60+ Construction Materials List: With Best Images and Uses

We have compiled a list of 61 commonly used construction materials, including images and uses in this article.

1. Mostly Used Construction Materials List

Name	Image	Use
1. Cement		✔ Used as a binder in concrete, an essential material for all types of construction.
2. Sand		✔ Used to give bulk, strength, and other properties to construction materials like asphalt and concrete. ✔ It is also a significant component of rendering.
3. Steel		✔ Used in the manufacture of windows, railings, etc.
4. Bitumen		✔ Used for road construction, roofing, damp proofing, waterproofing, and other applications
5. Concrete		✔ Used for constructing foundations, roads, bridges, walls, etc.
6. Structural steel		✔ Used for the construction of steel structures.
7. Binding Wires		✔ Used for tying applications in the field of construction.
8. Fly Ash		✔ Used to improve the strength and segregation of the concrete and make it easier to pump.
9. Aggregate		✔ Used in construction to provide drainage, fill voids, protect pipes, and provide hard surfaces.
10. Bricks		✔ Used as a structural as well as a non-structural to make walls.
11. Blocks		✔ Used for various purposes, such as building load-bearing walls, retaining walls, partitions, and foundations.
12. Timber		✔ Used in doors, windows, cabinets, cupboards, shelves, tables, railings, etc.
13. Nails		✔ Most commonly used to fasten pieces of wood together.
14. Lime		✔ Used for soil stabilization in roads, earthen dams, airfields, and building foundations.
15. Paint		✔ Used to protect all sorts of buildings and structures from the effects of water and sun.
16. Bamboo		✔ Used to construct bamboo buildings as well as used for scaffolding.
17. Pipes		✔ Used for water supply system.
18. Glass		✔ Used as insulation material, structural component, and external glazing material.
19. Tiles		✔ Used to cover surfaces like roofs, floors, and walls.
20. Marble		✔ Used principally in buildings and monuments, interior decoration, sculpture, tabletops, etc.
21. Mud		✔ Used to coat, seal, or adhere to materials.
22. Metal Sheet		✔ Used in exterior or interior home decor and roofing material.
23. Tar		✔ Used in road works.
24. Chipboard		✔ Used for floor decking, shelving, and general building work.
25. Water		✔ Used in the preparation of mortar and concrete and for curing work.
26. Rope		✔ Used for dragging and lifting.
27. Stone		✔ Stones pave roads, footpaths, and open spaces around buildings. ✔ Also used in roofing.
28. Green Cement		✔ Used as a binder in concrete.
29. Soil		✔ Used for making bricks, Cement, etc.
30. Granite		✔ Used in buildings, bridges, paving, monuments, and other exterior projects.
31. Primer		✔ It is Used for better paint adhesion to the surface and increases paint durability. Also used for UPVC spray painting.
32. Straw		✔ Straw is a versatile byproduct of agriculture used in roofing, insulation, flooring, and more.
33. Asphalt		✔ Used in the construction of flexible pavement and driveways.
34. Iron		✔ Used in making fencing walls, structural parts of buildings, windows, etc.
35. White Cement		✔ Used for fixing marble tiles and sheathing walls, floors, and roofs.
36. Aluminum		✔ Used in external facades, roofs, walls, windows, and doors.
37. Rubber		✔ Used in the construction of Joints, seals, and gaskets.
38. Alloy		✔ Used in stainless steel pipelines.
39. Gypsum Board		✔ Used as a finish for walls and ceilings. ✔ Also used as a heat insulator.
40. Gypsum		✔ Used for plastering.
41. Ceramics		✔ Used in tiling and other decorative purposes.
42. Carbon Fiber		✔ It is used as reinforcement, but it is light, highly durable & strong compared to support.
43. Copper		✔ Used in the construction industry to form pipes and tubing for potable water distribution and heating and cooling systems.
44. Foam		✔ Used for its lightweight, durable properties in sealing and thermal insulation applications.
45. Fabric		✔ Provide access between the inside and the outside of the building.
46. Surkhi		✔ Used for decorative purposes to give traditional looks.
47. Liquid waterproofing gel		✔ Liquid waterproofing products are specifically used for making concrete or mortar waterproof.
48. Hempcrete		✔ Used for walls and roofs.
49. Planks		✔ Used as temporary platforms on supported scaffolds
50. Steel plate		✔ Used in roofing.
51. Plastic Bottles		✔ Used for preparing walls and boundary walls.
52. Sanitary and fittings		✔ Sanitary fittings ensure hygienic sealing of pipelines.
53. Wire		✔ Used for lifting high loads with the aid of construction vehicles.
54. Solvent		✔ Used in many construction products, such as paints, thinners, and glues.
55. Thinner		✔ Used to dissolve paint and reduce the viscosity of the paint.
56. Cow dunk		✔ Used as a binding material.
57. Clay		✔ Used in the preparation of bricks.
58. Bleaching Powder		✔ Used for disinfecting drinking water supply to make it potable.
59. Concrete admixture		✔ Used to improve the behavior of concrete under a variety of conditions.
60. Plastic		✔ Used as a roof as well as a ventilator ( light).
61. Gravel		✔ Used for road construction, mixing with asphalt, and as construction fill.