Category Type GF Height

High Rised Building High Rised Building 7.8

Hospitality Hotels 7.8
Hospitals 7.8
Institutional Colleges 3.5
University 3.5
Resedential School 3.5
Government Buldings Offices 7.8
Resedential 3.5
Defence Defence 3.5
Commercial Industrial 3.5
SME 3.5
Retails 3.5

Chennai
Ordinary building Only 2 floors
Special building < 15.25
Multistored Building 15.25 - 60 m

Banglore
High Rised Building > 24 m

Hyderabad
Hight Rised Building > 18 m
Non - High Rised Building < 18 m http://www.hindu.com/pp/2007/09/08/storie

Delhi
Residential Building

Educational building

Institutional Buildings

Assembly Buildings

Business Buildings
Mercantile Buildings
Industrial Buildings
Storage Buildings
Avg Floor Height
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.9
3.1
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
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These shall include any building inwhich sleeping accommo­dation is provided for normal residential purposes with o
These shall include any building used for school, college or day­care purposes for more than 8 hours per week
involving assembly for instruction, educa­tion or recreation.

These shall include any building or part thereof which is used for purposes such as medical or other treatment or
care of persons suffering from physical or mental illness, disease or infirmity, care of infants, convalescents or
aged persons and for penal or correctional detention in which the liberty of the inmates is restricted. Institutional
buildings ordinarily provide sleeping accommodation for the occupants. It includes hospi­tals, sanatoria, custodial
institutions and penal institutions like jails, prisons, mental hospi­tals, reformatories.
These shall include any building or part of a building where group of people congregate or gather for amusement,
recreation social, religious, patriotic civil, travel and similar purposes; for example theatres, motion picture
houses, assembly halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, skating rinks, gymnasium, restaurants, places of
worship, datlCe halls, club rooms, passenger stations, and terminals of air surface and other public transportation
services, recreation piers and stadia.
These shall include any building or part of a building which is used for transaction of business for the keeping of
accounts and records for similar pur­poses, doctors' service facilities, barber shops, city halls, town halls, court
houses, libraries shall be classified in this group in so far as principal function of these is transaction of public
business and the keeping of books and records.
These shall include any building or part ofa building which is used as shops, stores, market, for display and sale of merchandis
These shall include any building or part of a building or struc­ture, in which products or materials of all kinds and properties ar
These shall include any building or part of a building used prima­rily for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares or
merchandise, like warehouses,coJd stor­ages, freight depot,transit sheds, store houses/garages,hangars,
truckterrminals.grain eleva­tors, barns and stables.
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urposes with or without cooking or dining or both facilities.!t includes one or two or multi family dwellings, lodging or rooming

of merchandise either wholesale or retail. Office, storage and service facilities incidental to the sale of merchandise and located in the same
d properties are fabricated, assembled or processed, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies, factories, etc.
gs, lodging or rooming houses, dormi­tories, apartment houses and flats and hotels.

se and located in the same building shall be included under this group.