Construction sites can be scary places, fraught with danger, as workers and machines come together to build.
Project procurement can feel like trying to decipher a Ouija Board, report some industry stakeholders, and never mind the monsters in a site porta potty or the vampires in contract language and change orders.
With Halloween upon us, your Daily Commercial News (DCN) and Journal of Commerce (JOC) publications continue their long-held tradition of haunted construction storytelling with this year’s Sinister Seven – A Haunted Construction BOO-ks Guide.
The books in this guide needed to have construction or construction-related activity to qualify, from residential to the trades to DIY. We also have a special The Construction Record podcast episode to partner with this list. Have a listen to us discussing the Sinister Seven and other various current issues that go “bump in the night,” bringing fear to the hearts of the industry.
Assembly of this guide was completely unscientific, and we have not read all the books. However, through friend recommendations, Reddit threads, book reviews and other similarly compiled lists, we curated these Sinister Seven since they showed up the most in our research.
The research was not aided by AI because using AI to compile this is a scary thought – one doesn’t get to explore the debates and interpretations these books generated among their fans if you let a machine do it for you…and then the machine begins to take control…and then it is you being controlled by the machine and a dark, post-apocalyptic landscape awaits you as you mindlessly follow its beck-and-call…hmm, does that sound like an outline for a scary tale slowly evolving in real time? Or, yet another Terminator sequel (please, no)? OK, back to the BOO-ks.
A happy and safe Halloween to all.
In no particular order, here is your Sinister Seven – A Haunted Construction BOO-ks Guide:
