VULNERABILITY OF STEEL BUILDINGS

SKETCH PLAN
1. SURVEY DETAILS (Form Identifier)
(a) Form no.:
(b)Date:
(c) Surveyor:
(d)GPS coordinates:
2. BUILDING DETAILS
(a) Building Name:
(b) Address:______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
Village/Town/City_____________________District_____________
_________State________________________PIN_____________________
(c) Year of Construction:
(d) Width of adjoining main road (m):______
(e) Ownership:
Govt. Community/Corporate
PHOTOGRAPH Nos. Private Not Known/Under Dispute
(f) Predominant Use:
Assembly Office School Emergency
Residential Commercial Industrial
If Residential, no. of housing units: ________
Is the Building used for Lifeline function?
Yes No
Give Details………………………
(g) Minimum distance from adjoining building (m): ______
(h) Visual Condition:
Excellent Good Average Damaged

(i) Building on stilts/Open ground floor:

Yes No

<25% 25% - 50% >50%

(j) Construction drawings available:

Yes No
3. GENERAL INFORMATION
(a) Site Morphology

Site Morphology (Select All Applicable)

Flat Crest Embankment Downward Slope Trough Adjacent to Hill Slopes

(b) Soil
Soil Type Soil Nature

Hard Medium Soft Not Known Expansive Not Expansive Not Known

Liquefaction Potential

Liquefiable Not Liquefiable Not Known

(c) Foundation
Foundation Type (Select All Applicable)

Raft Piles Other

Isolated Combined Foundati
Under - Specify:
Footings Footings Not
reamed Piles Known

(d) Typology
Material Type of Load-Bearing Sub-types
Structure
With brick masonry partitions
Moment Resisting Frame
With cast in-situ concrete walls

With light weight partitions

Concentrically Braced With various floor/roof systems

Frame

With various floor/roof systems

Eccentrically Braced Frame
Steel

Light Metal Frame Single storey LM frame structure

With load-bearing masonry

With Reinforced Concrete

Mixed Structure
With composite steel and concrete vertical members

With Timber, Bamboo or others

(e) Workmanship and Code Compliance

Workmanship Code Compliance

Yes

Specify code followed:

Good Poor Not Known No Not Known

(f) Other

On hill slopes Entrance on higher slope

Building Built
on Split level Yes

Partial basement Entrance on lower slope

No

Row Middle Corner

Housing Type
Isolated
4. STRUCTURAL FEATURES
(a) Vertical structural system

Columns Beams Walls

o Masonry o Steel o RC o Masonry o Steel o RC o Masonry o Steel o RC

(b) Horizontal structural system

Roofing systems
Flat roof Sloped roof
Steel roof
Heavy timber Asbestos/GI truss Asbestos/GI RC
Light roof RC slab Light Heavy Steel roof truss
with brickwork Sheet Sheet Slab

(c) Connections

Yes Good Connections Average Connections Poor Connections

Riveted/Bolted
Connections No

Yes Good Connections Average Connections Poor Connections

Welded
Connections No

5. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
Tall storey heights (Different Presence of large open Presence of double height Significant Re-entrant
Storey Heights) Present? central courtyard columns corners in plan
Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No

Roof monolithically Presence of short/captive Outer dimensions at plinth Outer dimensions at plinth
combined with the vertical columns level smaller than at roof level smaller than at roof
members level in one axis level in both axis
Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No

6. BUILDING DESCRIPTION (Overall metrics, age, use and intensity of use)

No. of stories Average inter- Average Average floor Utilisation of floor Maximum
storey height inter-storey area (m2) area (%) Number of
(m) height (m) occupants
Ground Floor Other Stories
Basement Ground and <2.5 <2.5 < 25
stories above
stories 2.5-3.0 2.5-3.0 25-50
0 1 3.0-3.5 3.0-3.5 50-75
1 2 3.5-5.0 3.5-5.0 > 75
>2
3 > 5.0 > 5.0 Abandoned

Unfinished

5a. Period of Occupancy (Months/Year, Days/Month, Hours/Day)

5b. Year of last structural repair (if any)

7. GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
a) Projections
 Chimney Parapets Cladding Balconies Sunshades Comm. Towers Others
s

If others, give details______________________ Largest Horizontal Projection(H) = _____m Largest Vertical Projection(V) = _____m

b) Plan irregularity c) Vertical irregularity

Parameter Parameter
Lateral load-resisting elements not parallel to Open storey (Relative)
orthogonal axis
Re-entrant corners (>15% of plan dimension) Mass irregularities

Diaphragm discontinuity (cut/open area > 50% of gross Geometrical irregularity (horizontal dimension of lateral
area, and/or floor to floor variation in diaphragm stiffness) load-resisting system in a storey is >150% of adjacent storey )

Out-of-plane offsets of lateral load-resisting Discontinuity in vertical members over height

elements
Lateral load-resisting elements not symmetric Vertical stiffness irregularities
about orthogonal axis
Staggered floors (offset floor diaphragm)

8. HISTORY OF EARLIER DAMAGE

Yes No Not Known
If Yes,

Any storey/building noticeably leaning

Cracks at beam-column junction
Beam Distress - Vertical/Diagonal cracks near supports/mid span
Are the slabs exclusively deflected?
Cantilever slabs are damaged?
Cracks in Staircase
Out of plane failure of infill walls
If others, give details__________________________________

9. STRUCTURAL STRENGTHENING/REHABILITATION
Yes No Not Known
10. IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS