Building:
A building can be defined as a structure broadly consisting of walls, floors and roofs, erected to provide covered space for different uses such as residence, education, business, manufacturing, storage, hospitalization, entertainment, worship etc.
TYPES OF BUILDINGS
Depending upon the character of occupancy or the type of use, different type of buildings have been classified in following group as per national building code:
1. Residential Buildings: These shall include one or two private dwelling, apartment houses (flats), dormitories, hotels etc.
2.Educational Buildings: These shall include any building used for school, college or day-care purposes involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation.
3.Institutional Building:. These shall include any building or part thereof which is used for purposes such as medical or other treatment or care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness or disease, care of infants, convalescents of aged persons and for penal or detention in which the liberty of the immates is restricted. Institutional building ordinarily provide sleeping accommodation for the occupants. It includes hospitals, sanatoria, nursing homes, orphanages, jails, prisons, mental hospital, reformatories etc.
4.Assembly Buildings: These shall include any building or part of a building where group of people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious periodic, civil, travel and similar purposes ,for example, theatres, motion picture houses, gymnasiums, restaurants, places of worship, dance halls, club rooms, passenger stations and terminals of air, surface, marine and public transportation services.
5.Business Buildings: These shall include any building or part of a building which is used for transaction of business, for the keeping of accounts and records for similar purposes, city halls, town halls, court houses, libraries shall be classified in this group in so far as principal function of these is transaction of public business and the keeping of books and records.
6.Mercantile Buildings: These shall include any building or part of a building which is used as shops, stores, market , for display and sale of merchandise either wholes or retail.
7.Industrial Buidings:These shall include any building or part of a building or structure, in which products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or processed, for example, refineries, gas plants ,mils, dairies, Industries etc.
8. Storage Buildings: These shall include any building or part of a building primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or merchandise, like warehouses, cold storages, freight deptt, transit sheds. garages, hangers, grain elevators, stables etc.
9.Hazardous Buildings: These shall include any building or part of building or part of building which is used for the storage,handling, manufacture or processing of highly combustible explosive materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and /or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosions, for storage, handling manufacturing or processing which involve highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalies, acid or other liquids or chemicals producing flame, fumes and explosive, etc.
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