文中简要地介绍了国外塑料建材的发展概况。我国塑料建材的现状和塑料建材的社会经济效益、塑料作为一种新型建筑材料,由于其原料来源丰富、综合性能优良、易加工成型,因此用来代替传统的建筑材料.对提高建筑物的装饰性能、缩短施工周期、减轻劳动强度、减少能耗等方面.均具有较大的意义.近年来,塑料已迅速地进入了建筑材料的应用领域.与钢材、木材、水泥并列为四大建筑材料,并获得了广泛的应用. The article briefly introduced the development of foreign plastic building materials. The status quo of China’s plastic building materials and the social and economic benefits of plastic building materials, plastic as a new type of building materials, because of its rich source of raw materials, excellent comprehensive performance, easy processing and molding, it is used to replace traditional building materials. To improve the decoration of buildings Performance, shortening the construction period, reducing labor intensity, and reducing energy consumption are all of great significance. In recent years, plastics have rapidly entered the application field of building materials. They are listed as four major building materials along with steel, wood and cement. , and has been widely used.