2. Educational Buildings.
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B – Educational Buildings: All those buildings which are meant for
education from a nursery (or primary school) to the university are
included in this group, for example, schools, colleges, Universities,
Training Institutes, etc. These buildings provide facilities like
class – rooms, staff cabins, drawing rooms, laboratories,
administrative blocks, assembly halls for instructions or education,
or recreation, library, playfields, gymnasium etc.
3 . Institutional Buildings.
Group C – 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 disease, care of infants or aged persons, panel detention, etc. These buildings normally provide sleeping accommodation for the occupants. These buildings are further subdivided into three groups: Hospitals and sanatoria; Custodian Institutions; and Panel Institutions.
4. Assembly Buildings.
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roup
D – Assembly Buildings: This group includes any building or part of
a building where groups of people assemble or gather for amusement,
recreation, social, religious, patriotic or similar purpose, for
example theatres, cinema halls, assembly halls, auditoria, exhibition
halls, museums, gymnasiums, restaurants, places of worship (temple,
mosque, church, etc.), dance halls, club rooms, passenger stations,
public transportation services. Open air theatres, sports pavilions
(i.e., stadia), swimming pools, etc.
5. Business buildings.
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roup
E – Business buildings are considered as including all
buildings and structures used for or adapted to the transaction of
business, the operation of machinery, the manufacture or storage
of machinery or materials, the housing of livestock, or for
any other industrial purpose. This class includes such buildings
as factories, office buildings, restaurants, warehouses, workshops
and power plants.
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Mercantile Buildings.
Group F – Mercantile Buildings: This group includes any building or part of a building which is used as shops, stores, market for sale and display of products or wares either wholesale or retail.
7. Industrial Buildings.
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roup
G – Industrial
Buildings:
This group includes any building or part of building or structure in
which products of different kinds and properties, are fabricated,
assembled or processed. For example, laboratories, assembly plants,
laundries, gas plants, power plants, refineries, diaries, etc.
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Storage
Buildings.
Group H – Storage Buildings: This group includes those building structures which are primarily used for storage or sheltering of goods, wares, merchandise (not highly combustible), vehicles or animals, for example, ware houses, cold storages, freight depots, store houses, transit sheds, truck terminals, garages, etc.
4. Read the text again and find out if the following statements are true or false.
A terrace unit is a row of one dwelling unit in continuity.
Institutional Buildings: This group includes any building or part thereof, which is used for the purposes such as amusement, recreation, social, religious, patriotic or similar.
Mercantile Buildings: This group includes any building or part of a building which is used as shops, stores, market for sale.
Storage Buildings includes wares, merchandise, vehicles or animals, for example, ware houses.
Business buildings are meant for education from a nursery (or primary school) to the university are included in this group.