“…However, doors and windows are not included in these calculations. The chemical composition of building materials under consideration, Table1, that was used in our previous study (Sharaf and Hamideen, 2013), was taken from the literature for limestone (Mann et al, 2012), ordinary concrete (Bashter, 1997;Sing et al, 2004), bricks and cement plaster (Ahmad et al, 1998;CMSI, 2002).…”