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Review

A Review of the Application of Synthetic and Natural Polymers as Construction and Building Materials for Achieving Sustainable Construction

by
Jolanta Tamošaitienė
1,
Shokoh Parham
2,*,
Hadi Sarvari
3,4,*,
Daniel W. M. Chan
3 and
David J. Edwards
4,5
1
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio Al. 11, 10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
2
Centre for Sustainable Nanomaterials, Ibnu Sina Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM Skudai, Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia
3
Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
4
Department of the Built Environment, City Centre Campus, Millennium Point, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B4 7XG, UK
5
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2092, South Africa
*
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Buildings 2024, 14(8), 2569; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14082569
Submission received: 9 May 2024 / Revised: 12 August 2024 / Accepted: 15 August 2024 / Published: 20 August 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sustainable Building Materials)
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With the advancement of human society, more construction and building materials are required to produce sustainable construction. The advancement of polymer materials and their use in building construction has been improved. Compared to inorganic materials, polymer materials offer numerous superior qualities and may also be modified to increase their usefulness. Additionally, although bio-polymeric materials have effectively supplanted many conventional materials in various relevant disciplines, their applications in construction, including building façades and so on, have been quite limited up to now. Nowadays, most architects and engineers find it challenging to choose materials due to the proliferation of new materials and the market availability of various manufacturing techniques. This emphasizes the necessity of adopting a unique scientific strategy for the materials selection process to assist in picking the most suitable materials for the necessary civil application rather than following an obsolete traditional selection path that depends mostly on prior subjective personal experiences. This review article has identified critical concerns, inspired more study, and provided crucial insights into the prospective field of synthetic and natural construction and building polymeric materials towards sustainable construction.
Keywords: sustainable construction; synthetic polymer; natural polymer; construction materials; building materials sustainable construction; synthetic polymer; natural polymer; construction materials; building materials

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Tamošaitienė, J.; Parham, S.; Sarvari, H.; Chan, D.W.M.; Edwards, D.J. A Review of the Application of Synthetic and Natural Polymers as Construction and Building Materials for Achieving Sustainable Construction. Buildings 2024, 14, 2569. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14082569

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Tamošaitienė J, Parham S, Sarvari H, Chan DWM, Edwards DJ. A Review of the Application of Synthetic and Natural Polymers as Construction and Building Materials for Achieving Sustainable Construction. Buildings. 2024; 14(8):2569. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14082569

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Tamošaitienė, Jolanta, Shokoh Parham, Hadi Sarvari, Daniel W. M. Chan, and David J. Edwards. 2024. "A Review of the Application of Synthetic and Natural Polymers as Construction and Building Materials for Achieving Sustainable Construction" Buildings 14, no. 8: 2569. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14082569

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Tamošaitienė, J., Parham, S., Sarvari, H., Chan, D. W. M., & Edwards, D. J. (2024). A Review of the Application of Synthetic and Natural Polymers as Construction and Building Materials for Achieving Sustainable Construction. Buildings, 14(8), 2569. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14082569

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