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Grey Building  

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  • owl:NamedIndividual

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  • A Grey Building is one built with a traditional structure with walls and a roof standing more or less permanently in one place. For example a house or factory. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter, living space, privacy & security, to store materials, workspace, etc. In this model, grey building are classified by its functionality/occupancy (the use of a structure: for housing, for educational, etc.) based on Table 6 of GEM Building Taxonomy combined with the building taxonomy proposed in NBC 2005. In additional, Grey Building is classified by its structure based on GEM Building Taxonomy, following 13 attributes have been included in the GEM Building Taxonomy Version 2.0 (v2.0): 1. direction 2. material of the lateral load-resisting system 3. lateral load-resisting system 4. height 5. date of construction or retrofit 6. occupancy 7. building position within a block 8. shape of the building plan 9. structural irregularity 10. exterior walls 11. roof 12. floor 13. foundation system. Source: https://cloud-storage.globalquakemodel.org/public/wix-new-website/pdf-collections-wix/publications/GEM%20Building%20Taxonomy%20Version%202.0.pdf https://dailycivil.com/types-of-buildings/

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http://www.return.com/ontologies/2024/vocab#Grey_Building

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