road building
Paving new routes
Road building is the construction and maintenance of roads—clearing land, grading surfaces, laying pavement or gravel.
The term covers everything from rural dirt tracks to multilane highways.
As an adjective, it modifies related nouns: road building equipment, road building projects, road building crews.
Governments and contractors do most road building, though the phrase sometimes appears figuratively for any groundwork that enables progress.
- gradingAssigning marks to work
- pavingLaying hard ground cover
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- civil engineeringPublic structure construction field
- culvertsTunnels for water flow
erosion prevention · sustainable materials · wildlife corridors · surveying · compaction · highways · earthmoving · steam roller · aggregate · traffic analysis · traffic cone · lane closure · feasibility studies · concrete · noise barriers · right-of-way · pavement markings · intersections
- infrastructure projectsbridge construction, bridge repair, tunnel boring, railway construction, broadband expansion
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- construction projectshome renovation, kitchen remodel, bathroom remodel, basement finishing, attic conversion
- group workbarn raising, work party, workday, collective farming, union labor
- Inca cultureMachu Picchu, Cusco, quipu, sun worship, terrace farming
- ancient engineeringarches, aqueducts, bridges, masonry, foundations
road buildingland conservation
Protecting terrain from exploitation
rewilding · environmental protection · wilderness preservation · land preservation · wilderness conservation
road buildingroad maintenance
Caring for paved surfaces
resurfacing · pothole filling · infrastructure maintenance · pothole repair