BUILDINGS AND THEIR TYPES
Building simply indicates anything that is
built with wall and a roof. The term building in civil engineering palace is
used to mean a structure having various components like foundation, walls,
column, floors, roofs doors, windows, ventilators, stairs, lifts, various types
of surface finishes, etc Normally all buildings are constructed according to
drawing and specifications prepared by architects.
Types of buildings
Depending upon the character of occupancy
or the type of use, different types of buildings have been classified in
following groups as,
1. Residential building
These are those buildings for normal residential purpose, with or
without cooking or dining or both
in which sleeping accommodation is provided
For example: Apartment houses, hotels, dwellings, etc.
Educational
building
These include any building used for school,
college, or day-care purposes more than 8 hours
per week involving assembly for
instruction, education or recreation.
Institutional building
These include any building or part thereof,
which is used for purposes like medical or other treatment or care of persons
suffering from physical or mental illness, diseases Nursing home, mental
hospital, jails, etc.
Assembly building
These include any buildings where group of
people gather for amusement, recreation, religious, social, travel and similar
purposes. For example; Exhibition halls, museums, skating rings, restaurants,
gymnasiums, etc.
Business
building
Any building or part of a building which is used for the transaction of business, for the keeping of accounts and records and similar purposes. For example; Banks, offices, shops, stores, markets, etc.
Mercantile
building
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
Any building or part of building in which
products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled or
processed. For example; Plants, smoke houses, gas plants, refineries, saw
mills, etc.
Storage
buildings
Any building or part of a building which
primarily used for the storage or merchandise like warehouses, cold storages, sheltering
of goods, wares or grain elevators, bars and stables, etc.
Hazardous
buildings
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.
