1) Residential buildings:
All those buildings in which sleeping accommodation is provided for
residing permanently or temporary with or without looking or
dinning or both facilities are termed as residential building
Ex: Apartments, Flats, Bungalows, Dormitories, private houses,
Hotels, Hostels, Cottages, Hole day camps, clubs, hotels, Inns etc
These buildings are further subdivided into 5 groups
A1 - Lodging Houses
A2 - Family Private Dwellings
A3 - Dormitories
A4 - Flats
A5 - Hotels
2) Educational buildings:
All those buildings which are meant for education from nursery to
university are included in this group
Ex: schools, colleges, universities, training institutes etc.
4) Assembly Buildings:
3) Institutional Buildings:
This group includes any building or part thereof, which is used for
the purposes such as medical, health, recovering health after illness, physical or mental diseases, care of infants or aged persons, panel
detention etc. These buildings normally provide sleeping
accommodation for the occupants.
This group includes any building or part or a building where groups
of people assemble or gather for amusement; recreation, social,
religious, patriotic or similar purpose for example theatres, cinema
halls, museums, gymnasiums, restaurants, places of worship, dance
halls, club rooms, passenger stations, public transportation services,
open air theatres, swimming pools etc.
5) Business Buildings:
This group includes any building or part or a building which is used
for purposes such as transaction of business, keeping of accounts and
records etc; dispensaries and clinics, banks, city halls, court halls,
libraries etc.
6) Mercantile Buildings:
This group includes any building or part of a building which is used
for shops, stores, market, for safe and display of products or waves
either whole sale or retail.
7) Industrial Buildings:
This group includes any building or part of a building or structure in
which product of different kinds and properties are fabricated,
assembled or processed. For example, laboratories, assembly plants,
laundries, gas plants, power plants, refineries, diaries etc.
8) Storage Building:
This group includes those building structures which are primarily
used for the storage structures which are primarily used for the
storage or sheltering of goods, waves or merchandise vehicles or
animals, for example warehouses, cold storages, freight depots, store
houses, transit sheds, truck terminals, garages etc.
9) Hazardous Building:
This group includes those building structures which are used for the
storage, handling, manufacture or processing of materials which are
liable to burn with extreme rapidity and prove hazards to health;
building or building contents. Hazards may be due to fire; poisonous
fumes or gases, explosions, ignitions etc from materials subjected to
various operations. Buildings used for storage of gases under high
pressure or for storage and handling of highly flammable liquids or
explosives, fireworks etc are included in this group.
