{"id":70,"date":"2016-12-28T06:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T06:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raratheme.com\/preview\/construction-landing-page\/?p=70"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:28:19","slug":"construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/12\/28\/construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Construction<\/b>\u00a0is a general term meaning the art and science to form objects, systems, or organizations,<sup id=\"cite_ref-OED_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0and comes from Latin\u00a0<i>constructio<\/i>\u00a0(from\u00a0<i>com-<\/i>\u00a0&#8220;together&#8221; and\u00a0<i>struere<\/i>\u00a0&#8220;to pile up&#8221;) and Old French\u00a0<i>construction<\/i>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0To construct is the verb: the act of building, and the noun is construction: how something is built, the nature of its structure.<\/p>\n<p>In its most widely used context, construction covers the processes involved in delivering\u00a0<a title=\"Building\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Building\">buildings<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Infrastructure\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infrastructure\">infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0and industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with\u00a0<a title=\"Planning\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planning\">planning<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Financing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Financing\">financing<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Design\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Design\">design<\/a>, and continues until the asset is built and ready for use; construction also covers repairs and maintenance work, any works to expand, extend and improve the asset, and its eventual\u00a0<a title=\"Demolition\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demolition\">demolition<\/a>, dismantling or\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:decommission\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/decommission\">decommissioning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Industrial sector\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrial_sector\">industry<\/a>\u00a0sector, construction accounts for more than 10% of global\u00a0<a title=\"Gross domestic product\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gross_domestic_product\">GDP<\/a>\u00a0(6-9% in\u00a0<a title=\"Developed country\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Developed_country\">developed countries<\/a>) and employs around 7% of the global workforce &#8211; over 273m people. The output of the global construction industry was worth an estimated $10.8 trillion in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building construction is usually further divided into residential and non-residential infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeksbros.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}