Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Classification of Building

■ According to the use or occupancy, buildings are classified into 9 major groups and their subdivisions as Follows.

★ 1 Residential Buildings
A-1 Lodging or rooming houses.
A-2 One or two family dwellings.
A-3 Dormitories.
A4 Apartment houses (flats).
A-5 Hotels.

★ 2 Educational Buildings
Any building used for college, school or day care purposes involving assembly for instruction, education or recreation related to the occupancy.

★3 Institutional Buildings
C-1 Hospitals and sanatoria.
C-2 Custodial Institutions (Homes for the aged, orphanages etc.).
C3 Penal and mental institutions (prisons, mental hospitals etc.).

★4 Assembly Buildings
D-1 Theatres with fixed seats for more than 1000 persons.
D-2 Theatres with fixed seats for less than 1000 persons.
D-3 Halis with capacity to hold more than 300 persons but with no permanent seating.
D-4 Halls for less than 300 persons but with no permanent seating.
D-5 Al other assembly buildings not covered in the above.

★ 5 BusinesS Buiiang
E-1 Offices, banks and professional establishments of doctors, lawyers, engineers etc.
E-2 Laboratories and research establishmenis.
E3 Computer installations.

★ 6 Merchantile Buildings
F-1 Shops, stores and markets with area up to 500 sq.m with storage incidental to the sales.
F-2 Underground shoPping centres or departmental stores with area more than 500 sq.m Witn storage and services incidental to the sales.

★ 7 Industrial Building
G-1 Buildings used for low hazard industries.
G-2 Buildings used tOr moderate hazard industries.
G-3 Buildings used tor hnigh hazard industries. (hazard means the possibility of ire, smoke, gas, or explosion endangering the life and
safety of the occupants)

★ 8 Storage Building
Any building primanly used for storage or sheltering of goods, vehicles or animals and witn the presence of relatively small number of persons in proportion to the area. (E.g. warehouses, grain stores, garages, truck terminals, stables etc.).

★ 9 Hazardous Buildings
Buildings used for storage, handling, manufacturing and processing of corrosive, toxic, inflammable, explosive or noxious materials.




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