Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking. Normally, the job is managed by a project manager, and supervised by a construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or project architect.
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... was undertaken by San Roman, an affiliate of the incumbent construction company Agroman ... who were promised a conviction redemption for risking their lives working on the monument construction.. ... official programme records, 2,643 workers participated directly in the construction, some of them highly skilled, as required by the complexity of the work ...
... Construction began on 5 August 1956, according to the plans drawn up by the architects Trần Văn Đường and Đỗ Bá Vinh, while the directing engineers were Dư Ngọc Ánh and Hồ T ...
... Main article Thessaloniki Metro The construction of the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Railway began in 2006 and is scheduled for completion in late 2014, where it is set to become the city's ... For the expansion towards the airport, the Attiko Metro company is considering the construction of an overground network or a monorail ... a southeast borough of Thessaloniki, has already become part of the initial construction phase, while future expansions are considered and planned for Efkarpia to the ...
... plan for Bournbrook and Selly Oak which includes the construction of a £350 million retail development and the construction of the Selly Oak bypass ... The hospital was designed by BDP Architects and construction, which was undertaken by Balfour Beatty, began in June 2006 ... Five Liebherr 280 EC tower cranes supplied by Balfour Beatty Civil Construction Plant Services (BBCCPS) were used during construction ...
... During construction, she was lengthened by the insertion of a 130 ft (40 m)-long ballistic missile section and renamed George Washington another submarine under ...
More definitions of "construction":
- (noun): A thing constructed; a complex construction or entity.
Example: "She wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
Synonyms: structure
- (noun): The act of constructing or building something.
Example: "During the construction we had to take a detour"
Synonyms: building
- (noun): The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings.
Example: "Their main business is home construction"
Synonyms: building
- (noun): An interpretation of a text or action.
Example: "They put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
Synonyms: twist
- (noun): A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit.
Synonyms: grammatical construction, expression
- (noun): The creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought.
Synonyms: mental synthesis
Famous quotes containing the word construction:
“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)
“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)