Design A School Building Using IS800:2007 & International Standards for Similar Loading Parameters

Technological improvement over the year has contributed immensely to the enhancement of quality of life through various new products and services. One such revolution was the pre-engineered buildings (PEB). Pre-engineered buildings can be adopted to suit a wide variety of structural applications; the greatest economy will be realized when utilizing standard details in structural framework. In this report, comparison is made between IS800:2007 & International standards. The entire range of pre-engineered building is studied while doing this comparison. A school building is designed using IS800:2007 & International standards by keeping the loading parameters similar, all the loads are applied accordance with Indian codes. An attempt is made to study the variation in tonnage as per IS800:2007 & International standards & possible reasons for variation in respective results. Analysis and design of these building frames was carried out using Staad-Pro software & manually also. The design codes are being updated and modified incorporating the results from the various researches and developments being carried out at the various R & D Centres in the country. Considering that the current practice all over the world is based on Limit State Method (LSM) or Load and Resistance Factor Design Method (LRFD), it was found essential during the year 2002 – 2003 that the code of practice for use of steel in general construction should be modified to LSM while maintaining Allowable Stress Design as a transition alternative. The IS800:2007 was thus prepared and published by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in 2008. As per market study it observed that more than 70% pre-engineered buildings are designed according to American codes. As per the design result obtained during this dissertation work it is noted that the weight of structure is reduced by 23.97% as compared to IS800:2007. Even though most of the pre-engineered buildings are designed accordance to American code it is noted that by using Euro-03 weight of structure is reduced by 27.2% and by using BS5950-2000 weight of structure is reduced by 9.04% respectively as per obtained design results as compared to IS800:2007.