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60+ Construction Materials List: With Best Images and Uses

 

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 Cement ✔ Used as a binder in concrete, an essential material for all types of construction.
2. Sand 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 Steel ✔ Used in the manufacture of windows, railings, etc.
4. Bitumen  Bitumen ✔ Used for road construction, roofingdamp proofing, waterproofing, and other applications
5. Concrete Types of Concrete ✔ Used for constructing foundations, roads, bridges, walls, etc.
 
6. Structural steel Structural steel ✔ Used for the construction of steel structures.
 
7. Binding Wires Binding Wires ✔ Used for tying applications in the field of construction.
 
8. Fly Ash Fly Ash ✔ Used to improve the strength and segregation of the concrete and make it easier to pump.
 
9. Aggregate Coarse Aggregate ✔ Used in construction to provide drainage, fill voids, protect pipes, and provide hard surfaces.
 
10. Bricks Qualities of Good Bricks ✔ Used as a structural as well as a non-structural to make walls.
 
11. Blocks Blocks ✔ Used for various purposes, such as building load-bearing walls, retaining walls, partitions, and foundations.
 
12. Timber Timber ✔ Used in doors, windows, cabinets, cupboards, shelves, tables, railings, etc.
 
13. Nails Nails ✔ Most commonly used to fasten pieces of wood together.
 
14. Lime  Lime ✔ Used for soil stabilization in roads, earthen dams, airfields, and building foundations.
 
15. Paint Paint ✔ Used to protect all sorts of buildings and structures from the effects of water and sun.
 
16. Bamboo Bamboo as a Construction Material ✔ Used to construct bamboo buildings as well as used for scaffolding.
 
17. Pipes Types of Pipes ✔ Used for water supply system.
 
18. Glass Glass ✔ Used as insulation material, structural component, and external glazing material.
 
19. Tiles                ✔ Used to cover surfaces like roofs, floors, and walls.
 
20. Marble Marbles ✔ Used principally in buildings and monuments, interior decoration, sculpture, tabletops, etc.
 
21. Mud Marbles ✔ Used to coat, seal, or adhere to materials.
 
22. Metal Sheet Metal Sheet ✔ Used in exterior or interior home decor and roofing material.
 
23. Tar Tar ✔ Used in road works.
 
24. Chipboard Chipboard ✔ Used for floor decking, shelving, and general building work.
 
25. Water Water ✔ Used in the preparation of mortar and concrete and for curing work.
 
26. Rope  Rope ✔ Used for dragging and lifting.
 
27. Stone Stone ✔ Stones pave roads, footpaths, and open spaces around buildings.✔ Also used in roofing.
 
28. Green Cement Green Cement ✔ Used as a binder in concrete.
 
29. Soil Soil ✔ Used for making bricks, Cement, etc.
 
30. Granite Granite ✔ Used in buildings, bridges, paving, monuments, and other exterior projects.
 
31. Primer Primer ✔ It is Used for better paint adhesion to the surface and increases paint durability. Also used for UPVC spray painting.
 
32. Straw Straw ✔ Straw is a versatile byproduct of agriculture used in roofing, insulation, flooring, and more.
 
33. Asphalt  

Asphalt

✔ Used in the construction of flexible pavement and driveways.
 
34. Iron Tin ✔ Used in making fencing walls, structural parts of buildings, windows, etc.
 
35. White Cement White Cement ✔ Used for fixing marble tiles and sheathing walls, floors, and roofs.
 
36. Aluminum Aluminum ✔ Used in external facades, roofs, walls, windows, and doors.
 
37. Rubber Aluminum ✔ Used in the construction of Joints, seals, and gaskets.
 
38. Alloy Alloy ✔ Used in stainless steel pipelines.
 
39. Gypsum Board Gypsum Board ✔ Used as a finish for walls and ceilings.✔ Also used as a heat insulator.
 
40. Gypsum Gypsum ✔ Used for plastering.
 
41. Ceramics Ceramics ✔ Used in tiling and other decorative purposes.
 
42. Carbon Fiber Carbon Fiber ✔ It is used as reinforcement, but it is light, highly durable & strong compared to support.
 
43. Copper Copper ✔ Used in the construction industry to form pipes and tubing for potable water distribution and heating and cooling systems.
 
44. Foam Foam ✔ Used for its lightweight, durable properties in sealing and thermal insulation applications.
 
45. Fabric  

Fabric

✔ Provide access between the inside and the outside of the building.
 
46. Surkhi Surkhi ✔ Used for decorative purposes to give traditional looks.
 
47. Liquid waterproofing gel   

Liquid waterproofing gel 

✔ Liquid waterproofing products are specifically used for making concrete or mortar waterproof.
 
48. Hempcrete Hempcrete ✔ Used for walls and roofs.
 
49. Planks Planks ✔ Used as temporary platforms on supported scaffolds
 
50. Steel plate Steel plate ✔ Used in roofing.
 
51. Plastic Bottles Plastic Bottles ✔ Used for preparing walls and boundary walls.
 
52. Sanitary and fittings Sanitary and fittings ✔ Sanitary fittings ensure hygienic sealing of pipelines.
 
53. Wire Wire ✔ Used for lifting high loads with the aid of construction vehicles.
 
54. Solvent Solvent ✔ Used in many construction products, such as paints, thinners, and glues.
 
55. Thinner  

Thinner

✔ Used to dissolve paint and reduce the viscosity of the paint.
 
56. Cow dunk  Cow dunk  ✔ Used as a binding material.
 
57. Clay clay

 

✔ Used in the preparation of bricks.
 
58. Bleaching Powder Bleaching Powder ✔ Used for disinfecting drinking water supply to make it potable.
 
59. Concrete admixture Concrete admixture ✔ Used to improve the behavior of concrete under a variety of conditions.
 
60. Plastic  plastic-roofing-sheet ✔ Used as a roof as well as a ventilator ( light).
 
61. Gravel  

Gravel

✔ Used for road construction, mixing with asphalt, and as construction fill.
 

 


 

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