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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsOld and Modern Construction Materials In Yemen: The Effect In Building Construction In Sana’aISSA A.M. Al_Kahtani, Suhaib Y.K. Al-DarziSana’a city in Yemen is one of the oldest cities in the worlds, which has different forms of building built with different types of materials. In the present work, the old and new forms of building construction and the building materials used in Sana’a, the sources available for the new material, the effects of new material usage on building forms … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2007 · 9,296 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Comparative Study of the Thermal Comfort of Different Building Materials in Sana’aMousa Ahmed Alhaddad, Zhou Tie JunThis study describes the impact of alternative building material envelope systems on the overall thermal performance of four selected materials used in Sana’a, Yemen. These systems included adobe, brick, stone and concrete block. After thorough on-site investigation and data collection, the information, along with regional weather data were input into the Ecotect energy simulation software for thermal performance evaluation. The … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 25 Jan 2013 · 8,575 accessesView PDF Cite