GROUP-A
RESIDENSIAL BUILDINGS
GROUP-B
EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS
GROUP-C
INSTITUTIONAL BULIDINGS
GROUP-D
ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS
GROUP-E
BUSINESS BUILDINGS
GROUP-F
MERCANTILE BUILDINGS
GROUP-G
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS
GROUP-H
STORAGE BUILDINGS
GROUP-I
HAZARDOUS BUILDINGS
RESIDENTIAL
BUILDINGS
These building include any building in which
sleeping accommodation provide for normal residential purposes, with or without
cooking and dining facilities. It includes single or multifamily dwellings,
apartment houses, lodgings or rooming houses, restaurants, hostels, dormitories
and residential hostels.
EDUCATIONAL
BUILDINGS
These
include any building used for school, college or day-care purposes involving
assembly for instruction, education or recreation and which is not covered by
assembly buildings.
INSTITUTIONAL
BUILDINGS
These buildings are used for different
purposes, such as medical or other treatment or care of persons suffering from
physical or mental illness, diseases or infirmity, care of infants, convalescents
or aged persons and for penal detention in which the liberty of the inmates is restricted.
Institutional buildings ordinarily provide sleeping accommodation for the
occupants.
ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS
These are the buildings where groups of
people meet or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious, assembly
halls, city halls, marriage halls, exhibition halls, museums, places of work
ship, etc.
BUSINESS BUILDINGS
These
buildings are used for transaction of business, for keeping of accounts and
records and for similar purposes, offices, banks, professional establishments,
courts houses, libraries. The principal function of these buildings is
transaction of public business and keeping of books and records.
MERCANTILE BUILDINGS
These buildings are used as shops, stores,
market, for display an sale of merchandise either wholesale or retail, office,
shops, storage service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandised
located in the same building.
INDUSTRIAL
BUILDINGS
These are buildings where products or
materials of all kinds and properties are
fabrication, assembled, manufactured or processed, as assembly plant, laboratories, dry cleaning
plants, power plants, pumping stations, smoke houses, laundries etc.
STORAGE BUILDINGS
These
buildings are used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, animals,
as warehouses, cold storage, garages, trucks.
HAZARDOUS BUILDINGS
These buildings are used for the storage,
handling, and manufacture or processing of highly combustible or explosive
materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidly and/or
which may produce poisonous elements.
for storage handling, acids or other liquids or chemicals producing
flames, fumes and explosive, poisonous, irritant or corrosive gases processing
of any material producing explosive mixtures of dust which result in the
division matter into fine particles subjected to spontaneous ignition.
