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
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 construction- History of architecture
- History of the civil engineering profession
- History of the science of civil engineering
- History of structural engineering
General construction concepts
Image:Prefabricated [house construction.gif|thumb|250px|A prefabricated house being assembled.]- 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 (building)
- Demolition
- Design-bid-build
- Design-build
- Engineering, procurement, and construction
- Fast-track construction
- Egyptian pyramid construction techniques
- Fire safety
- Framing
- Green building
- Green roof
- Industrialization of construction
- 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
List of construction trades- 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
- Masonry
Design elements of a building
Heavy construction projects
Heavy equipment
Building construction methods
List of construction methodsMaterials and equipment
List of building materials- :Category:Construction equipment
- * :Category:Cutting tools
- * :Category:Lifting equipment
- * :Category:Metalworking tools
- * :Category:Power tools
- * :Category:Stonemasonry tools
- * :Category:Woodworking tools
- 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
- * Roll-off dumpster
- * Portable toilet
- * Storage container