Viability of Building Materials Made of Wood Waste: Sustainability and Its Performances

Abstract

Where wood waste (WW) management is a big challenge for proper utilization towards sustainable applications, numerous numbers of attempts are made to solve the problem. Different forms of WW have been utilized for various important purposes like sound resistance, fire retardant, insulating material, and strength enhancing material including various fancy and decorative applications. The present chapter summarizes the possibilities of designing viable building materials in modern society. Out of sundry kinds of applications of WW, the performance in making building material has taken special interest by researchers. Various types of WW and their sustainable applications are schematically established for better understanding of readers. WW is used as a special additive in the preparation of concrete to enable construction. It is noticed that WW containing concrete has been used as a potential material in wall panelling, making of stoneware tiles, designing of CO2 sink, etc. Thermal insulators and electrical insulating materials prepared from WW are useful in making of sustainable building materials. The importance and advantage of WW are analysed for manufacturing of sustainable and green building materials. Further, importance of WW in designing of acoustic platform for resistance of echo of sound in different halls, studios, and other gathering in close rooms has also been discussed. The present chapter reveals new ideas regarding making of various sustainable building materials from WW, for which the present article is a solution to the challenges in WW management.