This new and improved edition features 104 ASTM masonry standards compiled from 3 volumes of the Annual Book of ASTM Standards. It includes specifications for products such as: mason's lime; concrete building brick; building brick and hollow brick (clay or shale); paving brick; hollow and solid load-bearing concrete masonry units; masonry and portland cement; facing title; mortar and prefabricated masonry panels.

It also includes tests for sampling and testing brick, structural clay tile, concrete masonry units, and grout; as well as methods for measuring drying shrinkage of concrete block, bond strength of mortar to unit masonry, splitting tensile strength of masonry units, masonry flexural bond strength, and water penetration and leakage.