This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance.

Introduction and Rehabilitation: Aims& Scopes.- Construction Systems.- Building Materials and Components.- Laboratorial and In-field Tests.- Modeling.- Vulnerability Assessment.- Construction Maintenance.