Building construction
Principles materials and systems
Second edition
By Madan Mehta, Walter Scarborough and Diane Armpriest

Building construction: The pedagogical philosophy of this book continues to be robust and unique.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the first edition of the book was well received.

The current (second) edition retains the book’s original approach but has been substantially enhanced to bring it up-to-date with the current knowledge base and includes full-color photographs, photo-realistic renderings, and line art.

I expect that it will become the leading text on construction materials and systems, and I am honored to recommend it to the academic and professional communities with renewed confidence.

As the Chairman and CEO of one of the largest, international architecture and engineering firms, I have come to appreciate the tremendous amount of knowledge today’s architects, engineers, and constructors need to produce functional, economical, aesthetically pleasing, and high-performance buildings.

Contemporary design and construction professionals cope, on a daily basis, with an exploding amount of information, mesh together a growing range of products, work out increasingly complex assembly details, and coordinate several diverse specialties.

In this second edition of Building Construction: Principles, Materials, and Systems, the authors have once again utilized their long experience and diverse expertise to improve upon the first edition and present the complexity of building construction in a more accessible volume.