building material

Also known as construction material, construction materials, building materials

material used for construction purposes

AI overview

Building material is any substance used to construct structures like houses, bridges, and roads. It matters because the quality, durability, and properties of these materials directly affect how safe, long-lasting, and functional the buildings and infrastructure we depend on will be.

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In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 2,589 inbound references to building material, and connects out to corrosion, mortar and prefabrication.

It is catalogued under the topic Building materials.

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Research

77,429 papers

Clean construction and demolition waste material cycles through optimised pre-demolition waste audit documentation: A review on building material assessment tools.ReviewWaste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2020Rašković M, Ragossnig AM, Kondracki K et al.DOI: 10.1177/0734242X20936763
The influence of building material structure on radon emanation.Journal of radiological protection : official journal of the Society for Radiological Protection · 2022Kuzmanović P, Miljević B, Todorović N et al.DOI: 10.1088/1361-6498/aca59d
Building Material Use and Associated Environmental Impacts in China 2000-2015.Environmental science & technology · 2018Huang B, Zhao F, Fishman T et al.DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b04104
Characterization of chemical transport in human skin and building material.Journal of hazardous materials · 2023Wang H, Wang H, Wang K et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131917
Review of development survey of phase change material models in building applications.ReviewTheScientificWorldJournal · 2014Akeiber HJ, Wahid MA, Hussen HM et al.DOI: 10.1155/2014/391690
Radioactivity level evaluation in granite building raw material production area in Cenxi, China.Radiation protection dosimetry · 2023Liu Z, Lu H, Wang T et al.DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncad222
Leveraging Building Material as Part of the In-Plane Robotic Kinematic System for Collective Construction.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Leder S, Kim H, Oguz OS et al.DOI: 10.1002/advs.202201524
From expansion to efficiency: Machine learning-based forecasting of Japan's building material stocks under demographic declines.The Science of the total environment · 2024Wang L, Zhang R, Liu Z et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175634

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Encyclopedic overview

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Building material is material used for construction. Many naturally occurring substances, such as clay, rocks, sand, wood, and even twigs and leaves, have been used to construct buildings and other structures, like bridges. Apart from naturally occurring materials, many man-made products are in use, some more and some less synthetic. The manufacturing of building materials is an established industry in many countries and the use of these materials is typically segmented into specific specialty trades, such as carpentry, insulation, plumbing, and roofing work. They provide the make-up of habitats and structures including homes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “building material” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.