This document analyzes a 15-story residential building with and without shear walls using response spectrum analysis. It finds that placing symmetrically positioned shear walls improves the building's performance in terms of seismic parameters like story drift, displacement, forces and stiffness compared to a building without shear walls. The building is modeled in ETABS software and seismic parameters are compared for models with and without shear walls in zone 3. Results show that shear walls enhance the building's lateral stiffness and resistance to earthquake forces.