Building material is any material which is used for a construction purpose. Just about every type of available material has been used at one time or another for creating various human and animal homes, structures, and technologies. We're talking here about habitats and structures including homes.
Over the course of civilization, living spaces and their related structures have been created using a myriad materials, from mud to metal, and from plastic to grass. Today the production and assembly of various building materials is a multi-billion if not trillion dollar industry, and environmental concern has recently surfaced about the effects of such a massive resource extraction on a global scale.
Here's a list of some of building material :-
1 Natural materials
1.1 Mud and clay
1.2 Rock
1.3 Thatch
1.4 Brush
2 Ice
3 Wood
4 Brick and Block
5 Concrete
6 Metal
7 Glass
8 Ceramics
9 Plastic
10 Fabric
11 Foam
12 Wood cement composites
13 Virtual materials
