Explore: Local Building Materials

synthetic. The manufacturing of building materials is an established industry in many countries and the use of these materials is typically segmented into

many former British colonies where the style might be adapted to local building materials or customs, for example in Sydney, Australia and Melaka, Malaysia

insulation materials have health risks, some so significant the materials are no longer allowed to be used but remain in use in some older buildings such as

of local building materials - and more importantly, the rich and diverse cultural contexts. In this hybridity lies the quality of these buildings. Architecture

or recycled materials. The use of rapidly renewable materials is increasingly a focus. In addition to relying on natural building materials, the emphasis

Somersets declined to restore it and it became first a source of local building materials, then a romantic ruin. It is now a tourist attraction. Following

architecture in Africa that incorporates local building materials such as adobe bricks and thatch as well as modern materials like reinforced concrete and works

packaging, sound absorption, and structural building materials such as bricks. In the United Kingdom, the Materials for Life (M4L) project was founded at Cardiff

Heidelberg Materials is a German multinational building materials company headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Formerly known as HeidelbergCement AG,

the bungalows were constructed using local building materials. A large fraction of the older residential buildings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are bungalows