Type of Buildings

Type of Buildings

Residential buildings: All those buildings in which sleeping accommodation is provided for residing permanently or temporary with or without looking or dinning or both facilities are termed as residential building. Ex: Apartments, Flats, Bungalows, Dormitories, private houses, Hotels, Hostels, Cottages, Hole day camps, clubs, hotels, Inns etc.

Educational buildings: All those buildings which are meant for education from nursery to university are included in this group Ex: schools, colleges, universities, training institutes etc.

Institutional Buildings: This group includes any building or part thereof, which is used for the purposes such as medical, health, recovering health after illness, physical or mental diseases, care of infants or aged persons, panel detention etc. These buildings normally provide sleeping accommodation for the occupants.

Assembly Buildings: This group includes any building or part or a building where groups of people assemble or gather for amusement; recreation, social, religious, patriotic or similar purpose for example museums, gymnasiums, restaurants, places of worship, passenger stations, public transportation services, open air theatres, swimming pools etc.

Business Buildings: This group includes any building or part or a building which is used for purposes such as transaction of business, keeping of accounts and records etc; dispensaries and clinics, banks, city halls, court halls, libraries etc.

Mercantile Buildings: This group includes any building or part of a building which is used for shops, stores, market, for safe and display of products or waves either whole sale or retail.

Industrial Buildings: This group includes any building or part of a building or structure in which product of different kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed. For example, laboratories, assembly plants, laundries, gas plants, power plants, refineries, diaries etc.

Storage Building: This group includes those building structures which are primarily used for the storage structures which are primarily used for the storage or sheltering of goods, waves or merchandise vehicles or animals, for example warehouses, cold storages, freight depots, store houses, transit sheds, truck terminals, garages etc.

Hazardous Building: This group includes those building structures which are used for the storage, handling, manufacture or processing of materials which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and prove hazards to health; building or building contents. Hazards may be due to fire; poisonous fumes or gases, explosions, ignitions etc from materials subjected to various operations. Buildings used for storage of gases under high pressure or for storage and handling of highly flammable liquids or explosives, fireworks etc are included in this group.