In the field of structural health monitoring, there are different approaches for damage identification. Most of the traditional approaches use the acceleration measurement of the building to identify the changes in its dynamic properties. Similarly, some use these dynamic properties to update the numerical model and then estimate the location and magnitude of damage. This is a different approach of estimating the responses in the building to detect the damage by using the acceleration measured from a few floors of the building. An experimental study is carried out to test and validate this novel approach.