Abstract

The relative question to the first uses of the concrete as a material of construction in the domain of building in Algeria, and especially in the city of Tlemcen, is the heart of the work that we intend to publish. The objective of this research is to illustrate the history of the evolution of the use of material concrete in the domain of construction in the city of Tlemcen. The applied methodology is to collect all information relative to the projects of construction made on concrete in the period spanning from 1892 to 2005 from the archives of the township of Tlemcen, and therefore, reach a bank of data that gathers all information referring to every project of construction in concrete, whose exploitation drove us to distinguish five periods where the processes of construction knew a certain number of evolutions, notably in relation to the historicity of the use of the material concrete. Moreover, inserting this bank of data in a card which situates the city of Tlemcen and while appropriating an adequate software to it, we were able to reach all information concerning the date of the project, society of realization, the materials of construction and processes, graphic documentation, etc. 

Key words: Archives, concrete, card, history, Tlemcen.