WordNet
n. an industry that builds housing [syn: housing industry]
Usage examples of "construction industry".
The other day, the Latin Builders Association took out a full-page ad to whine about all the bad press that the construction industry is getting.
Indeed, temporary classrooms are to the school construction industry what paper dresses are to the clothing industry--a foretaste of the future.
This is the well-paid elite of the transient construction industry that is getting fat on Federal projects that more and more Western states are coming to view as economic necessities.
Yassacca had been, hitherto, a flourishing resort of industrious folk, with the most efficient and dependable construction industry in the Central Galaxy.
Realizing the hurricane would bring scandal to the construction industry, developers, builders and compromised inspectors were taking bold steps to obscure their own roles in the crimes.
The article surrounding the photo described him as the 'scion of a family prominent in the construction industry' and made note of his 'history of serious psychiatric problems'.
What does that do to the construction industry, the heavy durables, the furniture manufacturers?