This book, with 2 compact discs, has been prepared especially to aid communication among building contractors and subcontractors, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, heavy machinery operators and others in the construction industry, where both English-speaking and Hispanic personnel work together. Author William Harvey provides an informal, user-friendly approach to Spanish, concentrating on everyday words and phrases that apply to the building trades and to related skills and professions. True-to-life bilingual vocabulary and dialogues, presented in the book and dramatised on the compact discs, recreate work and work-related situations. The compact discs closely reflect the book's content and offer the added bonus of listening comprehension and Spanish word pronunciation.