DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUILDINGS

A building is a man made structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place such as house or factory. Buildings are classified in to two categories-

(A). Based on Occupancy

(B). Based on types of Construction 

A. CLASSIFICATION BASED ON OCCUPANCY
1. Residential Buildings
2. Industrial Buildings
3. Educational Buildings
4. Institutional Buildings
5. assembly Buildings
6. Business Buildings
7. Mercantile Buildings
8. Storage Buildings
9. Hazardous Buildings

B. CLASSIFICATION BASED ON STRUCTURES
1. Framed Structure
2. Load Bearing Structure

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

Buildings in which sleeping arrangement are provided with or without cooking arrangement. It includes single or multi family dwelling, apartments, lodgings, restaurant, hostels, dormitories and hotels.

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS

These are buildings where products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled, manufactured or processed. 

EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS

These includes any buildings used for schools, colleges, education purposes.

INSTITUTIONAL BUILDINGS

These buildings used for different purposes such as medical or other treatment. They includes hospitals, sanatorium, jails, asylum.

ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS

These are the buildings where group of peoples meet or gather for amusement, social, religious, political, civil travel and similar purposes. E.g. theaters, motion pictures, house, assembly halls, restaurants assembly halls.

BUSINESS BUILDINGS

These buildings are used for transactions of business, for keeping accounts and for similar other purpose.

MERCANTILE BUILDINGS

These buildings are used as shops, stores, market for display and sale of merchandise either wholesale or retail, office, shops, storage services.

STORAGE BUILDINGS

These buildings are used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or merchandise, vehicles and animals, grains.

HAZARDOUS BUILDINGS

These buildings are used for the storage, handling, manufacturing or processing of highly combustible or explosive materials or products.

FRAMED STRUCTURE

Reinforced cement concrete structures the most common type of construction today. They consist of a skeleton of beams and columns. The load is transferred from from beams to the columns and column intern transfer the load directly to the sub soil through footing. Framed structures are suitable for multistory building subjected to variety of extreme loads like compressive, tensile torsion, shear along with moment. The open space in the skeleton are to be filled with brick walls or glass panels.

LOAD BEARING STRUCTURE

In this type of structures loads from roof slab or trusses and floors are transmitted through walls to the firm soil below the ground. This types of structures are adopted where hard strata are available at shallow depth. The structural elements like beams, slabs rest directly on the walls.