Construction Management Quotes

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

There are a couple things that I could be doing, maybe owning a coffee shop or work in construction, building houses back in Nashville or British Columbia. I've also thought about being a property owner which would give me income and allow me to fix and maintain those properties to keep me busy.

New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

I've made my career, made money in real estate and real estate development.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

So there's no typical day, but I transition through the course of my business day by doing everything from construction meetings on the development project under construction to design meetings for an upcoming apparel delivery to acquisition meetings about projects we're looking to acquire. It's very diverse in terms of content, substance, and what I address on a typical day.

I cannot even open an umbrella properly. How could I ever have been a civil engineering student?

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I went back to college for construction and design.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.