time, by the length of bars representing quantity or value. Useful to visualize how closely actual activity matches original goals. |
| Bar hanger
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Designed to support an electrical box, it spans between joists and suspend the box between structural members. |
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