portions which may be integral to the body or may be of plastic or metal and suitable secured to the body in some cases two mutually perpendicular slots are provided application_number US 36037299 A description according to the present invention a construction support device is provided which conveniently provides anchoring of a building element to a building site as illustrated herein the invention may be practiced in accordance with a first embodiment of fig1 wherein the construction support device is securely attached to a concrete base or pier the device of fig1 can be inexpensively molded from plastic or stamped from metal and is simplified in its use and constructions alternatively the invention may be practiced in accordance with other embodiments such as shown in fig1 and 17 there the device is inexpensively poured from concrete together with a pier block to form a single cast one piece body in either type of embodiment the invention provides a new and advantageous support for securely seating construction members in either a horizontal or vertical orientation with reference first to fig5 through 8 the numeral 10 represents a base or pier block of conventional structure which is commonly used to support decks carports etc this block is generally constructed of concrete and assumes different shapes in most cases the block is tapered to a lesser dimension toward the top the top and bottom surfaces 12 and 13 respectively are.