Two types of buildings are
- Based upon occupancy
- Based on structure
Based upon occupancy
- Residential building
- Educational building
- Institutional building
- Assembly building
- Business building
- Mercantile building
- Industrial building
- Storage building
Based on structure
Load bearing structure
- It has load bearing walls which receive the loads and transmit the same to the ground though their foundation.
- 20, 30, 40cm thick walls are load bearing walls.
- R.C.C slab is provided directly on load bearing walls.
Framed structure
- In the buildings with framed structure, load is transferred through a frame of R.C.C slab, beam & column.
- In this type of structures, there are partition walls of 10 cm thick, which divide and enclose the space.
- Construction time is less.