Adobe (, ; Arabic: الطوب ) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material ( sticks, straw, and / or manure ), which the builders shape into bricks ( using frames ) and dry in the sun.

Thus, a well-planned adobe wall of the appropriate thickness is very effective at controlling inside temperature through the wide daily fluctuations typical of desert climates, a factor which has contributed to its longevity as a building material.

Similarly, the silver used in jewelry and the aluminium used as a structural building material are also alloys.

The building material is tires filled with earth.

The site's stones were much plundered for building material ( for example Mehmed IV took columns to adorn his Yeni Valide Mosque in Istanbul ).

Their colonies create one or more dams to provide still, deep water to protect against predators, and to float food and building material.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

Granite boulders were also taken from the moor and used for stone posts and to a certain extent for building ( such material is known as moorstone ).

Concrete also provides the best resistance of any building material to high winds, hurricanes, tornadoes due to its lateral stiffness that results in minimal horizontal movement.

Lime as building material was used since prehistoric times going as far back as 7000 to 14000 BC.

The most important use of cement is the production of mortar and concrete — the bonding of natural or artificial aggregates to form a strong building material that is durable in the face of normal environmental effects.

To create the desired curve, the shape of a hanging chain of the desired dimensions is transferred to a form which is then used as a guide for the placement of bricks or other building material.

Depending on year, 50 – 53 % accounts for payment to personnel, roughly 14 – 21 % on acquiring new material, 2 – 8 % for larger ships, building projects or infrastructure and about 24 – 27 % on other items, including purchasing of goods, renting, maintenance, services and taxes.

The building material recovered from the demolition of three wings of the Dachau castle was transported to Schleißheim this way.

Reeds were an important local building material, used for baskets and containers, and collected outside the city walls, where the dead or sick were often carried.

It is generally accepted that kites were first developed approximately 2, 800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available: silk fabric for sail material ; fine, high-tensile-strength silk for flying line ; and resilient bamboo for a strong, lightweight framework.

Humans have historically used soil as a material for flood control, irrigation purposes, burial sites, building foundations, and as construction material for buildings.

* Gopher wood, of unclear meaning, is mentioned in the Bible as the building material for Noah's ark

There is some concern that materials sold as granite countertops or as building material may be hazardous to health.

Chalk has also been used as a building material and, once fired, the resultant lime was spread on agricultural land to improve fertility.

MDF, often called " particle board ", is engineered wood fibre glued under heat and pressure to create a building material of superior strength which is resistant to warp.

Since cast iron was becoming cheaper and more plentiful, it also became a major structural material following the building of the innovative Iron Bridge in 1778 by Abraham Darby III.

It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

Our building time was slightly over 400 hours -- but the total cost for the hull with Fiberglas bottom, sink, head and hardware was under $800.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

Captain Chandler saw that it was building up strength.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.