Construction Industry

THEME: Construction Industry  

“The job of the architect today is to create beautiful buildings. That's all.” 

                                                                                                             Philip Johnson

Read, write and learn the following words and word combinations:

construction industry будівельна промисловість

construction work  будівельні роботи

maintenance догляд, ремонт

permanent постійний, довгочасний

highway шосе, автострада

water-supply system система водопостачання

heating system система опалення

civil engineering цивільне будівництво

to deal with мати справу з

structure споруда

residential building житлова будівля

public building громадська будівля

rural building сільська будівля

hydrotechnical building гідротехнічна будівля

to last тривати

to carry out здійснювати

assembly-line principle принцип монтажу (конвеєр)

qualified workers кваліфіковані робітники

Read and translate the text.

Construction industry is an important branch of the economy that involves the construction of new and the maintenance of existing buildings and permanent structures such as highways, bridges, canals, and water-supply systems. Civil engineering deals with the technical aspects of designing and constructing various kinds of buildings and structures. Architecture is closely related to construction and occupies a position halfway between civil engineering and art.

Structures can be classified according to the materials used into wooden, stone, concrete, reinforced-concrete, steel, block structures, and so on. According to use, permanent structures can be divided into residential and public buildings (including houses, apartment buildings, government buildings, school buildings, community buildings), rural buildings (houses, barns, community buildings in villages), industrial buildings (factories, plants, electric stations), hydro technical structures (hydroelectric stations, dams, locks, canals, reservoirs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, fish ponds), and transport structures (railroads, highways, airports, pipelines, bridges, tunnels).

Today industrial methods are used extensively in construction operations: the work is organized according to the assembly-line principle and is highly mechanized. The production cycle in the construction industry lasts from a few months to a few years. Work is carried out by construction and assembly organizations that have at their command qualified workers and the support of design and research institutions.

Read the following statements and decide if they are true or false.

1. Construction industry involves the construction of new buildings.

2. Civil engineering deals with the technical aspects of designing and constructing various kinds of buildings and structures.

3. Architecture has nothing in common with civil engineering.

4. Structures can be classified according to the materials and to use.

5. Today the construction industry uses extensive industrial methods.

Answer the following questions.

1. What branch of industry does the text deal with?

2. Does the text consider what civil engineering deals with?

3. Is the classification of structures presented?

4. Are modern industrial methods mentioned?

5. What does the construction industry involve?

6. Does architecture occupy the position halfway between civil engineering and art?

7. Is architecture closely related to construction?

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