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• Inspection and Other Strategies for Assuring Quality in Government Construction (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

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• Building for Tomorrow: Global Enterprise and the U.S. Construction Industry (1988), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Builders' History (London: Pub. for the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives by the Labour Publishing Company Ltd., ca. 1923), by Raymond Postgate
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts (originally published 1986; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Mark Erlich, contrib. by David Goldberg and Miriam Frank (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• The Carpenter (partial serial archives)

• The Electrical Worker, by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (partial serial archives)

• Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters Journal (partial serial archives)

• Building Towers, Cheating Workers: Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Dubai (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Hadi Ghaemi (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Adam Bede, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Adam Bede (New York: J. B. Alden, 1884), by George Eliot (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annals of the Worshipful Company of Joiners of the City of London: Extracted From Original Documents, Minute Books, and Renter Warden's Accounts, Etc., From A.D. 1237-1850, Together With a Chronological List of the Feoffees of the Company from A.D. 1497-1885 and an Alphabetical List of the Livery from A.D. 1496-1914, With the Dates of Their Livery (London, Privately printed, 1915), by Henry Laverock Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Jack Straw, Lighthouse Builder (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1915), by Irving Crump, illust. by Leslie Crump
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• General Construction Workers, Builders of America, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)

• Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (second revised edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Building Towers, Cheating Workers: Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Dubai (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Hadi Ghaemi (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Gold Trail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1910), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text)

• Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (second revised edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (second revised edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• The Em Kayan, by Morrison Knudsen Corporation (partial serial archives)

• Building for Tomorrow: Global Enterprise and the U.S. Construction Industry (1988), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Official Directory, Licensed Contractors of California, by California Contractors' State License Board (partial serial archives)

• Project Management for Construction: Fundamental Concepts for Owners, Engineers, Architects and Builders (version 2.2, 2008), by Chris Hendrickson and Tung Au (illustrated HTML at CMU)

• The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann (c1984), by Gilbert Herbert (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Aladdin Homes Catalog, by Aladdin Company (partial serial archives)

• The Youtz-Slick Lift Slab Method of Construction (San Antonio: Institute of Inventive Research, ca. 1952), by John B. Porter and Richard S. Colley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Contractor (partial serial archives)

• Construction Review (full serial archives)

• Heating and Ventilating (full serial archives)

• Building for Tomorrow: Global Enterprise and the U.S. Construction Industry (1988), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• General Construction Workers, Builders of America, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)

• Crumbling Dreams: What You Must Know Before Building or Buying a New House (or Condo), by Ruth S. Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

• And They Built a Crooked House, by Ruth S. Martin
  • frame-dependent HTML at Lakeside Press
  • simpler HTML at Lakeside Press

• A Non-Computer Approach to the Critical Path Method for the Construction Industry (second edition; Stanford: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1962), by John W. Fondahl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dangers in the Dust: Inside the Global Asbestos Trade (digital newsbook edition, c2010), by Center for Public Integrity (PDF at publicintegrity.org)

• The Great Algonkin Flint Mines at Coxsackie (Rochester, NY: Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1925), by Arthur C. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (Hesperia supplement #15; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1975), by Stephen V. Tracy, contrib. by Sterling Dow (PDF in Greece)

• Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Stephen V. Tracy (HTML at UC Press)

• Structural Models for Architectural and Engineering Education (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963), by Peter Jan Pahl and Keto Soosaar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forty Lessons in Carpentry Workshop Practice (new and enlarged edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1896), by Charles F. Mitchell and George A. Michell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Excavating Engineer (partial serial archives)

• Engineering Statistics and Quality Control (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1953), by Irving W. Burr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jenkins: The Definitive Guide (Creative Commons edition, c2011), by John Ferguson Smart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Grain Quality in International Trade: A Comparison of Major U.S. Competitors (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Summary: Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses (2008), ed. by Ronda Hughes (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• WHO QualityRights Tool Kit: Assessing and Improving Quality and Human Rights in Mental Health and Social Care Facilities (with supplementary documents; c2012), by World Health Organization (PDF with commentary at who.int)
• Best at Home: Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings, ed. by Jill C. Feasley (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes (1986), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.