TYPES OF BUILDINGS

TYPES OF BUILDINGS

we can see different building around us, depending upon the type of use and occupancy of it the buildings have been classified into following groups as per NATIONAL BUILDING CODE.

After this article, you will be able to differentiate between different types of buildings and its uses

·       Residential Buildings

·       Educational Buildings

·       Institutional Buildings

·       Business Buildings

·       Assembly buildings

·       Mercantile Buildings

·       Industrial Buildings

·       Storage Buildings

·       Hazardous Buildings

Residential Buildings:

These shall include one or two private dwellings, apartment houses (flats), dormitories, hotels etc.

Educational Buildings: These shall include any building used for school, college or day-care purposes involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation.

 Institutional Buildings: 

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. It includes hospitals, sanatoria, nursing homes, orphanages, jails, prisons, mental hospitals, reformatories etc.

Assembly Buildings: 

These include any building or part of a building that gathers or gathers people for entertainment, recreation, social, religious, periodical, civil, travel and similar purposes.

These include theatres, motion picture houses, assembly halls, exhibition halls, museums, skating rings, gymnasiums, auditoria, restaurants, places of worship, dance halls, club rooms, passenger stations, and terminals of air, surface, marine and public transportation services.

   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, courthouses, 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.

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 wholesale or retail.

Industrial Buildings:

 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, mills, dairies etc.

 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, transit sheds, stables etc.

 Hazardous Buildings: 

These shall include any 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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