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Building Classification

The document categorizes structures into five occupancy categories based on their function and importance. Category I includes essential facilities like hospitals and power facilities. Category II includes hazardous facilities handling toxic substances. Category III includes special occupancy structures like large assembly buildings and prisons. Category IV covers standard occupancy structures. Category V includes miscellaneous small structures.

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Building Classification

The document categorizes structures into five occupancy categories based on their function and importance. Category I includes essential facilities like hospitals and power facilities. Category II includes hazardous facilities handling toxic substances. Category III includes special occupancy structures like large assembly buildings and prisons. Category IV covers standard occupancy structures. Category V includes miscellaneous small structures.

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Occupancy Category

OCCUPANCY CATEGORY OCCUPANCY OR FUNCTION OF STRUCTURE


• Occupancies having surgery and emergency treatment
areas

• Fire and Police Stations

• Garages and Shelters for emergency vehicles and


emergency aircraft

• Structures and shelters in emergency preparedness


centers

• Aviation control towers

• Structures and equipment in communication centers


and other facilities required for emergency response

I ESSENTIAL FACILITIES • Facilities for standby power-generating equipment for


Category I structures

• Tanks or other structures containing housing or


supporting water or other fire-suppression material or
equipment required for the protection of Category I,II
or III, IV and V structures

• Public school buildings

• Hospitals

• Designated evacuation centers and

• Power and communication transmission lines

• Occupancies and structures housing or supporting


toxic or explosive chemicals or substances
II HAZARDOUS FACILITIES
• Non-building structures storing, supporting or
containing quantities of toxic or explosive substances
• Buildings with an assembly room with an occupant
capacity of 1,000 or more

• Educational buildings such as museums, libraries,


auditorium with a capacity of 300 or more occupants

• Buildings used for college or adult education with a


capacity of 500 or more occupants

• Institutional buildings with 50 or more incapacitated


patients, but not included in Category I

• Mental hospitals, Sanitariums, jails, prisons and other


SPECIAL OCCUPANCY
III buildings where personal liberties of inmates are
STRUCTURES
similarly restrained.

• Churches, Mosques and other Religion Facilities

• All structures with an occupancy of 5,000 or more


persons

• Structures and equipment in power-generating


stations and other public utility facilities not included
in Category I or Category II and required for continued
operation

• All structures housing occupancies or having functions


STANDARD OCCUPANCY
IV not listed in Category I, II, or III and Category V
STRUCTURES
• Private garage, carports, sheds and fences over 1.5m
V Miscellaneous Structures
high

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