Construction Industry

Overview

Construction industry accounts for around one-tenth of the world’s gross domestic product, seven percent of employment, half of all resource usage and up to 40 percent of energy consumption. This industry has a real impact on our daily lives: the buildings we live and work in, the roads and bridges we drive on, the utility distributions systems we use, the railways, airports and harbors we travel and trade from are all products of this billion dollar industry.

The construction industry consists of infrastructure, repair and maintenance;public and private housing;non-residential public property (e.g. hospitals and schools) and industrial (e.g. factories and processing plant) & commercial construction. Prosperity of the industry depends upon the capacity to evolve on business, technological and environmental fronts.

This vast and diverse sector provides construction industry jobs in both well-known fields and niche areas of construction. Different areas for construction industry jobs includes architecture, civil and structural engineering, construction and building services, engineering construction and surveying.