Post #291138

I was employed in the #construction business for about five years. And I was amazed to see how relatively little the art and science of that field is, or has been, put into writing. More than any other type of place I worked at (in alphabetical order: chemicals, consulting, education, government, law, pharmaceuticals, real estate, recreation, resource conservation, retail, and theatre), I would say construction is the hardest to learn if one isn't already doing it, in some way. Whether it's books, articles, Wikipedia, or whatever—I rarely got useful info for that line of work by #reading. Which I thought was an interesting and slightly annoying handicap, since I'm a well-practiced reader. At least I found the related fields of civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and architecture to be replete with written knowledge. Meanwhile, another related field, facilities management, seemed as relatively far as construction from library resources. 📚 🖥️