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Contents 1 New project proposal related to this article 2 North American bias 3 heavy construction 4 Heavy/Highway vs Highway/Heavy 5 Construction = word for result or only for process? 6 Cleanup 7 AHJ / NVQ / SVQ

[edit] New project proposal related to this article

There is a new project proposal that some of you here may be interested in: Wikibuilder - a knowledge base covering the design and construction of the built environment, in its entirety, in all languages. See meta:Proposals for new projects#Wikibuilder and meta:Wikibuilder for more information, and feel free to add your comments to meta:Talk:Wikibuilder —Christiaan - ☎ 09:42, 18 Jan 2005

[edit] North American bias

I am a British Architect and note the strong North American bias of this article. Be that as it may I refer to the caption of the mustachioed worker who is dealing with GORM-Wire That is a term unknown to me and, I imagine, many others. The spiral looks to me like reinforcing rod for a concrete column but it would help to have an explanation.

I note too that the crane is said to be "getting ready "etc. Cranes are inanimate but can be readied for operation by humans

Jack Hill

I also note the heavy US bias of this article, the "Authority having jurisdiction" section seems particularly irrelevant in this article Alistair Twiname

Yes, there is a definite bias to this article- but I don't think it is specifically North American. The "Authority having jurisdiction" section is applicable to much of Canada as well, but on larger construction projects it is usually the role of architects and engineers to review the work and to issue some form of certificate at completion. The "Authority having jurisdiction" (in most cases the municipal building authority) will issue an occupancy permit based on this. Also the bit about "one-stop shopping" is not the norm here or with what I've seen in the US for that matter- in fact the opposite is true. So-called "design build" firms are usually either larger construction companies (sometimes architectural firms) that engage the services of separate architects and engineers directly OR very small outfits that work primarily in small-scale residential (additions, single-family) or commercial renovations- work that most often does not require professional services. 66.183.217.31 20:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] heavy construction

I work in highway/heavy construction and this article seams to be missing much of what we do. Building roads, bridges, damns, and the like are also construction. I'm going to make some minor relevant changes now, and when I have time expand a larger section to highway/heavy.Zath42 09:47, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it seems to focus too much on business/legal side of things, ignoring the technical side. Samohyl Jan 15:40, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I added some to the Highway/heavy section, my personal experience puts close to 1/3 of these projects, if not more, being private work, generally for large corporations, mines, factories and the like. Zath42 15:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Are mines part of the construction industry? Please provide examples of large projects done in heavy/highway completed for private corporations. Thanks. Steven McCrary 02:09, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I work for a highway/heavy contractor, a substantial portion of the work we do is contracted for the mines, in the early years we did the mass grading, and site work for the haul roads and site locations of the Largest Iron Ore Mine in the U.S., and we built and do the maintenance on multiple tailings basins. We get large projects to move anything from 100,00CYLV to 3,000,000CYLV on most if the mines, this year marked the 3rd yea in a row that we worked on every iron ore mine in the state of MN. This is all privet work and it’s on the scale of 2 to 20 million dollar highway projects. The mines themselves do lots of heavy construction, and we are not the only contractor that works with the mines. They most often hold competitive bids much like a state.Clevland Clifs is one of the major owners in a many of these mines, paticularly Hibbing Taconite where I have done most of my work building large dams and building and mantaining haul roads. These haul roads are built and designed for 250ton trucks. Often the mines do this work themselves and it varies form mine to mine, I only know for sure at the iron ore mines, but the equipment they use which is the same as what many contractors use is used at large gold mines in Nevada, and coal mines out east. Also we do private work for the CN railroad as well as the rail systems used by the mines. Also we do large site work projects the mass grading for large factories, much like that found at the mines, for shopping malls, wal marts, loews, united health, olive garden, the list goes own, and this is work in MN, we have 10 to 15 main competitors in the area, as well as many from out of the area.Zath42 00:16, 24 December 2005 (UTC) This might not be true of outher countrys or other parts of the world, but we have worked in colorado, canada, michigan, wisconsin, and alaska, so I would say so in the us.Zath42 00:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

This is the company i work for Hoover Construcion Co. And our webpage has examples of many different projects.Zath42 00:44, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Zath42, thanks. So, as I understand it, your company is not doing the actual mining but assisting the mine with its operations, such as building its rail lines, access roads, building dams, and doing general "site" work. That is certainly heavy construction; thanks for the clarification. I have added the content to the main page; please check it to see if it represents that segment of the industry. Thanks again, Steven McCrary 00:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes you have it. The changes reflect the industry as i know it.Zath42 02:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Heavy/Highway vs Highway/Heavy

Well I'm on here I ponder if there is any significances in the ordering of these words, all of the literature I have looked at in the office has it highway heavy, is this a company to company thing or region to region, or insignificant?Zath42 02:11, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

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Any thoughts on the History of Construction? eg Primitive Shelters -Megaliths of Europe - Egypt, Greece, Rome etc

Rossfi

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[edit] Construction = word for result or only for process?

I come here from te german Wikipedia and wanted to link de:Bauwerk somewhere. This is the word not only for a Building (de:Gebäude), but for every kind of construction made by men. So my question is: why is this articel only related to the process, not to the result? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.43.79.87 (talk • contribs).

I don't know anything about the German language, but I believe that this article only discusses the process of construction because there are innumerable results. Construction can produce anything because it is such a general term. A user will search for the specific result of construction, most likely, if he or she wants to know about that particular result, or he or she can click on any of the links under the construction trades section to see the results for that particular type of construction. J. Finkelstein 21:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

"Bauwerk" refers to the finished building. "Baugewerbe" or "Bauen" or "Häuslebauen" would be closer. "Bauwerk" or "Gebäude" could be linked to building.--Achim 00:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I've cleaned up the external links section, as it was becoming akin to a mini web directory of anything vaguely construction-related. Link should generally go on the most specific relevant page - e.g. Carpentry tips on Carpentry etc.

Furthermore, most of this article is unstrucured, information-less lists - this sort of list is exactly what categories are for! There is no need to write out the contents of Category:Construction to fill an article. This should be converted to prose, or deleted.

Aquilina 17:31, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AHJ / NVQ / SVQ

Is "authority having jurisdiction" a term specific to the United States? Also isn't NVQ specific to England and SVQ to Scotland? Addhoc 19:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)