Outline of construction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to construction:
Construction - process of building or assembling infrastructure. A complex activity, large scale construction involves extensive multitasking. Normally, a job is managed by a project manager, and supervised by a construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or project architect.
Essence of construction
- Building
- Planning permission
- Nonbuilding structures including infrastructure
Types of construction
- Building construction
- * Home construction
- * High-rise construction
- **Skyscraper
- * Low-rise construction
- * Industrial construction
- ** Factories
- ** Refineries
- * Offshore construction
- * Road construction
- * Underground construction
- **Tunnel construction
History of construction
- History of architecture
- History of the civil engineering profession
- History of the science of civil engineering
- History of structural engineering
- Vernacular architecture
General construction concepts
- Architecture
- Architectural engineering
- Autonomous building
- Blueprint
- Builders' rites
- *Topping out
- Building automation
- Building code
- Building construction
- Building envelope
- Building insulation
- Building material
- Civil engineering
- Cladding
- Construction and demolition waste
- Construction bidding
- Construction contract
- Construction delay
- Construction engineering
- Construction equipment theft
- Construction loan
- Construction law
- Construction management
- Construction site safety
- Construction worker
- Deconstruction
- Demolition
- Design-bid-build
- Design-build
- Engineering, procurement, and construction
- Fast-track construction
- Egyptian pyramid construction techniques
- Fire safety
- Framing
- Green building
- Green roof
- Occupancy
- Occupational safety
- Prefabricated buildings
- Project management
- Real estate
- Steel frame
- Sustainability in construction
- Zoning
Components of a building
- Escalator
- Electrical wiring
- Elevator
- Fireplace
- * Chimney
- Floor
- * Flooring
- Foundation
- Light fixtures
- Plumbing
- * Plumbing fixtures
- Roof
- Stairs
- Walls
- * Doors
- * Wallcoverings
- * Windows
- HVAC
Construction trades workers
- Banksman
- Bricklayer
- Concrete finisher
- Construction foreman
- Electrician
- Framer
- Glazier
- House painter and decorator
- Ironworker
- Joiner
- Laborer
- Millwright
- Plasterer
- Plumber
- Rigger
- Roofer
- Slater
- Steel fixer
- Welder
Design elements of a building
- Halls
- * Entryway
- Rooms
- * Bathroom
- * Bedroom
- * Dining room
- * Garage
- * Kitchen
- * Living room
- * Utility room
Heavy construction projects
- Bridge
- Highway
Heavy equipment
- Heavy equipment
- * Bulldozer
- * Compactor
- * Excavator
- * Loader
- Heavy equipment operator
Building construction methods
- Earthbag construction
- Ferrocement
- Lift slab construction
- Monocrete construction
- Slip forming
Materials and equipment
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- Light tower
- Living building material
- Staff
- Temporary equipment
- * Box crib
- * Dropcloth
- * Falsework
- * Fill trestle
- * Formwork
- * Masking tape
- * Ram board
- * Scaffolding
- **Tube and clamp scaffold
- * Temporary fencing
Roles in construction
- Building engineer
- Building estimator
- Building officials
- Chartered Building Surveyor
- Chief Construction Adviser to UK Government
- Civil estimator
- Clerk of works
- Construction foreman
- Master builder
- Quantity surveyor
- Site manager
- Structural engineer
- Superintendent