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Building material

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…

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Naturally occurring substances

Bio-based materialsBrushPygmy peoplesBeaverWikiups
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Man-made substances

BricksBrick clampKilnCeramicArches
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The total cost of building materials

CompositeSeismicIndoor air pollutionRed List building materialsCarbon footprint
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Overview

ConstructionClayRocksWoodBuildings
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The total cost of building materials

Naturally occurring substances

Man-made substances

Living building materials

Building products

Research and development

Sustainability

Testing and certification

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Building material

Nodes196
Edges195
Triples126
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010204
Components1

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Building material

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related to Plastics · 14
Building material → Around, Beijing National Aquatics Center, Combined, Eden Project, ETFE, High, In Europe, It, Notable, Plastics, PVC, The, Their, There
related to Metal · 12
Building material → Chrome, Copper, Corrosion, It, Metal, Other, Quonset, Steel, The, There, These, Titanium
related to Further reading · 9
Building material → Archived, Building, Download, Luboš, People, Retrieved, Souhlasím, Stavební, Svoboda
related to Economic costs · 8
Building material → Another, For, It, One, Some, Sometimes, The, This
related to Stone or rock · 7
Building material → Dry-stone, Eventually, It, Its, Rock, Stone, There
related to Ecological costs · 6
Building material → Macro, Micro, Pollution, Red List, The, Two
related to Sustainability · 6
Building material → CO2, Embodied, Energy, In, The, US
related to Thatch · 6
Building material → In, In Europe, Many African, Netherlands, Thatch, Today
related to Concrete · 5
Building material → After, Concrete, Portland, The, When
related to Wood and timber · 5
Building material → It, There, This, Today, Wood

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used building materials material clay wood concrete cement construction bricks use sand many buildings energy costs walls structural made stone

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
mininginstance ofextraction industries0.80text
petroleuminstance ofextraction industries0.80text
and logginginstance ofextraction industries0.80text
strawinstance ofMan-made substancesFired bricks and clay blocksBricks are made in a similar way to mud-bricks except without the fibrous binder0.80text
are firedinstance ofMan-made substancesFired bricks and clay blocksBricks are made in a similar way to mud-bricks except without the fibrous binder0.80text
the measurement of hydration characteristics of a cement-aggregate mixinstance ofVarious methods are used by researchers0.80text
cementinstance ofCement blocks also sometimes are filled with grout or covered with a parge coat.ConcreteConcrete is a composite building material made from the combination of aggregate and a bi…0.80text
insulating concrete forms combine the concrete forminginstance ofRecent advancements0.80text
other construction stepsinstance ofRecent advancements0.80text
fabric membranesinstance ofModern buildings can be made of flexible material0.80text
and supported by a system of steel cablesinstance ofModern buildings can be made of flexible material0.80text
rigid or internalinstance ofModern buildings can be made of flexible material0.80text

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