Intended as a comprehensive textbook for students, as well as a reference for the professional, this book is a study of building defects, their diagnosis and cure. It deals with the full range of materials, components and elements involved in domestic, commercial and industrial buildings. Each chapter is illustrated with line diagrams and supplemented with references to relevant literature. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate students of building, building surveying, quantity surveying and architecture, as well as at practitioners in the above fields, local authority engineers, contractors and property owners.