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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Chapel Bend (Huckleberry Bay, #3)
Until May (Until Her/Him, #11)
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Construction Site: Road Crew Coming Through! (Goodnight Construction Site)
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Construction Site: Farming Strong, All Year Long (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site)
Someone Builds the Dream
Built to Last
The Little Library
So You Want To Build a Library
Sal Boat: (A Boat by Sal)
Hard Hat Hank and the Sky-High Solution
Colossal Cranes
Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes
On the Other Side of the Forest
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 Children (Ages 4-8) (The Digger Series, 1)
Mighty, Mighty Construction Site
Building Our House
Roadwork
Bulldozer's Big Day (The Bulldozer Books)
Someone Builds the Dream
Little Excavator
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Dig, Dogs, Dig: A Construction Tail
Machines at Work
Go! Go! Go! Stop!
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Our house in the middle of our street
346 books — 77 voters

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M/M Blue Collar Books 2013
16 books — 3 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



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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