We have published a new list representing the activities of the buildings you have on the platform, to help you classify your buildings better. This article shows the new activities list to be published on the platform. If you have doubts about where are the activities configured, you can check this article.
To make it more intuitive, the activities are divided into use and sub-use. The uses have been defined as:
- Educational
- Electrical
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Industrial
- Institutional Civil
- IT
- Logistics
- Offices
- Primary Sector
- Recreational
- Religious Buildings
- Residential
- Retail
- Transportation
Below you can see a section for each use and our proposal for each of the sub-uses:
Educational
All educational buildings are those whose purpose is related to education. The proposal is the following:
- University
- School/Educational Centre
- Kindergarten
- Other
Electrical
All electrical buildings are those whose purpose is related to controlling, transforming, supplying or transmitting electricity. The proposal is the following:
- Electrical equipment, such as electrical transformers
- EV chargers
- Other
Healthcare
All healthcare buildings are those whose purpose is related to health. The proposal is the following:
- Hospital
- Healthcare Center (outside of hospitals, healthcare centres usually would be smaller)
- Veterinary
- Other
Hospitality
All hospitality buildings are those included in the hospitality sector. The proposal is the following:
- Hotel
- Hostel
- Camping
- Restaurant
- Fast food restaurant
- Bar/Cafe/Bakery
- Other
Industrial
All industrial buildings are those whose purpose is related to the industrial sector including energy generation. The proposal is the following:
- Photovoltaic generation
- Wind generation
- Thermal generation
- General manufacturing
- Food manufacturing
- Water treatment plant
- Waste management
- Construction site
- Other
Institutional Civil
All institutional civil buildings are public buildings related to the civil infrastructure. The proposal is the following:
- Administrative/Judicial buildings
- Police/Fire station
- Prison
- Post office
- Public lighting
- Traffic lights
- Other
IT
The IT category has been created to represent infrastructure focused on IT systems. The proposal is the following:
- Communications Tower
- Data Centre
- Other
Logistics
All logistics buildings are those whose purpose is related to logistics, including parking. The proposal is the following:
- Distribution centre
- Warehouse
- Cold storage warehouse
- Parking
- Other
Offices
This category aims to represent offices or office buildings only. The proposal is the following:
- Office single: Representing one office only, it could be a full floor inside an office building.
- Tower/Office building: Representing the whole building, belonging to one or multiple companies.
- Other
Primary sector
The primary sector aims to represent all activities exploiting natural resources. The proposal is the following:
- Mining and quarrying
- Greenhouses
- Grain or food storage/Silo
- Livestock farming
- Forestry
- Fishing
- Other
Recreational
All recreational buildings are those whose purpose is related to sports, leisure and culture. The proposal is the following:
Sports
- Sports Gym
- Swimming pool: To represent swimming pools only
- Sports fields and courts: To represent football fields, basketball courts, gymnasiums...
Culture
- Library
- Museum/Art gallery
- Theater/Auditorium
- Conference centre
- Cinema
Other
- Bowling
- Ice-Skating ring
- Pub/Disco
- Amusement park
- Bingo/Casino
- Other
Religious buildings
This category will englobe any building whose purpose is related to religion.
Residential
All residential buildings are those whose purpose is related to housing. The proposal is the following:
- Apartment: To represent one apartment only
- Apartment building: To represent the whole building that has apartments
- Single house
- Housing community: To represent a group of apartments/single houses/apartment buildings
- Retirement home
- Other
Retail
This category is to represent all buildings related to the retail sector. The proposal is the following:
- Banking (representing banks or insurance companies stores)
- Small supermarket/food store
- Large supermarket
- Small store (not a supermarket or food store)
- Large store (not a supermarket)
- Gas station
- Shopping Centre
- Street market
- Beauty Centres
- Laundry
- Mechanical services
- Other
Transportation
This category is to represent the infrastructure related to the transport sector. The proposal is the following:
- Airport
- Train/Metro station
- Bus Station
- Roads
- Railroads
- Tunnels
- Ports
- Other