Functional Planning, Analysis and Design of G+4 Sustainable Commercial Office Building in Large City Corporation Area under COVID-19 Situation

Abstract-The paper presents a novel functional planning and design aspect of a sustainable commercial multi storeyed building under COVID19 situation in a tropical country, India. India, the second largest populous and democratic country in the world has been affected by three consecutive waves of COVID 19 pandemic. Construction sector, the second largest industry of the country is the most seriously affected one. Under the situation closure and job scarcity for construction people has resulted in a recession in the country’s economy and danger to social survival. The functional planning of the office building of a medium sized construction firm is executed following minimum office space requirements for the officers of the engineering department per Govt. of India and modified per World Health Organization (WHO)’s regulation on COVID19 propagation. A specific example on the functional planning for commercial office building based on National Building Code (NBC) of India and Chennai Corporation building rules have been presented as a useful addition to literature on disaster resilience of a populated large city in a tropical country like India. Analyses and designs are executed by finite element software package for different load cases including seismic loading to make it useful for professional applications. Finally, the building is made sustainable per Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Policy of the United Nations using energy efficient materials for power supply, for construction of non-load bearing members and green building concepts. These concepts are found to be useful for medium sized construction companies through making their office building functional during and after the pandemic situation in India and other countries like India also thereby mitigating the recession in economy of construction sector.