the.com/construction
The art of turning noise, dust, and budget overruns into a building.
means The process of building something — assembling materials, labor, and plans into a structure that (eventually) stands.
from From Latin construere, 'to pile up together' — com- ('together') plus struere ('to heap, build, arrange'). Struere is the same root behind 'structure' and 'instruct' (literally, to 'build into' someone). The word entered English via Old French in the sense of putting parts together into a whole, and only later picked up its narrower sense of erecting buildings — the dust and overruns came free of charge.
- oldest trade
- Humans built stone structures over 10,000 years ago
- tallest claim
- Burj Khalifa took six years and 12,000 workers daily
- word twist
- Grammar construction and building construction share the same Latin root
- biggest risk
- Delays and cost overruns are the industry's most consistent features