Introduction to Building Materials

Description

Building material: is any material which is used for construction purposes in the form of solid, semi-solid or liquid, processed or unprocessed (raw material). Basically the building materials are identified into two types-the natural and synthetic products.
Many naturally occurring substances, such as clay, rocks, sand, and wood, even twigs and leaves, have been used to construct buildings.
Apart from naturally occurring materials, many man-made products are in use, some more and some less synthetic, such as fired bricks and clay blocks, ceramics, cement, composites, concrete, thermal and sound insulation, glass, metal, plastics, polymers , etc.