The phrase "attempted to construct a" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an effort to build or create something, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The researchers attempted to construct a model that accurately predicts climate change impacts."
Alternatives: "sought to build a" or "tried to create a".
Another worker there failed to supervise a resident, who attempted to construct a Molotov cocktail.
He also attempted to construct a modern industrial system to process Egypt's raw materials.
At this point I was reminded of a programme I saw where a team of experts attempted to construct a squirrel-proof bird table.
From these results, we attempted to construct a system to monitor the foreign protein production in yeast by simultaneous displaying the enhanced GFP (EGFP).
Don Rigoberto, who has attempted to construct a consoling reality out of the books and music he loves, decides that the predatoriness around him is "one more proof that the small spaces of civilisation would never prevail against immeasurable barbarism".
He had an X-ray-like ability to perceive melodic kinships beneath sonic surfaces, and in his ambitious Norton Lectures, of 1973, he attempted to construct a global syntax of music, along the lines of Noam Chomsky's structural linguistics.
As with methods such as the AUSM-family, this work further attempted to construct an explicit upwind method that combines both simplicity and accuracy.
Carlson's raiders, along with troops from the U.S. Army's 147th Infantry Regiment, were to provide security for 500 Seabees as they attempted to construct an airfield at that location.
Carlson's raiders along with troops from the U.S. Army's 147th Infantry Regiment were to provide security for 500 Seabees as they attempted to construct an airfield.
An international school group was attempting to construct a new school in Dammam and issued a request for proposals from construction firms.
Attempt to construct a Birdwatchers XI, but can't get much further than Scunthorpe's Matthew Sparrow.
