Buildings built with cold formed sections as primary members (frames) and secondary members (purlins) offers viable alternative solutions for wide range applications of social sectors like housing, education etc. Design of cold formed sections has obvious complexity in view of buckling of sections and stress in the compression element, especially in flexure. In this study, using IS: 801 equations, effective section properties of C section are calculated for a wide range of configurations with different b/t ratios for flange subjected to maximum allowable stress. The study also includes simple design tools and few standard colds formed sections having a similar configuration but for thickness to be used for residential or community shelters for different wind zones. A resource is made to compare the results with similar studies using AISI code.