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[giuliog]

Hello,

a friend of mine which leads a construction company (apartments, building renovation and designing) called "Building Service House".

I was wondering if to a mother tongue English speaker this name would sound something like construction company name or something else, or it's not even grammatically correct in English?

Does "Building Service House" sound like a construction company brand name?

What does this name makes you think of?

Does this name makes any sense if you didn't know this is a building/construction company?

Thanks a lot

[redset]

To me that sounds like the name of an actual house or building. As a noun phrase the noun is the last word (house), and the words before it modify the noun to provide specific information; in this case the name seems to refer to a house which has something to do with building- or construction-related services.

You can rearrange it to get 'House-Building Service', which sounds like the company provides services that are directly related to building houses. Personally I don't think it's a very catchy name, and I think construction sounds more professional than building.