• Pankti C Mehta
• Saloni N Shah
• Jash S Dalal
• Qureshi Mohammad Naved

An eco-friendly material can be described as product that has been designed to do least possible damage to the environment. These kind of building materials are those that guarantee adequate service and durability, with minimal maintenance, minimizing the extraction of raw materials and energy consumed by production and use and which have the greatest potential for reuse or resource recovery. Straw is a natural by-product of rice husk, which is usually burned or disposed off. Instead of burning the straw, using it as a building material will be a revolutionary design. Adobe is one of the oldest building materials used and found in abundance everywhere with affordable and reasonable cost. Adobe, composing soil and straw mixed together, proves to be the best eco-friendly and sustainable material in the field of construction. The easy manufacturing of the resultant products like Adobe brick, Straw Bale, Earthen Plaster, etc. made out of straw can be adopted as a better alternative for the other unsustainable building materials. This project report analyses how straw and straw materials pass the various parameter when compared to the standard sized Burnt Clay Brick. This was conducted by executing various test like compression test & thermal insulation test. The various parameters like weight, strength, manufacturing process, cost, etc. were collated by performing respective activities. The analyses reveals that the perfectly prepared Adobe brick, proves to be light in weight, cost effective and an excellent thermal insulator which can be a best opted material for Low-cost housing. Past few years we have observed a rapid growth in construction field leading to the extensive use of our natural resources (stones, sand, minerals, etc.) From past decade the need for the hour in our country is affordable housing for the masses. Thus, the usage of eco-friendly materials contributing to the affordable housing sector is necessary for the people and also beneficial for the environment. Environmentally-friendly building materials are those that provide appropriate service and life span, with minimum maintenance. While minimizing the extraction of raw materials and energy consumed by manufacturing and use. The construction industry is responsible for the issuance of various contaminants in the environment; the production of building materials usually results in significant negative environmental impacts. Eventually, the building sector is one area that could greatly help reduce the effects of human development on the environment if standards and regulations promoting sustainable development were imposed on large construction companies. Indeed, buildings have a big share of the energy consumption, thus they have a significant impact not only on the environment and but also on the natural sources.

Eco-friendly material, sustainable development, Straw Bale, Environmental-friendly, Low-cost Housing.

"ECO-FRIENDLY BUILDING MATERIAL FOR LOW-COST HOUSING: ADOBE BRICKS USING STRAW BALE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no.f564-f565, March-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203570.pdf

"ECO-FRIENDLY BUILDING MATERIAL FOR LOW-COST HOUSING: ADOBE BRICKS USING STRAW BALE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no. ppf564-f565, March-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203570.pdf