This document presents a comparative study of the effect of different positions of shear walls in a 13-storey residential building using STAAD Pro software. The building model is analyzed without shear walls and with shear walls in different positions. Various structural load cases including dead, live, wind and earthquake loads are calculated according to Indian standards and applied to the model. Analysis results such as member forces and displacements are obtained and compared for different shear wall configurations to determine the best design for resisting lateral loads. It is found that providing shear walls improves earthquake resistance and reduces displacements compared to the model without shear walls. The model with shear walls at the center of the building performs most economically with minimum drift and displacement.