residential buildings and such other residential (iv) Canteen and other infrastructure required shall

building as are used as hostels. be permitted to the extent 5 percentage of the

permissible covered area within floor area ratio.
54. 'Parapet' – Parapet walls and hand rails (v) Minimum percentage for sanction of building
provided on the edge of roof terrace, balcony etc. plan and issue of occupancy certificate shall be
where accessible shall not be less than 0.9 metres minimum 50% percentage of the permissible
and not more than 1.20 metres in height. floor area ratio.
55. 'Provision of lifts' – Provision of lift shall be (vi) Other regulation as applicable on industrial units
made for building more than 1.5 metres in height shall also be applicable to the film centre.
below which provision of lifts shall be optional.
59. ‘Garage’—The minimum height of a garage
56. 'Interior open space' – Habitable rooms not shall be 2.40 metre.
abutting on either the front rear or side open
60. Lighting and ventilation requirement'
spaces shall about an interior open space whose
minimum width shall be 2.4 metres and area 7.2 (i) The rooms shall have for the admission of light
square metre for building upto 15 metres height. one or more apertures such as windows and
fanlights opening directly to the external air or
57. 'Mezzanine Floor'
into an open verandah the maximum width of
(i) Mezzanine floor may be permitted with the such a verandah shall be 3 metres.
minimum height 2.10 metres between any two
(ii) Where the light and ventilation requirement are
floors above ground level in all types of building
not met through day lighting and natural
provided the same is counted as part of total
ventilation, the same shall be ensured through
permissible floor area ratio and height of the
artificial lighting and mechanical ventilation as
building.
per the latest provision of the National Building
(ii) Working hall in industrial buildings: The internal code, the minimum aggregate area of opening of
height of the working hall in industrial buildings buildings shall be as under:
shall be such as may be prescribed by the Uttar
Type of Building Minimum lighting and
Pradesh Factory Act amended from time to time. ventilation area required
(iii) 'Service floor' In case of commercial a) Residential / Business 10% of the carpet area of each
institutional buildings, service floor for provision and mercantile room or space.
of electrical or mechanical services, shall be
b) Industrial building
provided. If allowed maximum height of service
manufacturing hall
floor (from floor to ceiling without false ceiling) only
shall not be more than 2.1 metre. and it shall not
be counted towards floor area ratio but it shall be Plot size
included in total height of the building. Not more i. upto 100 square metre 12% of the carpet area of each
than one service floor shall be allowed. room or space.
ii. 101 to 400 square
58. 'Film centre’ metre 16% of the carpet area of each
room or space
(i) More than one studio of different sizes shall be iii. 401 square metre and
permitted within the permissible Floor area ratio above 20% of the carpet area of each
on plot. room or space

(ii) Minimum height of the studio shall be kept 3.0 c) Institutional Building 16% of the carpet area of each
metres and maximum 18.00 metres. room or space.

(iii) Quarters for chowkidar and skeleton staff
working round the clock shall be allowed. The
maximum covered area for this purposes shall
not be more than 15% of the permissible covered
area within floor area ratio.
61. Ventilation shaft.— Ventilation spaces for
water closet and bathroom, if not opening on
front side, rear of interior open spaces, shall
open to the ventilation shafts, the size of which
shall not be less than as given in the table below:

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 Sl No. Number of Size of Minimum capacity or exits, travel distance and height of
Storeys ventilation width in metre building as provided in regulation.
shafts in sq.m.
1 2 3 4 Explanations.—Lifts and escalators shall not be
1. 1,2 … 1.20 0.50 considered as exits.
2. 1,2,3,4 … 2.00 1.20
3. 1,2,3,4,5,6 … 4.00 1.50 65. Arrangement of exists: Exists shall be so
4. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 … 5.40 1.80 located so that the travel distance on the floor
5. 1 to 10 … 8.00 2.40
shall not exceed 15.0 metres for residential,
62. General Exits.— (i) (a) Every building meant educational, institutional and hazardous
for human occupancy shall be provided with buildings, and 20.0 metres for assembly
exits sufficient to permit safe escape of commercial industrial and storage buildings.
occupants, in case of fire or other emergency. Whenever more than one exist is required for a
floor of a building exit shall be placed as remote
(b) In every building exit shall comply with
from each other as possible. All the exists shall
minimum requirements of this part, except those
be accessible from the entire floor area at all
not accessible for general public use.
floor level.
(c) No building shall be altered so as to reduce the
66. Capacity.—
number, width or provision of exit to less than
that required. (i) The unit of exit width, used to measure capacity
of exits shall be 50 centi metres. A clear width of
(d) All exits shall provide continuous means of
25cms. Shall be counted as an additional half
access to the interior of a building or to an
unit. Clear widths less than 25 cms. Shall not be
exterior open space leading to a street.
counted for exit width.
(ii) The following general provision shall apply to
(ii) The occupants per unit exit width shall be as
all the building except residential buildings up to
given in the table below:
three storeys in heights:
(a) Exits shall be clearly visible, and routes to reach
the exit shall be clearly marked and sign posted, Serial Group of occupancy Number of occupancy
to guide the occupants of floor concerned. No. or building
Stairways Doors
(b) Fire fighting equipment shall be suitably located
and clearly marked. 1. Residential …25 75
(c) Alarm devices shall be installed to ensure prompt 2. Educational …25 75
3. Institutional …25 75
evacuation of the population concerned. 4. Assembly …60 90
(d) Exits shall be reached without passing through 5. Business …50 75
6. Mercantile …50 75
another occupied unit. 7. Industrial …50 75
8. Storage …50 75
63. Types of exits.—Exits shall be either of
9. Hazardous …25 40
horizontal or vertical type. An exit may be
doorway, corridor passage-way, to an internal (iii) After finding out the population of any floor or
staircase or external staircase ramps, varandah calculated by dividing the floor area (gross) by
and or terrace which have access to the street or the occupants load from the table given below,
the roof or a building. An exit may also include a the width of doors, stairways and corridors shall
horizontal exit leading to an adjoining building be calculated by dividing the population by the
at the same level. capacity of each exit from the table given in
Regulation 66(ii). The number of units of doors
64. Number and size of exits.—The requisite or stairways (widths) required can be found out
number and size of various exits shall be from the above and applying provisions of
provided, based on the population in each room, regulation 73 and 75 and exact width of the
area and floor based on the occupant load, doors or corridors or stairways can be found out.

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