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)
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Construction Site: Road Crew Coming Through! (Goodnight Construction Site)
Construction Site: Farming Strong, All Year Long (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site)
Until May (Until Her/Him, #11)
Built to Last
Built to Last (Park Avenue Promise, #3)
Not-a-Box City
Sal Boat: (A Boat by Sal)
A Sky-Blue Bench
The Little Blue Bridge (Little Ruby’s Big Ideas)
Someone Builds the Dream
On the Other Side of the Forest
The Little Library
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
Dig, Dogs, Dig: A Construction Tail
Machines at Work
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Little Excavator
The Construction Crew: A Picture Book
His Fresh Start Cowboy by A.M. ArthurRavaged by the Rancher by Jesse StrykerAsk Me for Fire by Halli StarlingUnderstanding the Building Construction Process by Leon P. Gander
M/M Blue Collar Books 2022
4 books — 4 voters
Miss Fix-It by Emma HartThe Obsession by Nora RobertsBounty by Kristen AshleyTribute by Nora RobertsThe Next Always by Nora Roberts
Renovation Romance
117 books — 29 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
67 books — 165 voters
Young at Midnight by Jennifer Ann ShoreThe Wall by Mary Roberts RinehartWalkers by Graham MastertonThe Man Who Left Well Enough by Mark McShaneDinky Hocker Shoots Smack! by M.E. Kerr
Brick Wall
86 books — 8 voters

Strays by Garrett LeighWho We Are by Nicola HakenArrows Through Archer by Nash SummersBetween These Sheets by Devon McCormackSpun! by J.L. Merrow
M/M Blue Collar Books 2017
20 books — 7 voters
Unseen Academicals by Terry PratchettPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternThe Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson
Big Labyrinthine Buildings
17 books — 7 voters


Charles F. Lummis
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
Charles Fletcher Lummis

Karl Wiggins
A good bricklayer can lay his last brick of the day, point up, wash up, turn his back on his day’s work, and every single one of the joints between the bricks will be exactly 15mm. Why? Because he’s done it so many times, that’s why. It’s repetitive. It’s probably the same for a good hairdresser, a mechanic, a musician, a prostitute and I’m sure Masai Warriors hunting lions in the heart of the Masai Mara.
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

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