Building

a building is one of humans established construction. It is firmly connected and immovable with the underground (see. Real estate). It is usually conceived for a long-term service life.

Building is a minor of building (see down). The today's linguistic usage calls buildings in addition, building, if they possess a special value, an outstanding idealistic meaning or strong Monumentalität.

In the German building law buildings fall under the generic term of the structural facilities, into the respective Federal state building regulations of the individual Lands of the Federal Republic is defined.

differentiation

one can buildings after all possible parameters differentiate, for example after the construction, after the used building materialsor according to the function. Usual is however the simple distinction of foundation engineering and above ground construction.

Besides there are objects, with which it is not clear, whether they are buildings or natural origin, so e.g. the pyramid island Yonaguni in Japan.

production

a building during the building process are manufactured, these cover building design and the execution of construction.

A building consists of individual construction units, which consist again of building materials. The kind of the construction and the use of the building materials vary depending upon Location, technology - conditions and style-pounds.

function

contrary to a building is not compellingly intended a building for the stay or the storage of humans , organisms or things. A building can serve different purposes:

Building

serve for to the stay or storage of humans, organisms or things. Examples:Hut, house, factory building, storage hall, church

of traffic structures

bridge, road, tunnel, lug

of supplying buildings

water and sewers, sewage purification plants, dyke, dam, concrete dam.Under this category fall also transmitting towers, transmitting poles and overhead line masts

temporary buildings

flying buildings, tents, Messepavillions, auxiliary's buildings

see also

• list from buildings to ABC arranged, into Hamburg
• building types an arrangement
• list of the highest buildings thatWorld
• Wolkenkratzer
• portal: Architecture and building industry
• architecture, civil engineering

Web on the left of

Wiktionary: Building - word origin, synonyms and translations

• archINFORM - data base for architecture
• Structurae - data base for civil engineering
• of pictures of famous buildings: http://www.biw.fh-deggendorf.de/alumni/2001/wintermeier/bauwerke/
• building encyclopedia