Construction Materials
The cost of most local government assets is heavily dependent on the cost of materials used to construct those assets. Hopefully new twenty first century construction materials will extend the useful lives of assets and reduce the cost of replacing and renewing them.
Traditional Construction Materials
- Aggregate
- Asphalt
- Bitumen
- Bluestone
- Brick
- Concrete
- Crushed Rock (Wikipedia)
- Crusher Dust
- Ductile Iron (Wikipedia)
- Fibre Reinforced Concrete
- Glass
- Gravel
- PVC
- Recycled Aggregate
- Reinforced Concrete (Wikipedia)
- Shotcrete
- Steel
- Timber
New Construction Materials
- Artificial Sandstone / Biocement
- Bioconcrete
- Concrete Canvas
- Flash Bainite
- Glassphalt
- Polymer Resin Concrete
Possible Future Construction Materials
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Synthetic Diamond (Wikipedia)
- Graphene (WIkipedia)
- Metallic Glass
- Nanocellulose (Wikipedia)
- Graphene-Metal Composites
Related Pages
External Links & References
- Wikipedia
- How Supercomputers Will Yield a Golden Age of Materials Science (Scientific American)
- Google Search