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Classifications of Buildings
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Motion picture theatres
Opera houses
Television studios admitting a viewing audience
Theatres, including experimental theatres
Art galleries
Auditoria
Bowling alleys
Churches and similar places of worship
Clubs, nonresidential
Community halls
Courtrooms
Dance halls
Daycare Facilities for Children
Exhibition halls (other than classified in Group E)
Gymnasia
Lecture halls
Libraries
Licensed beverage establishments
Museums
Passenger stations and depots
Recreational piers
Restaurants
Schools and colleges, nonresidential
Undertaking premises
Arenas
Indoor swimming pools, with or without spectator seating
Rinks
Amusement park structures (not elsewhere classified)
Bleachers
Grandstands
Reviewing stands
Stadia
Jails
Penitentiaries
Police stations with detention quarters
Prisons
Psychiatric hospitals with detention quarters
Reformatories with detention quarters
Care facilities with treatment
Convalescent /recovery/rehabilitation centres with treatment
Hospices with treatment
Hospitals
Infirmaries
Nursing homes with treatment
Psychiatric hospitals without detention quarters
Respite centres with treatment
Assisted/supportive living facilities
Care facilities without treatment
Childrens custodial homes
Convalescent/recovery/rehabilitation centres without treatment
Group homes
Hospices without treatment
Nursing homes without treatment
Reformatories without detention quarters
Respite centres without treatment
Apartments
Boarding houses
Clubs, residential
Colleges, residential
Convents
Dormitories
Hotels
Houses
Lodging houses
Monasteries
Motels
Schools, residential
Banks
Barber and hairdressing shops
Beauty parlours
Dental offices
Dry cleaning establishments, self-service, not using flammable or explosive solv
Laundries, self-service
Medical offices
Offices
Police stations without detention quarters
Radio stations
Small tool and appliance rental and service establishments
Department stores
Exhibition halls
Markets
Shops
Stores
Supermarkets
Bulk plants for flammable liquids
Bulk storage warehouses for hazardous substances
Cereal mills
Chemical manufacturing or processing plants
Distilleries
Dry cleaning plants
Feed mills
Flour mills
Grain elevators
Lacquer factories
Mattress factories
Paint, varnish and pyroxylin product factories
Rubber processing plants
Spray painting operations
Waste paper processing plants
Aircraft hangars
Box factories
Candy plants
Cold storage plants
Dry cleaning establishments not using flammable or explosive solvents or cleaner
Electrical substations
Factories
Freight depots
Helicopter landing areas on roofs
Laboratories
Laundries, except self-service
Mattress factories
Planing mills
Printing plants
Repair garages
Salesrooms
Service stations
Storage rooms
Television studios not admitting a viewing audience
Warehouses
Wholesale rooms
Woodworking factories
Workshops
Creameries
Factories
Laboratories
Light-aircraft hangars (storage only)
Power plants
Salesrooms
Sample display rooms
Storage garages, including open air parking garages
Storage rooms
Warehouses
Workshops
Townhouse, Townhome, condo
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Question
YES or NO
Q1
Is your building used for daycare facility?
Yes
No
Q2.1
Is your building Assembly occupancies?
Yes
No
Q2.2
Is it intended for the production ?
Yes
No
Q2.3
Is it viewing of the performing arts?
Yes
No
Q2.4
Is it the arena type or intended for occasional use for trade shows and similar exhibition purposes?
Yes
No
Q2.5
Are occupants gathered in the open air?
Yes
No
Q2.6
Does the number of persons in the suite does not exceed 30?
Yes
No
Q2.6.1
Is the sprinklered throughout?
Yes
No
Q2.6.2
Is the suite separated from the remainder of the building by a fire separation having a fire-resistance rating of not less than 1 hr?
Yes
No
Q3
Is your building Detention occupancies?
Yes
No
Q3.1
Is it a police station?
Yes
No
Q3.2
Is it not more than 2 storey in building height and 600 m2 in building area?
Yes
No
Q4
Is your building Treatment occupancies?
Yes
No
Q5
Is your building Care occupancies?
Yes
No
Q5.1
Is it the convalescent homes and children’s custodial homes?
Yes
No
Q5.1.1
Are occupants ambulatory and do they live as a single housekeeping unit in a suite?
Yes
No
Q5.1.2
Is the suite with sleeping accommodation for not more than 10 persons?
Yes
No
Q5.2
Is the care facility accepted for residential use pursuant to provincial legislation?
Yes
No
Q5.2.1
Do occupants live as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit with sleeping accommodation for not more than 10 persons?
Yes
No
Q5.2.2
Are smoke alarms installed in conformance with Article 3.2.4.20.?
Yes
No
Q5.2.3
Is emergency lighting provided in conformance with Subsection 3.2.7?
Yes
No
Q5.2.4
Is the building sprinklered throughout?
Yes
No
Q6
Is your building Residential occupancies?
Yes
No
Q7
Is your building Business and personal services occupancies?
Yes
No
Q8
Is your building Mercantile occupancies?
Yes
No
Q9
Is your building High-hazard industrial occupancies?
Yes
No
Q10
Is your building Medium-hazard industrial?
Yes
No
Q11
Is your building Low-hazard industrial?
Yes
No
Developed by
Ziyutec Inc.
Tel: +1 604 370 3361
Unit 100, 10551 Shellbridge Way, Richmond, BC V6X 2W8
info@ziyutec.com
www.ziyutec.com