TOPICS TO BE COVERED DURING BUILDING STUDY

INTRODUCTION
 Period of construction, Architect and Style of architecture.

BACKGROUND
 History [if any].
 Materials of construction and type of structural system employed.

SITE AND LOCATION

 Location with respect to major locations or aligned road.
 Site and accessibility, connectivity with major nodes [bus-stop,
station, airport].
 Surrounding landuse and land analysis.
 Present status.
 Maintenance.

CLIMATOLOGICAL ASPECTS
 Climatic and Physiographic data.
 Solar control, ventilation etc.

PLANNING, CIRCULATION & FUNCTIONS

 Space organization.
 Circulation within the site and buildings specific.
 Functional activities – solved properly or not.
 Identified problems if any.

USERS
 Number of users.
 User’s reaction – [may be asked in the form of a questionnaire].
 Visual impact and impact on the society.
 SERVICES DETAILS AND THEIR LOCATIONS
 Parking – No., on-street, off-street, deficiency, mechanized system if
any, segregation of parking spaces, flow of cars in the site.
 Internal facilities provided [Security, Electrical duct, Garbage
shoot, Ramps, Lifts, Fire-escape staircase]
 Landscape- name of trees, c/c spacing, landscape hardware and
furniture
 Air-conditioning system- type, capacity, location, maintenance, size
of machine room for centralized one, size of AHU, mode of function
 Sewerage system – location of septic tank, connection with city main
sewer, any purification done before letting off.
 Fire protection – type of devices involved, capacity and location of
fire fighting tank, detector system involved, process involved for
automatic / semi-automatic sprinklers, location of fire-fighting
staircase and its width.
 Electrical layout – type of wiring, connection with HT line,
successive stepping down of voltage, size of electrical duct, electrical
rooms, location of MCB
 Solid waste disposal system – process involved – linkage with all
kitchen and restaurants, any intermediate separation done before
dumping into municipal vans etc.
 Laundry – location of stacking room, area of washing, room size for
central laundry, machines involved, cataloging, distribution system of
post-washed clothes.
 Security system – Type of securities, size of security control room,
check points, segregation of users, location of CCTV.

ALL POINTS TO BE SUPPORTED BY PHOTOGRAPHS AND PLANS

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