Dubai Building Regulations

Dubai Municipality
Building Regulations
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The list of the conditions and the specifications of construction
Article (1) : This list is called "The list of the conditions and the specifications of construction".
Article (2): When any disagreement about any section from the following sections in the articles of this list
happen or having unclear specifications or standard norms, the explanation which is issued by the
competent administration through the committee of building license is the final explanation which is
approved for this section or specification.
Article (3): The conditions and the specifications which are mentioned in this list are inseparable part from
the technical conditions and specifications that are being applied by the competent administration and
founded on the following:
a) The technical conditions and specifications for constructional works.
b) The technical conditions and specifications for sanitary drainage works.
c) The technical conditions and specifications for road works and parking lots.
d) The technical conditions and specifications which are mentioned in the regulations of environment
protection and vocational safety.
e) The technical conditions and specifications for the works of the nutritional institutions.
f) The technical conditions and specifications for hotel establishments and the bases for their
classification.
g) The technical conditions and specifications for the means of safety and fire prevention.
h) Health regulations and public safety.
i) The technical conditions and specifications that have been mentioned in the list of classifying and
economizing land usages.
j) The technical conditions and specifications for thermal insulation that has been mentioned in the
thermal insulation list.
k) Any other conditions or specifications which are applied by the competent administration.
Article (4): The definitions:

When applying the regulations of this list, the hereunder words and phrases will have the mentioned
meanings in front of each one unless the course of the text refers to something else.
• Emirate: Dubai emirate
• Municipality: Dubai municipality.
• Director General: The director general of the municipality.
• The competent administration: The administration of buildings and lodging.
• The concerned administration: The administration which is asked by the competent administration
to give its technical opinion in a specific affair.
• The owner: The normal person or the legal person (private or general) where the land is registered
by his name as an owner or possessor or tenant.
• The committee of building license: The committee which is formed in the competent
administration through a decision by the director general to study the applications of building
licenses and taking the suitable decision.
• The Engineer: The normal or the legal person who is in charge of designing or watching over the
constructional works or both of them and who is authorized to practice geometrical consultation in
the emirate according to the prevalent regulations.
• The contractor: The normal or the legal person who is in charge of executing constructional works
and who is authorized to practice buildings contracts activities in the emirate according to the
prevalent regulations.
• The inspector: An engineer or the inspector of the competent administration.
• The people of peculiar needs: Any person who uses a wheel chair or sticks or any movement means
which can help him move including the paralyzed, the crippled, the one who has lost his limbs, the
blind, the deaf, the patients and the old people who are incapable of normal movement.
• Construction license: The statement issued by the competent administration to do the
constructional works that are set to execute on a plot according to the approved designs,
specifications and conditions.
• The special approvals: The approvals to overstep one section or more from the sections of this list or
any planning regulations or any other regulations that are related to constructional works which are
issued by legally authorized bodies to issue such like approvals.
• The location: the plot.
• The plot: any piece or area from a land that is settled by its sides, its distinguished number and its
location and dedicated for construction according to any plan or division project or by any other way
which is declared by law to be used or constructed or to build on it as one whole.
• The line of the plot: The border line of the plot.
• The area of the plot: the total area for any plot which is restricted between its boarder lines.
• The diagram of the plot: The setting out plan or effect plan issued by the administration of planning
and area in the municipality which shows the boarders of the plot, its dimensions, its area and the
neighborhood.
• The road or the street: The highway or the driveway which is for the cars or pedestrians or both of
them according to the maps that are supplement with the system of classification and ration of the
land usages in the emirate.
• The track: any highway or driveway that can be used to get on foot to any plot as a secondary lane
which can lead to it that does not look like a street or a highway in the skeleton diagram of the
emirate.
• The line of the street: the legal line which separate between the street or the road and the
commanding land and it is also called the limit of the road.
• The front line of the plot: The boarder line of the plot which looks out to the street or the track if it
is not on the street as it is decided in the detailed maps which are approved to classify land usages.
• The lateral line of the plot: Any boarder line for the plot without the front or the back line.
• The back line of the plot: The line of the plot that is opposite to its front line which is located to a
further distance.
• The mid line: The longitudinal line that dominates the street or the track or the road which is
approved by the municipality.
• Parcel coverage: The horizontal area that is occupied by most of the main buildings and which is
supplemented on the same plot and measured from the external boarder of the outer walls and the
ceiled porches that are used in the ground floor or the upper floors no matter which one is more
projecting. The unused decorative projections that are not less than (1.5) feet are not calculated
from the coverage calculation.
