Construction processes explained for every level of experience.
From initial site access to the final snag, BuildPedia walks you through how construction processes actually work - the plant/equipment required, material types and methods required, installation, the tests, the sequence of site operations, and the mistakes to hunt for. No brochure talk. Site talk only.
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Core Construction Sectors
Each construction sector in BuildPedia gets the same treatment: overview, process map, then step-by-step guides with plant lists, quality checks, safety watchpoints and the defects that bite. The sectors are organised into 6 groups, plus the methods library - the disciplines that run across all of them.
Homes, offices, hospitals, schools - everything with rooms in it.
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Roads, bridges, tunnels, rail, airports and ports - the heavy civils that move everything.
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Power, water, sewers, grids and data - the networks everything else plugs into.
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Oil & gas, factories, warehouses, mines and laboratories - built to process, not to inhabit.
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Earthworks, landscaping, remediation and coastal works - shaping the ground itself.
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The disciplines that operate across every sector - foundations, frames, envelopes, services.
Browse the methods
Work on what is already there - refurbishment, alteration and the trades that only ever work on existing assets.
Explore this group of sectorsThe build journey: site access → handover
7 phases and 22 processes, in the order a residential building is actually built. Where the build forks - shallow or deep foundations, concrete, steel or masonry frame - the phase holds the routes and the design picks one. Follow it end to end, or jump straight to the process you are about to inspect, price or manage.
Site set-up
Access, clearance, and survey control
Groundworks
Dig it, and keep the water out of it
Foundations & below ground
The build picks its routeShallow, deep or both - the ground decides
Structural frame
The build picks its routeConcrete, steel, masonry or timber - the design decides
Weathertight shell
Slabs, roof, facade, insulation, glazing
Services & fit-out
MEP in, finishes on, commissioned
Completion
External works, testing, handover
How to read a process page
See it happen
Walk through the storyboard - every page opens with a picture-story of the process, step by step: rig arrives, auger drills, concrete rises.
Understand the why
Overview, when-and-why, and the types or variants you will actually meet - driven vs bored, masonry vs timber frame, warm deck vs cold. Context before detail.
Take it to site
Numbered steps with the detail a junior engineer needs, plus plant lists, the tests to witness, the safety watchpoints and the common defects to hunt.
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Start where every project starts: getting onto the site and setting it up properly.
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