Abstract: The earthquake reconnaissance reports reveal that the failure of beam column joint has contributed to partial or complete collapse of reinforced buildings. The failure of a beam causes only localized effect whereas the failure of a beamcolumn joint causes instability of the whole building under seismic loading. This results in significant economic impact and loss of life. Hence it is essential to avoid failure of beam-column joint. The serious damage to the major structures during recent earthquakes is mainly attributed to lack of ductility in beam-column joint. In the present work, experimental investigation is carried out to study the effect of semi rigid connection in RCC beam column joints of reinforced concrete multi storey buildings. The effectiveness of semi rigid connection and effective positioning (stability approach) is analytically investigated for a typical four-bay four-storey and five-bay seven-storey RC frame with different percentage of joint connections by nonlinear static (pushover) and nonlinear dynamic (time-history) analyses. Poor performance was noted in rigid frame during the prediction of structural damage, lateralstrength and storey drift. The semi rigid connection isprovided in different places and it is found that performance of the structure enhanced in the stability approach. The stability approach exhibited improved performance in terms of roof displacement, for and semi-rigid connection.