Construction

Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations, and comes from Latin constructio (from com- "together" and struere "to pile up") via the Old French construction. To construct is the verb: the act of building, and the noun is construction: how something is built, the nature of its structure.

In its most widely used context, construction covers the processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and desi
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Forgotten Dreams (Dream #5)
Chapel Bend (Huckleberry Bay, #3)
Until May (Until Her/Him, #11)
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Built to Last
Someone Builds the Dream
Construction Site: Farming Strong, All Year Long (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site)
The Digger and the Duckling: A Gentle Picture Book About Found Family and Environmental Care for Kids (Ages 4-8)
So You Want To Build a Library
On the Other Side of the Forest
Construction Site: Road Crew Coming Through! (Goodnight Construction Site)
Not-a-Box City
Built to Last (Park Avenue Promise, #3)
Sal Boat: (A Boat by Sal)
Hard Hat Hank and the Sky-High Solution
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
Construction
Demolition (Construction Crew)
Tip Tip Dig Dig
The Digger and the Flower: An Inspiring Picture Book About Rebirth and Change in the City for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Mighty, Mighty Construction Site
Roadwork
Building Our House
Bulldozer's Big Day (The Bulldozer Books)
Someone Builds the Dream
Little Excavator
Machines at Work
Dig, Dogs, Dig: A Construction Tail
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Go! Go! Go! Stop!
Taxes and Tardis by N.R. WalkerAny Closer by Mary CalmesLove Ahead by Madeleine UrbanDisasterology 101 by Taylor V. DonovanHandyman by Claire Thompson
Best Gay Construction Workers
127 books — 53 voters
Drive Me Wild by Melanie HarlowBeard in Mind by Penny ReidWait for It by Mariana ZapataDirty Rowdy Thing by Christina LaurenTruth or Beard by Penny Reid
Fix: Handymen in Romance
132 books — 26 voters

The Archisutra by Miguel Bolivar101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew FrederickThe World by Design by A. Eugene KohnSolar Energy On A Shoestring Budget by Jay HamiltonA Pattern Language by Christopher W. Alexander
Essential Architecture Reading
18 books — 7 voters
Joy & Sorrow by Peter Sean DalyThe House at Pooh Corner by A.A. MilneSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Cider House Rules by John Irving
Our house in the middle of our street
359 books — 81 voters

Dungeon Born by Dakota KroutAncient Ruins by Benjamin MedranoThe Slime Dungeon by Jeffrey "Falcon" LogueWe Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. TaylorDungeon Spawned by D.R. Rosier
Protagonist is a Dungeon
68 books — 167 voters
The Saturdays by Elizabeth EnrightThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonBrown Girl, Brownstones by Paule MarshallRed at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonSize 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
NYC Brownstones
84 books — 17 voters


Momentum builds success.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran, The Palace

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