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The use of construction materials in the Peruvian highland region is determined by local consumption without taking into account their ecological characteristics, and the commercialization of these materials is leading to the improper use of processed materials; which means that the houses built do not respond to the environmental needs required by the users. The object of the present work is to evaluate the characteristics of the materials used in the construction of houses and the possibility of using ecological materials typical of the region, considering the theories of sustainability applied to the processes of construction and use of housing as a space healthy for the benefit of the people who occupy them. To this end, work has been done on the analysis of the materials used, specifically with two types of housing, adobe housing, and brick housing, located in circunlacustre and high-Andean zones, respectively; identifying its characteristics referring to the main objectives of sustainable architecture and the proportional amount used in the construction of each house, we determine the level of sustainability of the materials used, through a Leopold Matrix, achieving a referential level of 2.99 non-optimal, which on a scale of 0 to 5, means between low and medium, mainly due to the use of processed materials offered by the construction market and the lack of knowledge of their qualities; these results allow us to affirm that the materials used in the construction of a house in the Peruvian high plateau are mostly processed materials and do not allow to give sustainability to the house, having to generate a set of technical recommendations in the processes of material selection, construction and use to achieve sustainability.