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  2. Construction - Wikipedia

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    Construction site and equipment prepared for start of work in Cologne, Germany (2017) Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations. [1] It comes from the Latin word constructio (from com-"together" and struere "to pile up") and Old French construction. [2]

  3. 16 Divisions - Wikipedia

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    The 16 Divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat, is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada.

  4. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols - Wikipedia

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    CAD: computer-aided design, computer-aided drafting; cadmium [plating]: CAGE: Commercial and Government Entity [code]: A CAGE code is a unique identifier to label an entity (that is, a specific government agency or corporation at a specific site) that is a CDA, ODA, or MFR of the part defined by the drawing.

  5. Outline of construction - Wikipedia

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    Construction – process of building or assembling infrastructure. A complex activity, large scale construction involves extensive multitasking. A complex activity, large scale construction involves extensive multitasking.

  6. Civil engineering - Wikipedia

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    Tennessee Valley Authority civil engineers monitoring hydraulics of a scale model of Tellico Dam. Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings ...

  7. List of construction methods - Wikipedia

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    Formwork for beams takes the form of a box that is supported and propped in the correct position and level. The removal time for the formwork will vary with air temperature, humidity and consequent curing rate. Typical striking times are as follows (using air temperature of 7-16 °C): Form work. Beam sides: 9–12 hours. Beam soffits: 8–14 days.

  8. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    Their nomadic lifestyle led to temporary and short-lived buildings leading to a lack of surviving evidences of construction. However, it is believed that the earliest evidence of construction in the world is the 1.8 million year-old stone circle found at Olduvai Gorge representing the remains of a windbreak. [3]

  9. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    A – adele ring or algebraic numbers. a.a.s. – asymptotically almost surely. AC – Axiom of Choice, [1] or set of absolutely continuous functions. a.c. – absolutely continuous.