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!

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

Chuck Palahniuk
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. ...more
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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