# Construction

Construction is treated as an interconnected process and meaning field. The chapter moves from grounded mechanisms to incentives, risks, history, relationships, mapshifts, and human consequences.

## Core traversal

- [Construction Loan](../nodes/mortgage/construction-loan.md) — Construction Loan serves a timing, documentation, collateral, or borrower profile outside ordinary channels
- [Construction-to-Permanent Loan](../nodes/mortgage/construction-to-permanent-loan.md) — Construction-to-Permanent Loan serves a timing, documentation, collateral, or borrower profile outside ordinary channels
- [Construction Loan — CRE](../nodes/commercial/construction-loan-cre.md) — Construction Loan — CRE allocates priority, control, recourse, and return across a commercial capital stack
- [Groundbreaking](../nodes/development/groundbreaking.md) — Groundbreaking turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Foundation](../nodes/development/foundation.md) — Foundation turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Framing](../nodes/development/framing.md) — Framing turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Building Envelope](../nodes/development/building-envelope.md) — Building Envelope turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing](../nodes/development/mechanical-electrical-plumbing.md) — Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Topping Out](../nodes/development/topping-out.md) — Topping Out turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Certificate of Occupancy](../nodes/development/certificate-of-occupancy.md) — Certificate of Occupancy turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Change Order](../nodes/development/change-order.md) — Change Order turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Draw Request](../nodes/development/draw-request.md) — Draw Request turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Retainage](../nodes/development/retainage.md) — Retainage turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Punch List](../nodes/development/punch-list.md) — Punch List turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Substantial Completion](../nodes/development/substantial-completion.md) — Substantial Completion turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Mechanic's Lien](../nodes/development/mechanics-lien.md) — Mechanic's Lien turns plans, labor, materials, and capital into built form
- [Construction Cost](../nodes/forces/construction-cost.md) — Construction Cost connects local property outcomes to rates, labor, demographics, liquidity, and expectations

## How to read this chapter

Follow claims and cash flows separately. Ask who holds authority, who supplies information, who receives benefit, who carries risk, and what changes when time or scale changes. Keep sourced fact, industry practice, synthesis, interpretation, and symbolic expression distinguishable.

## Mapshifting prompts

1. Change the unit of analysis from property to right, loan, cash flow, role, record, neighborhood, or institution.
2. Change the clock from closing day to thirty years, one market cycle, one building life, or several generations.
3. Change stakeholder and ask which previously invisible cost becomes central.
4. Return to the human map before choosing a move.

## Sentinel handoff

Legal, regulatory, fair-lending, historical, financial, cultural, and jurisdiction-specific annotations remain separate from Engine Output. They inform contextual use without flattening the graph.
