UNIT-2 EMERGING

BUILDING MATERIALS
“ECO FRIENDLY MATERIALS”
 EMERGING BUILDING
MATERIALS
• Bendable concrete, Self healing
concrete, Translucent concrete
• Electrified wood
• Bio engineered bricks
• Sensitiles
• Carbon fibers
• Liquid granite
• Eco bricks
 Eco-friendly materials :
“The materials which cause minimum damage to
the environment, since the use of raw materials to
final product, are considered to be eco-friendly
materials”

The Properties of Eco-friendly materials are:

1.Minimum damage to the environment.
2.Require minimum energy for manufacturing.
3.It should be recyclable and reusable.
4.Locally available and can be
extracted easily from nature.
 WHY..??
• Phenomenal growth in the construction
industry that depends upon depletable
resources.
• Production of building materials leads to
irreversible environmental impacts.
• Using eco-friendly materials is the best
way to build a eco-friendly building.
 PROPERTIES

Renewable Source Reuse of Biodegradable

Waste
product Reuse/recycle
ECO-FRIENDLY
MATERIALS& TECHNIQUES
Embodied Energy
Aids Energy
Local Availability Efficiency in
buildings
Reduction in air, Durability &
land and water Life span
pollution
 Eco-friendly materials :
Naturally available eco-friendly materials or
products developed using Eco-friendly raw-
materials are
1.Bamboo / timber
2.Sun dried bricks.
3.Mud used for houses, wall plastering.
 Eco-friendly materials :
The Eco-friendly materials can also be
manufactured using waste products of some
industries.
The following materials fall under these
categories.
1.Fly ash Bricks
2.Ply-wood Manufactured from
Bagasse.
 HOW TO FIND IF A BUILDING
MATERIAL IS ECO FRIENDLY OR
NOT…??

EXAMPLE:-
BUILDING MATERIAL – WOOD
ECO FRIENDLY??
NON ECO FRIENDLY?
 Case-1
Wood - eco friendly
Availability - 90%

Case-2
Wood – Non eco friendly
Availability - 20%
 SOLAR PANEL TILES
• Transform the energy of sun into usable
electricity to power your home.
 UNFIRED CLAY BRICKS
• Using earth materials & are air dried
instead of fired conventional bricks.
• Eco friendly.
• Benefit of reducing the energy used in
manufacturing & increases strength &
decreases shrinkage.
FLYASH BRICKS
PLYWOOD FROM BAGASSE
 BAMBOO AS
REINFORCEMENT
 Eco-friendly

Material Technique

RAT TRAP BOND

 REDUCES POLLUTION

 Air Pollution-
Use of
materials with low VOC
emissions e.g. Cement
Paints
 Land Pollution- Materials
that reuse waste that
 Water would otherwise have
resulted in landfill. e.g.
Pollution –
Flyash Bricks.
Materials that prevent
leaching.
PERFORMANCE
ENERGY CONSERVATION
BIODEGRADABLE
 CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS
• Ferro-cement boards for door and window shutters
• Ferro-cement Roofing Channels
• Fly-ash Sand Lime Bricks and Paver Blocks
• Gypsum Board, Tiles, Plaster, Blocks, gypsum plaster
fibre jute/sisal and glass fibre composites
• Laminated Wood Plastic Components
• Marble Mosaic Tiles
• MDF Boards and Mouldings
• Micro Concrete Roofing Tiles
• Partical Boards
• Polymerised water proof compound
• Bamboo, Bamboo Based Partcle Board & Ply Board, Bamboo
Matting
• Bricks sun dried
• Precast cement concrete blocks, lintels, slab. Structural and non-
structural modular elements
• Calcined Phospho Gypsum Wall Panels
• Calcium silicate boards and Tiles
• Cellular Light Weight Concrete Blocks
• Cement Paint
• Clay roofing tiles
• Water, polyurethane and acrylic based chemical admixtures for
corrosion removal, rust prevention, water proofing
• Epoxy Resin System, Flooring, sealants, adhesives and admixtures
• Polymerised water proof compound
• Portland Pozzolana Cement Flyash / Calcined
Clay Based
• Portland Slag Cement
• RCC Door Frames
• Ready Mix Cement Concrete
• Rubber Wood Finger Joint Board
• Stone dust
• Water proof compound, adhesive, Polymer,
Powder