The dictionary meaning of building is very simple, it simply indicates anything that is built with walls and a roof. the term building in civil engineering parlance is used mean a structure having various components like foundations, walls, columns, floors, roofs, doors, windows, ventilators, stairs, lifts, various types of surface finishes, etc. as a civil engineer is mainly concerned with the construction of various components of a building.

various types of building

The society requires the building for its various activities and accordingly, the buildings can be grouped for convenience as follows:

1. Assembly building where group of amusement, recreation, religious, social, travels and similar purposes and they include exhibition halls, museums, skating rings, restaurant’s, gymnasiums, etc.
2. Business buildings like banks, offices, shops courts, stores, markets, etc.
3. Educational buildings such as school, collages, libraries, universities, etc.
4. Hazardous buildings which are used for handling, manufacture, storage or processing of highly explosive or combustible materials or products and they include magazines, especially prepared stores, etc.
5. Health building Like hospitals, nursing homes, dispensaries, sanatoriums’, etc.
6. Industrial buildings like factories, workshops, laboratories, sanatoriums, etc.
7. Institutional buildings like home for the aged people, jails, prisons, mental hospitals, reformatories, etc.
8. Recreation buildings like theaters, town halls, cinemas, clubs, hotels, etc.
9. Residential building such as bungalows, flats, row houses, dormitories, etc.
10. Storage buildings such as Godowns, warehouses, cold storages, stables, garages, hangars, transit sheds, etc.
11. Transportation buildings like railway stations, bus stations, air terminals, etc.
12. Worship buildings like temples, churches, mosques, etc.