Buildings or their parts and construction works are classified according to their use in the following categories:
A.Residence
B. Temporary residence.
C. Public gathering.
D. Education.
E. Health and Social Welfare.
G. Imprisonment.
H. Commerce.
T. Offices.
I. Industry – Craft.
K. Storage.
L. Car parking and gas stations.
M. Other uses.
A.RESIDENCE:
This category includes all buildings used to provide the occupants with spaces suitable at least for sleeping and physical hygiene and cleanliness, where the occupants reside permanently or seasonally.
- Buildings of three or more apartments.
- Detached houses
- The semi-detached houses.
- The commons.
B.TEMPORARY RESIDENCE:
This category includes all buildings used to provide the occupants with suitable places for sleeping and physical hygiene and cleanliness.
- The hotels
- Hostels
- Boarding schools and dormitories for healthy persons aged six years or older.
C.PUBLIC GATHERING:
This category includes all buildings used for the gathering of at least fifty people for social, economic, religious, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational or sporting events and activities, as well as for waiting for means of transport.
- The conference areas.
- The large classrooms.
- The exhibition spaces.
- The museums.
- The concert venues.
- The courtrooms.
- The temples.
- Sports gathering areas.
- The theaters
- The cinemas.
- Restaurants, patisseries, cafes.
- Entertainment centers.
- The multipurpose rooms.
- Passenger waiting rooms.
- Banks with a gross area of at least 70 m2.
D.EDUCATION:
This category includes all buildings used for the gathering of six to 49 people for teaching.
- The buildings of tertiary and secondary compulsory education.
- The tutorials.
- Kindergartens.
E.HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE:
This category includes all buildings used for medical prevention, diagnosis or treatment, for the care of elderly or sick people or those with reduced mental or physical capacity, for sleep and physical hygiene of infants and children under the age of six.
- The hospitals
- The clinics
- Rural clinics
- The health stations
- The health centers
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Institutions for people with special needs
- Institutions for the chronically ill
- Nursing homes
- Nurseries, kindergartens.
- Boarding schools for children under the age of six.
- The clinics.
G.PENALTIES:
This category includes all buildings used for detention, imprisonment or serving sentences.
- The detention centers
- Reformatories
- Prisons
H.TRADE:
This category includes all buildings used for the exhibition or sale of goods, the treatment or grooming of people, the repair or other processing of goods, which are not included in the category of industry – crafts.
- The shopping centers
- Markets and supermarkets
- Stores
- Pharmacies
- Barbershops and hairdressers
- Fitness institutes
- Small clothing and shoe repair shops.
I.OFFICES:
This category includes all buildings used for intellectual or administrative activities, public or private, or for business activities, as long as they are not included in the trade category.
- Public service offices
- Local government offices
- Libraries
- Business offices
- Freelance offices
- Banks with a gross area of less than 70 m2.
F.INDUSTRY:
This category includes all buildings that house industries, crafts, laboratories, manufacturing plants, services with important electromechanical equipment.
- The factories
- The refineries
- Power plants
- Industrial facilities
- Car maintenance and repair workshops.
- Dyeing shops
- The carpentry
- The research and training laboratories
- Food processing plants
- The cleaners
- The ironing facilities
- Organized laundromats
- The independent computerization centers.
K.STORAGE:
This category includes all buildings used for storing goods, storing objects or housing animals.
- General warehouses
- Rural warehouses
- The port sheds
- Store warehouses
- Museum warehouses
- The stables, cowsheds, piggeries, poultry farms
L.CAR PARKING AND LIQUID FUEL STATIONS:
This category includes all buildings used for parking cars, two-wheelers or three-wheelers or for gas stations, or for car washes.
M.OTHER USES:
This category includes all buildings that have such a use that they cannot be classified in any of the previous categories.