All the columns of the temple at Segesta were build and abandoned after the beams and the pediments had been arranged. While, in case of Parthenon, it seems to be that some columns were not build and the structure of the wall of naos was started. Blocks of stone were used for the wall of Greek temples. Both ends of the block where touched with other blocks had rough surface except for their contour. Other sides of the block were smoothed out. The blocks were arranged from each ends of the wall to the centre, and the central block was lowered by a crane. blocks were fixed with double "T" shaped cramps.

Wood was used for the beams to support the roof. Except for the smaller temple, large temples, such as Parthenon, had problems with the durability of the beams. So the many large temples have raws of smaller columns arranged in two levels.

Tiles for the roof were usually made from clay, but tiles of marble were also used for some splendid temples. Although the shapes and the construction were varied from the regions and the periods, most of the roofs consisted of pan and cover tiles. The cover tiles of eaves tiles had plaques, Antefix, carved with a shape such as palmette. On the ends of the eaves tiles and the outmost pan tiles usually had ornaments of flowers or meander.