This document discusses eco-friendly building materials. It defines eco-friendly materials as those that cause minimum damage to the environment from raw material extraction through the final product. Key properties of eco-friendly materials are that they require minimum energy for manufacturing, are recyclable and reusable, and are locally available. Examples discussed include bamboo, mud bricks, fly ash bricks and plywood made from agricultural waste. The document also explores how to determine if a material is truly eco-friendly based on factors like availability, embodied energy, and potential environmental impacts.

1. UNIT-2 EMERGING
BUILDING MATERIALS
“ECO FRIENDLY MATERIALS”

2. EMERGING BUILDING
MATERIALS
• Bendable concrete, Self healing
concrete, Translucent concrete
• Electrified wood
• Bio engineered bricks
• Sensitiles
• Carbon fibers
• Liquid granite
• Eco bricks

6. Eco-friendly materials :
“The materials which cause minimum damage to
the environment, since the use of raw materials to
final product, are considered to be eco-friendly
materials”
The Properties of Eco-friendly materials are:
1.Minimum damage to the environment.
2.Require minimum energy for manufacturing.
3.It should be recyclable and reusable.
4.Locally available and can be
extracted easily from nature.

7. WHY..??
• Phenomenal growth in the construction
industry that depends upon depletable
resources.
• Production of building materials leads to
irreversible environmental impacts.
• Using eco-friendly materials is the best
way to build a eco-friendly building.

8. PROPERTIES
Renewable Source Reuse of
Waste
product
ECO-FRIENDLY
MATERIALS& TECHNIQUES
Embodied Energy
Local Availability
Reduction in air,
land and water
pollution
Durability &
Life span
Aids Energy
Efficiency in
buildings
Biodegradable
Reuse/recycle

9. Eco-friendly materials :
Naturally available eco-friendly materials or
products developed using Eco-friendly raw-
materials are
1.Bamboo / timber
2.Sun dried bricks.
3.Mud used for houses, wall plastering.

10. Eco-friendly materials :
materials can also be
waste products of some
The Eco-friendly
manufactured using
industries.
theseThe following materials fall under
categories.
1.Fly ash Bricks
2.Ply-wood Manufactured from
Bagasse.

11. HOW TO FIND IF A BUILDING
MATERIAL IS ECO FRIENDLY OR
NOT…??
EXAMPLE:-
BUILDING MATERIAL – WOOD
ECO FRIENDLY??
NON ECO FRIENDLY?

12. Case-1
Wood - eco friendly
Availability - 90%
Case-2
Wood – Non eco friendly
Availability - 20%

13. SOLAR PANEL TILES
• Transform the energy of sun into usable
electricity to power your home.

14. UNFIRED CLAY BRICKS
• Using earth materials & are air dried
instead of fired conventional bricks.
• Eco friendly.
• Benefit of reducing the energy used in
manufacturing & increases strength &
decreases shrinkage.

15. FLYASH BRICKS

16. PLYWOOD FROM BAGASSE

17. BAMBOO AS
REINFORCEMENT

18. Eco-friendly
Material Technique
RAT TRAP BOND

19. REDUCES POLLUTION
 Air Pollution-
Use of
materials with low VOC
emissions e.g. Cement
Paints
 Water
Pollution –
Materials that prevent
leaching.
Land Pollution- Materials
that reuse waste that
would otherwise have
resulted in landfill. e.g.
Flyash Bricks.

20. PERFORMANCE

21. ENERGY CONSERVATION

22. BIODEGRADABLE

23. CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS
• Ferro-cement boards for door and window shutters
• Ferro-cement Roofing Channels
• Fly-ash Sand Lime Bricks and Paver Blocks
• Gypsum Board, Tiles, Plaster, Blocks, gypsum plaster
fibre jute/sisal and glass fibre composites
• Laminated Wood Plastic Components
• Marble Mosaic Tiles
• MDF Boards and Mouldings
• Micro Concrete Roofing Tiles
• Partical Boards
• Polymerised water proof compound

24. • Bamboo, Bamboo Based Partcle Board & Ply Board, Bamboo
Matting
• Bricks sun dried
• Precast cement concrete blocks, lintels, slab. Structural and non-
structural modular elements
• Calcined Phospho Gypsum Wall Panels
• Calcium silicate boards and Tiles
• Cellular Light Weight Concrete Blocks
• Cement Paint
• Clay roofing tiles
• Water, polyurethane and acrylic based chemical admixtures for
corrosion removal, rust prevention, water proofing
• Epoxy Resin System, Flooring, sealants, adhesives and admixtures

25. • Polymerised water proof compound
• Portland Pozzolana Cement Flyash / Calcined
Clay Based
• Portland Slag Cement
• RCC Door Frames
• Ready Mix Cement Concrete
• Rubber Wood Finger Joint Board
• Stone dust
• Water proof compound, adhesive, Polymer,
Powder