In construction, chicken wire or hardware cloth is used as a metal lath to hold cement or plaster, a process known as stuccoing.
Concrete reinforced with chicken wire or hardware cloth yields ferrocement, a versatile construction material.
The installation of these systems caused a countrywide shortage of chicken wire in the United Kingdom.
In photonics, the chicken-wire effect is a predominant pattern of low transmission lines between multifiber bundles in a fiberoptic used to couple the intensifier tube to the CCD sensor.
Chicken wire commonly used in construction has been found to block or attenuate Wi-Fi, cellular and other radio frequency transmissions by inadvertently creating a Faraday cage.