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: A Picture Book for Children (Ages 4-8) about Imagination, Building, and Friendship
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
Tip Tip Dig Dig
Demolition (Construction Crew)
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
Little Excavator
Machines at Work
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Go! Go! Go! Stop!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithMy Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik BackmanThe Flatshare by Beth O'LearyThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel BarberyCoraline by Neil Gaiman
Apartment Building Fiction
192 books — 44 voters
The Wall by Mary Roberts RinehartYoung at Midnight by Jennifer Ann ShoreA Dance in the Street by Charles Shea LemoneRibbin', jivin', and playin' the dozens by Herbert L. FosterThe Myth of the Walled-up Nun by Herbert Thurston
Brick Wall
88 books — 9 voters

Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeUnseen Academicals by Terry PratchettHarry 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
18 books — 9 voters
Historic American Covered Bridges by Brian J. McKeeThe Bridge by Peter J. TomasiThe Great Bridge by David McCulloughThe New River Gorge Bridge by Cristina OpdahlKnox County Bridges by Donald Edgar Boyd
Histories of Bridges (nonfiction)
32 books — 6 voters


Lee Battersby
The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.
Lee Battersby, The Corpse-Rat King

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

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