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1.7 INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL BUILDING AND TYPES- 3. Telecom Centres or Data Hosting Centres
4. Flex Buildings
 Any building structure used by the industry to store raw materials or for manufacturing
5. Light Manufacturing Buildings
products of the industry is known as an industrial building.
6. Research And Development Set up

1. Warehouse
 There are buildings that are used for storing goods on behalf of other companies.
These are called warehouses. Although warehouses can be of different sizes, they are
usually large and are located outside city limits. They can have more than one storey
and can have loading docks, huge parking lots of big trucks. They can also have a
small office set up inside the premises.
 These typical single-story warehouses range in size from 5,000 to hundreds of
thousands of square feet and are used for the storage and transport of goods. Ceilings
are generally at least 60 feet high because of the necessary racking and storage
systems concealed beneath its roof. Loading docks, big truck doors, and parking areas
 Industrial buildings are generally used for steel plants, automobile industries, utility for semi-trailers used for distribution are among the other important elements of an
and process industries, thermal power stations, warehouse, assembly plants, storage, industrial building.
garages, etc.

Factors Considered while Selecting Site For Industrial Building:-

 Site should be located on an arterial road.

 Local availability of raw material.
 Facilities like water supply, electricity
 Topography of an area
 Soil conditions with respect to foundation design
 Waste disposal facilities
 Transportation facilities
 Sufficient space for storage of raw materials

Types of Industrial Building

1. Warehouses
2. Cold Storage Buildings

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2. Cold Storage Buildings-

 Refrigeration and cold storage facilities are distribution centres dedicated to food
items like meat, produce, and dairy. These buildings provide rooms for cooling and
freezing in order to maintain goods at the right temperatures before they are sent out.
Other key features include docks with special seals to keep products cool, as well as
insulated overhead doors that keep them frozen.
 These are especially built to store large amounts of food products and keep them
under refrigerated conditions for long periods. These buildings are located mostly
along state and national highways and in places where there is good supply of
electricity.
 FLEX Building Systems is committed to providing flexible, superior building
systems for a variety of applications. Flex buildings often incorporate different areas
or spaces in a design, optimised for different purposes and needs. This can be either
an uninsulated or insulated warehouse, workshop, garage or even a showroom,
often in combination with one or more offices. The buildings often have to balance
complex solutions for production, cold storage and heating. Flex space buildings are
mainly of three types - Research and Development buildings, Data centre
buildings, and Show rooms.

5. LIGHT MANUFACTURING BUILDING:-

3. Telecom/Data Hosting Centers (Switching Centers, Cyber Centers, Web Hosting

Facilities, Telecom Centers )

 These highly specialized industrial buildings are located close to major

communications trunk lines to allow for access to an extremely large and redundant
power supply capable of powering extensive computer servers and telecom switching
equipment.

4. FLEX BUILDING:-

 This is the newest addition to the category of industrial segment of industrial real
estate and is a result of the evolving needs of modern times. These flex building have
more than one usage and can accommodate a Rand D facility, an office set up,
These buildings can be used in processing food items or assembly of light machinery like
light manufacturing and even showroom spaces. They are flexible in nature and some
fans, water pumps, gadgets, etc. These are generally small in size as compared to heavy
of the uses can be changed by making simple modifications.
industrial buildings and do not have blast furnace, high capacity exhaust systems etc. These

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buildings can sometimes find alternative uses like a unit making water pumps can be
converted in to assembly unit for gadget by making changes in the some of the installed
machinery.

6. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BUILDING:-

Research and Development (R&D) forms an integral part of many businesses and they like to
set up their own R&D centres which cater to their specific requirements. A lot of life sciences
companies have their R&D centres which are usually owned by them. These centres are
generally not in the centre of the city. Companies can house their scientists and other staff in
these centres and hence there are residential elements in this kind of a set up. There can also
be elements of office buildings in a R&D centre. Sometimes these centres run on rented
buildings also but the lease period is usually long.

7. SHOWROOM BUILDINGS:-

A showroom, also referred to as a gallery, is a large space used to display products or show
entertainment. A showroom is a large space used to display products for sale, such as
automobiles, furniture, appliances, carpet or apparel. It is a retail store of a company in which
products are on sale in a space created by their brand or company. There are many types of
showroom buildings like jewellery shops, malls, large vehicle showroom, furniture
showrooms etc.

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