building trades
Skilled construction work
The building trades are the skilled occupations involved in constructing and maintaining structures—carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, masonry, roofing, and similar crafts.
The term often appears in discussions of vocational training, union labor, and apprenticeships: He's worked in the building trades his whole life.
Also called the construction trades.
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- carpentryWood construction trade
- skilled laborTrained professional work
- electrical wiringConductors distributing building power
- HVAC systemHeating, ventilation, air conditioning
roofing · masonry · concrete pouring · painting · surveying · plumbing · cabinetry · safety inspection · punch list · excavation · union · journeyman · tradesman · scaffolding · stonecutting · glazing · plastering · apprenticeship
- labor relationslabor relations, labor disputes, collective agreement, union elections, bargaining
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, labor union, union shops
- vocational trainingapprenticeship, apprenticeships, trade school, trade schools, vocational school
building tradesdesk work
Sedentary office labor
office work · desk jobs · clerical work · intellectual labor · professional services
building tradesdemolition
Deliberate structural destruction
wrecking · razing · deconstruction · tearing down · dismantling