Failures sometimes happen during construction. These tragedies could almost always have been prevented with proper know-how. This seminar course manual addresses potential problems, presents case histories, and provides information to help prevent failures from occurring. In addition to the ACI Committee reports, Guide for Making a Condition Survey of Concrete in Service, and Strength Evaluation of Existing Concrete Buildings; the contents include the ACI publications entitled Lessons from Failures of Concrete Structures, an excerpt ACI's special publication on concrete durability, and Concrete Construction Magazine's collection of articles on Failure Lessons in Concrete Construction, supported by twenty-five other articles taken from Concrete International: Design and Construction. Learn why construction failures have happened so that you are not doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Also included is a short book by Jacob Feld (ACI M-1).