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The Work of Building: A Building Science & Construction Management Novel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 25 2026
Pages: 574
Weight: 2.17
Height: 1.16 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
A building may look inevitable in a rendering. On a construction site, nothing is inevitable.
Emma Collins joins the team building a new university learning center with a foundation in residential construction and a great deal still to learn. As the project moves from early planning to foundations, steel and mass timber, building systems, and final turnover, she discovers how much depends on decisions made before anyone has a complete picture.
Drawings conflict with field conditions. Materials and trades must arrive in the right sequence. Weather, tolerances, budgets, safety, and building performance shape choices that cannot always wait. Emma must learn when to trust her judgment, when to ask better questions, and how to work with the people whose knowledge makes the building possible.
The Work of Building is a construction management novel about the people and decisions behind a finished building. Grounded in building science and the realities of a complex project, it follows one team from the first questions of preconstruction to the day the doors open.
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