It is a word originating in Latin with lexical components such as the prefix "with" which means completely or globally; and "struere" which means to join or gather together, plus the suffix "cion" which is action and effect. Therefore, the word construction refers to the action and effect of building or the art of building. That is, it refers to various structures created by man, mostly large, such as a building, a house among others, using various materials or elements such as the foundations, the structure, the exterior walls, the interior separations etc., which help to facilitate said creation.
It also refers to the set of people and materials that are related to the manufacture of buildings, architectural or engineering works. This word is given to the branch of architecture and civil engineering, and are the projects of construction and execution of infrastructure with different processes, including budgeting, planning of objectives in time, security, human resources, logistics, etc.. Next we have cultural construction is the selective and graphic representation of the moral behavior and characteristics of a specific society.
This term or word is used in different fields or subjects from the scientific field to those linked to the humanities. In grammar, construction is called the ordering and syntactic placement that words have in a phrase or sentence and allow expressing a conception. It is also called construction to a children's toy that is made up of pieces of wood or any other material and they are coordinated to build bridges, buildings among others.