Eco-friendly materials used in construction

Eco-friendly

“products or services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose”.

A material by itself can be eco-friendly, e.g. Bamboo.

Materials can be eco-friendly also if they can assist in reduction of the energy used in the building during operation, and maintenance.

It is difficult to get a material that has all these properties, and it thus becomes a comparative assessment to identify eco-friendly materials.

Following are the eco – friendly materials

• Stone Dust
• Calcium silicate boards
• Precast cement concrete blocks
• Cellular lightweight concrete blocks
• Compressed stabilized earth blocks
• Sun-dried bricks
• Clay roofing tiles
• Cement paint
• Acrylic based chemical admixtures for waterproofing corrosion removal, rust prevention etc.
• Epoxy resin system, adhesives, and admixtures
• Ferro-cement panels for door windows shutters
• Ferro-cement roofing channels
• Fly-ash paver blocks
• Fly-ash bricks
• Gypsum block, tiles, and boards
• Micro-concrete roofing tiles
• Polymerized waterproof compound
• Portland pozzolana cement flash
• Concrete with coal ash