In this book, Roma Agrawal unfolds the shocking science behind her profession as an engineer. There are various chapters dealing with the different challenges in engineering like how to keep a building from falling down or how a bridge is built to span vast distances. It goes through time from ancient cultures like the Romans who developed skills used even today up to modern time solutions. Built offers an amazing window into a subject that makes up the foundation of everyday lives by interweaving science, history, illustrations, and personal stories. It deals with how a new building goes up, what it is built upon and how it remains standing. In today's world which is full of extraordinary engineering feats, this book quite interestingly gives the background picture of the details in creating them.