2. WHAT IS BUILDING ?
The building is a kind of structure which is built with
materials and including with foundation, plinth, walls,
floors, roofs, chimneys, plumbing, and building services,
fixed platforms, veranda, balcony, cornice or projection,
part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall
enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space and signs
and outdoor display structures. For example, houses,
factories, shopping malls, hospitals, etc.
A building aims to give shelter along with security. Other
purposes such as buildings serve several needs of society
primarily as shelter from the weather, security, living space,
privacy, to store belongings, supplied electricity, and to
comfortably live and work.
3. TYPES OF BUILDINGS
1.Residential Building:
A-1: lodging or rooming house.
A-2: One- or two-family private occupancy.
A-3: Hall.
A-4: Apartment House (flat).
A-5: Hotel.
2. Educational Building :
school, college or day-care purposes including an
assembly for education
3.Institutional Building:
B-1: Hospital.
B-2: Custodial Institute.
B-3: Penal and mental Institute.
Residential Buildings:
Educational Building
Institutional Building
4. 4.Assembly Building:
Assembly hall, exhibition hall, museum, skating rink,
gymnasium, restaurant
5.Business Buildings:
C-1: For offices, banks, professional establishments such as offices of architects, engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
C-2: For Laboratories, Research establishments and Testing houses.
C-3: For computer installation
6.Mercantile Buildings:
D-1: For shops, stores, markets with an area up to 500
meters. ‘
D-2: For underground shopping center, contingency
services for more than 500m area departmental stores
and storage.
5. 7.Industrial Building:
Assembly plants, laboratories, dry cleaning plants, power
plants, pumping station, smokehouse, laundry, gas plant,
refinery: dairies and sawmills.
G-1: These buildings are used for less hazardous
industries
G-2: These buildings are used for medium-risk industries
G-3: These buildings are used for high-risk industries.
8.Storage Building:
Warehouses, cold storage, freight depots, transit sheds,
storehouses, trucks, and marine terminals, garages,
hangars (other than aircraft repair hangars), grain
elevators, barns and stables
9.Dangerous Buildings:
Handling, manufacture, or processing products that
contain highly corrosive, toxic, or toxic alkalis, acids or
other liquids or chemicals that produce flame, fumes, and
explosives, toxic, irritant, or corrosive gases and for
storage, handling, or processing.
Warehouses
plants
Dangerous Buildings
