Parking Garage Guide

A garage is a building or a portion of the building, which is specially designed for the parking of vehicles. Usually there are several levels or floors for parking will be on.

Parking garages are designed to flow between the vehicles can be created using internal ramps, off ramps, vehicle lifts or elevators. The actual construction of the garage often depends on where it is located, how many cars are designed to hold and what kind of land is built. Only in recent years, many car parks that are made of independent buildings for that use, providing more floor spans and accommodation
a larger number of vehicles. Car parks are often built to serve as the residential area of apartments and commercial complexes can be built next to the building to guide his own as the first and sometimes the second floor of an apartment complex, and often in the underground as part of the basement of the building.

In the United States is the common conditions for these structures are garages, parking, parking, deck and Parade, the term "parking bay" is often used in the upper Midwest, including Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as Far East Buffalo, New York but in Great Britain, Hong Kong and Singapore, the term "Multi-Story Car Park" is used. Building codes in the United States use the term 'Open parking structures, which relate to the structure intended for storage of cars, set up to holes in the walls, so that filtering of fresh air, all car exhaust and fire.

Parking for the shopping centers is usually built adjacent to the multi-story in an attempt to facilitate access to the various floors of the various floors of the mall parking garage. The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, for example, has two large parking garages that are attached to the building on the eastern and western ends of the mall.

The parking garages of the hospital are usually linked to the hospital. The parking garages at the airport are usually linked to the airport. Parking for universities and colleges are built to the student login.

Joint use parking structure construction is becoming increasingly popular, especially in terms of public dollars are allocated. Mixed use building garages helps generate tax revenues for cities and places. Instead of a garage with a single-purpose retail and commercial spaces are included in the structure.