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Building materials

Building material made from earth and organic materials

Form of petroleum, primarily used in road construction

Asphalt concrete

Material used for paving roads

Block or a single unit of a ceramic material used in masonry construction

Masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar

Hydraulic binder used in the composition of mortar and concrete

Wooden siding on a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping

Composite construction material

Common structural element of modern buildings

Construction aggregate

Coarse to fine grain rock materials used in concrete

Panel made of gypsum, used in interior construction

Engineered wood

Range of derivative wood products engineered for uniform and predictable structural performance

Block of ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and fireplaces

Material used to span gaps in structural framing and form a base on which to apply plaster

Lath and plaster

Building process

Wood that has been processed into beams and planks

The building of structures from individual units of stone, brick, or block

Mortar (masonry)

Workable paste used to bind building blocks

General term for a broad range of building and sculpture materials

General term for a broad range of building and sculpture materials

General term for a broad range of building and sculpture materials

Portland cement

Binder used as basic ingredient of concrete

Precast concrete

Construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mold

Prestressed concrete

Form of concrete used in construction

A place from which a geological material has been excavated from the ground

Technique for constructing foundations, floors, and walls by compacting a damp mixture of sub soil

Ready-mix concrete

Concrete that is manufactured in a batch plant, according to a set engineered mix design

Steel reinforcement

Reinforced concrete

Concrete with rebar

Building material used in construction during the late Roman Republic and Empire

Overlapping plates for covering a roof

Facility where logs are cut into lumber

A temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials

Building material

Siding (construction)

Exterior cladding material applied to the walls of a building

Mostly elongated, rectangular stone with flat surface

Creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone

Manufactured piece of hard-wearing material

Wattle and daub

Building technique using woven wooden supports packed with clay or mud

Wood (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Also known as seasoning, which is the reduction of the moisture content of wood prior to its use

Wood–plastic composite

Composite materials made of wood fiber and thermoplastics

Process of making objects from wood