Reading number 1, had a numerous amount of resources and information for understanding and learning the construction process, materials, and elements into designing a successful building. From reading the material, every elements has a specific type of process and its important to understand that process because without it, then the building design can fail. I found out that various materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, stone, wood, and lumber all play an important role. Each have qualities of different components such as mass, density, volume. Without these materials there is no structure  They are the main s material that creates the house figure. After you choose a structure, you have to choose which type of surface you choose. Each surface also has its own components, process, and materials that are carefully used in order to make the base material for your building. From looking at the information i now understand the various components of each and how the mixture of raw materials play a huge role. Each material has its input and output, in other words its that life-cycle inventory that does this process. I learned how raw materials, plays a role for the process/manufacture, which plays a role for the distribution and transportation, which plays a role for the construction and maintenance, and that also plays a role in the disposal and you finally get to the output. Its important to understand this because these are the phases of combining raw material which is needed to tact the structure of the design. As seen in the diagrams and charts, measurements are a huge aspect as well as understanding the different types of materials that are being used. Overall, i have gotten a better outlook and understanding on the process of how building materials and elements are an important part when construction a building.