erect
v.v. to build or put up a structure like a building, wall, or fence. You use this when talking about construction or setting something upright.
v. to construct or set up a structure; to raise something into a vertical position. Transitive — requires a direct object.
The workers will erect a new fence around the garden.
The city plans to erect a monument in the central square to honor the local poet.
Engineers were tasked to erect a temporary bridge across the ravine to allow heavy machinery to reach the remote construction site before the rainy season began.
From Middle English erect, a borrowing from Latin ērectus (“upright”), past participle of ērigō (“raise, set up”), from ē- (“out”) + regō (“to direct, keep straight, guide”).
From Middle English erecten, from the adjective (see above).
The verb is transitive and requires a direct object; it is more formal than 'build' or 'put up'.