Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Construction"

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
The Digger and the Duckling: A Gentle Picture Book About Found Family and Environmental Care for Kids (Ages 4-8) (The Digger Series, 2)
Tempt Me (The Donovans, #2)
Red Truck, Yellow Truck
Built to Last (Park Avenue Promise, #3)
Not-a-Box City
A Girl Can Build Anything
A Sky-Blue Bench
The Little Blue Bridge (Little Ruby’s Big Ideas)
Carpenter's Helper

Erik Pevernagie
Happiness is a flow between a playful construction and a painful deconstruction, undulating from a hampering past into a liberating 'now,' escorting a meandering flood of twists and turns, caressing the velvet sand of dreamy beaches or smashing sometimes into the rocks of reality. ("New York at arm's length of desire") ...more
Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

Robert A. Heinlein
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. ...more
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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