1 Types of Buildings

Group A.
Residential building
Group B. Educational Buildings
Group C. Institutional Buildings
Group D. Assembly Buildings
Group E. Business Buildings
Group F. Mercantile Buildings
Group G. Industrial Buildings
Group H. Storage Building
Group I. Hazardous Buildings
These shall include any building in which
sleeping accommodation is provided for
normal residential purposes, with or without
cooking or dining or both facilities, except any
building classified under Group C.
Residential types of building are further sub
divided as per following
A-1 Lodging or rooming houses
A-2 One-or two-family private dwellings
A-3 Dormitories
A-4 Apartment houses (flats)
A-5 Hotels
These shall include any building used for
school, college or day-care purposes involving
assembly for instruction, education.
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, disease or infirmity; care of infants,
convalescents or aged persons and for penal or
correctional detention in which the liberty of the
inmates is restricted. Institutional buildings ordinarily
provide sleeping accommodation for the occupants.
Institutional types of building are further sub divided
as per following
C-1 Hospitals and sanatoria
C-2 Custodial institutions
C-3 Penal and mental institutions
These shall include any building or part of a
building, where groups of people congregate or
gather for amusement, recreation, social,
religious, patriotic, civil, travel and similar
purposes, for example, theaters, motion picture
houses, assembly halls, auditoria, exhibition
halls, museums, skating rinks, gymnasiums,
restaurants, places of worship, dance halls, club
rooms, passenger stations and terminals of air,
surface and marine
Assembly types of building are further sub divided
as per following
D-1 Buildings having a theatrical stage and fixed
seats for over 1000 persons
D-2 Buildings having a theatrical stage and fixed
seats for less than 1000 persons
D-3 Buildings without a stage having
accommodation for 300 or more persons but no
permanent seating arrangement
D-4 Buildings without a stage having
accommodation for less than 300 persons
D-5 All other structures designed for assembly
of people not covered by subdivisions D-1 -to
D-4
These shall include any building or part of a building
which is used for transaction of business for keeping
of accounts and records and similar purposes,
professional establishments, service facilities, etc.
City halls, town halls, court houses and libraries shall
be classified in this group so far as the principal
function of these is transaction of public business
and keeping of books and records
Business types of building are further sub divided as
per following
E-1 Offices, banks, professional establishments, like
offices of architects,engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
E-2 Laboratories, research establishments and test
houses.
E-3 Computer installations.
building, which is used as shops, stores, market,
for display and sale of merchandise, either
holesale or retail.
Mercantile types of building are further sub
divided as per following
F-1 Shops, stores, markets with area up to 500
m.
F-2 Underground shopping centres,
departmental stores with area more than 500 m2
Storage and service facilities incidental to the
sale of merchandise and located in the same
building shall be included under this group.
or structure, in which products or materials of all
kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled,
manufactured or processed, for example, assembly
plants, laboratories, dry cleaning plants, power
plants, pumping stations, smoke houses, laundries,
gas plants, refineries: dairies and saw-mills.
Industrial types of building are further sub divided as
per following
G-1 Buildings used for low hazard industries
G-2 Buildings used for moderate hazard industries
G-3 Buildings used for high hazard industries.
building, used primarily for the storage or
sheltering (including servicing, processing or
repairs incidental to storage) of goods, wares or
merchandise (except those that involve highly
combustible or explosive products or materials),
vehicles or animals, for example,
warehouses, cold storage, freight depots,transit
sheds, storehouses, truck and marine terminals,
garages, hangars (other than aircraft repair
hangars), grain elevators, barns and stables.
which is used for the storage, handling, manufacture
or processing of highly combustible or 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 alkalis, acids or
other liquids or chemicals producing flame, fumes
and explosive, poisonous, irritant or corrosive gases;
and for the storage, handling or processing.of any
material producing explosive mixtures of dust which
result in the division of matter into tine particles
subject to spontaneous ignition.

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