Building - Definition and Overview

Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself. A building is usually a human-created object composed of more than a single element, permanently fixed to the ground, that mediates one or more aspects of the environment.

Lärbro church at Gotland

Buildings may be as simple as a lone roof providing shelter from the rain for a single occupant, or as complex as a hospital regulating temperature, air flow, light, gas content, bacteria movement, particle flow, pressure, and people movement and activities.

The design construction and operation of buildings is as old as humankind. Architects today design most large-scale buildings in a team with a large number of specialized engineers. Small residential buildings do not usually involve extensive work by architects or engineers.

Systems for transport of people within buildings:

• Elevator
• Escalator
• Moving sidewalk (horizontal and inclined)

Systems for interconnecting buildings:

• Skyway
• Underground city

See also

• Architecture
• Autonomous building
• Building construction
• Civil engineering
• Construction robot.
• Contour Crafting.
• Degussa AG
• List of building types
• Famous buildings
• Natural building
• Skyscrapers
• Slab-on-grade foundations
• Solar energy.

External links

• Automated house-building:Contour Crafting (http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/story.php?id=10009).

In computer programming, building is the process by which source code is converted by computer into executable object code. See compiler.