We have compiled a list of 61 commonly used construction materials, including images and uses in this article.
1. Mostly Used Construction Materials List
Name | Image | Use |
1. Cement | ✔ Used as a binder in concrete, an essential material for all types of construction. | |
2. Sand | ✔ Used to give bulk, strength, and other properties to construction materials like asphalt and concrete.✔ It is also a significant component of rendering. | |
3. Steel | ✔ Used in the manufacture of windows, railings, etc. | |
4. Bitumen | ✔ Used for road construction, roofing, damp proofing, waterproofing, and other applications | |
5. Concrete | ✔ Used for constructing foundations, roads, bridges, walls, etc. | |
6. Structural steel | ✔ Used for the construction of steel structures. | |
7. Binding Wires | ✔ Used for tying applications in the field of construction. | |
8. Fly Ash | ✔ Used to improve the strength and segregation of the concrete and make it easier to pump. | |
9. Aggregate | ✔ Used in construction to provide drainage, fill voids, protect pipes, and provide hard surfaces. | |
10. Bricks | ✔ Used as a structural as well as a non-structural to make walls. | |
11. Blocks | ✔ Used for various purposes, such as building load-bearing walls, retaining walls, partitions, and foundations. | |
12. Timber | ✔ Used in doors, windows, cabinets, cupboards, shelves, tables, railings, etc. | |
13. Nails | ✔ Most commonly used to fasten pieces of wood together. | |
14. Lime | ✔ Used for soil stabilization in roads, earthen dams, airfields, and building foundations. | |
15. Paint | ✔ Used to protect all sorts of buildings and structures from the effects of water and sun. | |
16. Bamboo | ✔ Used to construct bamboo buildings as well as used for scaffolding. | |
17. Pipes | ✔ Used for water supply system. | |
18. Glass | ✔ Used as insulation material, structural component, and external glazing material. | |
19. Tiles | ✔ Used to cover surfaces like roofs, floors, and walls. | |
20. Marble | ✔ Used principally in buildings and monuments, interior decoration, sculpture, tabletops, etc. | |
21. Mud | ✔ Used to coat, seal, or adhere to materials. | |
22. Metal Sheet | ✔ Used in exterior or interior home decor and roofing material. | |
23. Tar | ✔ Used in road works. | |
24. Chipboard | ✔ Used for floor decking, shelving, and general building work. | |
25. Water | ✔ Used in the preparation of mortar and concrete and for curing work. | |
26. Rope | ✔ Used for dragging and lifting. | |
27. Stone | ✔ Stones pave roads, footpaths, and open spaces around buildings.✔ Also used in roofing. | |
28. Green Cement | ✔ Used as a binder in concrete. | |
29. Soil | ✔ Used for making bricks, Cement, etc. | |
30. Granite | ✔ Used in buildings, bridges, paving, monuments, and other exterior projects. | |
31. Primer | ✔ It is Used for better paint adhesion to the surface and increases paint durability. Also used for UPVC spray painting. | |
32. Straw | ✔ Straw is a versatile byproduct of agriculture used in roofing, insulation, flooring, and more. | |
33. Asphalt | ✔ Used in the construction of flexible pavement and driveways. | |
34. Iron | ✔ Used in making fencing walls, structural parts of buildings, windows, etc. | |
35. White Cement | ✔ Used for fixing marble tiles and sheathing walls, floors, and roofs. | |
36. Aluminum | ✔ Used in external facades, roofs, walls, windows, and doors. | |
37. Rubber | ✔ Used in the construction of Joints, seals, and gaskets. | |
38. Alloy | ✔ Used in stainless steel pipelines. | |
39. Gypsum Board | ✔ Used as a finish for walls and ceilings.✔ Also used as a heat insulator. | |
40. Gypsum | ✔ Used for plastering. | |
41. Ceramics | ✔ Used in tiling and other decorative purposes. | |
42. Carbon Fiber | ✔ It is used as reinforcement, but it is light, highly durable & strong compared to support. | |
43. Copper | ✔ Used in the construction industry to form pipes and tubing for potable water distribution and heating and cooling systems. | |
44. Foam | ✔ Used for its lightweight, durable properties in sealing and thermal insulation applications. | |
45. Fabric | ✔ Provide access between the inside and the outside of the building. | |
46. Surkhi | ✔ Used for decorative purposes to give traditional looks. | |
47. Liquid waterproofing gel | ✔ Liquid waterproofing products are specifically used for making concrete or mortar waterproof. | |
48. Hempcrete | ✔ Used for walls and roofs. | |
49. Planks | ✔ Used as temporary platforms on supported scaffolds | |
50. Steel plate | ✔ Used in roofing. | |
51. Plastic Bottles | ✔ Used for preparing walls and boundary walls. | |
52. Sanitary and fittings | ✔ Sanitary fittings ensure hygienic sealing of pipelines. | |
53. Wire | ✔ Used for lifting high loads with the aid of construction vehicles. | |
54. Solvent | ✔ Used in many construction products, such as paints, thinners, and glues. | |
55. Thinner | ✔ Used to dissolve paint and reduce the viscosity of the paint. | |
56. Cow dunk | ✔ Used as a binding material. | |
57. Clay |
| ✔ Used in the preparation of bricks. |
58. Bleaching Powder | ✔ Used for disinfecting drinking water supply to make it potable. | |
59. Concrete admixture | ✔ Used to improve the behavior of concrete under a variety of conditions. | |
60. Plastic | ✔ Used as a roof as well as a ventilator ( light). | |
61. Gravel | ✔ Used for road construction, mixing with asphalt, and as construction fill. | |
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