Construction material is any material which is used for a construction purpose.

Just about every type of available material has been used at one time or another for creating various human and animal homes, structures, and technologies.

Living spaces and their related structures have been created using myriad materials, from mud to metal, and from plastic to grass.

Today the production and assembly of various construction materials is a multibillion dollar industry, and environmental concern has recently surfaced about the effects of such a massive resource extraction on a global scale.

Mud, rocks, and small plants are used as the most basic construction materials, aside from tents made of flexible materials such as cloth or leather.

People all over the world have used these three materials together to create homes to suit their local weather conditions. In general stone and brush are used as basic structural components in these buildings, while mud is used to fill in the space between acting as a type of concrete and insulation.

Some examples are the wattle and daub mostly used as permanent housing in tropical countries or as summer structures by ancient northern peoples.