• The rail or the fence: An artificial barrier built from any material or materials that are used to
surround an area of land in order to shield it or to divide it into parts or for any other stated reason
• The neighborhood: any neighboring plot except the streets and the tracks.
• The central works area: The area of the old Dubai as it is specified on the map that is supplement
with the system of classifying and economizing land usages.
• The archeological area: The area which includes historical buildings and cultural archeological
characteristic as it is specified on the map that is supplement with the system of classifying and
• The archeological buildings: The buildings which includes architectural archeological elements
whether they are inside or outside the historical area where it is not stated to take down, construct
and modify it without getting the preliminary approval from the concerned administration.
• The building: any construction that has been built or set in a strong location on the land or will be
established on a building that has a strong location on the land whether this construction is built
from rocks or cement or iron or wood or mud or any other material that is used to construct
buildings. This includes foundations, walls, ceilings, projections, rails and the like.
• The temporary building: any construction that is being removed from its place after the end of the
specified time for the activity or the usage which is constructed for this reason.
• The main building: the building in which the main or the original usage for the plot, which is built on,
is running.
• The extensions: a building or an establishment that is next to or detached from the main building
and using it will be secondary or complement to the main usage of the building.
• Building height: the vertical distance that is measured from the paving stone level of the next road,
which is used to calculate the level of the ground floor tiles, to the last ceiling in this building. This
doesn't include the parapet of the roof or the ceiling of the stairwell and the mechanical equipments
or the services on the last ceiling.
In other words; the vertical distance which is measured from the finished ground level to the highest
point of the finished height for the roof of the building.
• The building extension: is the extension of the outer wall of the building on the ground floor level
that is located on one side or more of the building sides that is opposite to the street or the highway.
• The building withdrawals: the regressions of the building from the boarder of the plot.
• The building projection: any part of the building which is projecting out of the vertical level for the
outer walls from the floor which is under this part.
• The commercial buildings: the buildings in which commercial works are allowed according to the
system of classifying and economizing land usages.
• The stated usage: any usage of a plot or occupying any stated building in any area according to the
system of classifying and economizing land usages in the emirate.
• The main usage: The main or the prevalent usage which is existed or suggested or stated according
to the system of classifying and economizing land usages or according to the special approvals that
are issued concerning any plot.
• The supplementary usage: The secondary usages which are built on the same plot that held the
main usage such as servant's rooms, parking lots and other secondary usages.
• The mall: A group of shops or galleries or spaces that are used for commercial purposes with a total
commercial area that is not less than (10) thousands square feet that opens to squares or inner
passages that are covered and conditioned. As well as any shop or gallery where the net its
commercial area is more than (10) square feet and it is used in retail for the substances to which a
lot of people resort
• Hotel establishment: The hotel or the motel or the hotel apartments.
• The hotel: A building or independent part of a building that includes not less than (10) bedrooms
and provides overnight stay and food services in exchange for money and each room has its own
bathroom.
• The hotel apartments: A group of villas or furnished apartments or studios which are not less than
(8) .They are hired to dwellers daily or weekly or monthly or yearly.
• The motels: A building or a part of a building that includes not less than (10) bedrooms and provides
overnight stay and food services only in exchange for money. It may have some mutual bathrooms.
• Collective residence: A building used as a place for collective residence for a group of people who
belong to a specific side (university, internal school, hospital, company . . .etc) and it includes more
than one room.
• Invested villas: An assemblage of private villas connected or semi- connected with each other. There
might be mutual external open spaces and mutual entertaining services. It is not allowed to
subdivide its property unless there are legal withdrawals between them.
• The private villas: A separate building or semi-separate with all its floors which is for only one
family. It has a ground entrance and an independent parking lots as well as independent open
spaces.
• Bungalow: A building that is for one family which is built on the boarders of the plot without any
withdrawal from all sides and all its openings are over looking to an inner yard where its dimensions
are not less than (10×10) feet and it has only one kitchen, one lavatory and one parking lot.
• The gallery: Any place for practicing a commercial activity as exposing goods for retail or whole sale
where the width of the shop window facing the street is not less than (30) feet.
• The shop: Any space whose area is not less than (120) square feet which is for practicing commercial
activity such as exposing goods for retail or wholesale.
• The office: The place for practicing office activity and its area is not less than (100) square meters.
• The room : A place for residential purposes or any other purpose which require people residence
temporally or permanently and its area is not less than (100) square feet.
• The kitchen: A place for preparing food or drinks and its area is not less than (40) square feet. Only
one kitchen is allowed in one residential unit.
• The preparation kitchen: A place for making light drinks and it can't be replaced by the kitchen in a
residential units.
• The apartment (residential unit): A part of a building ready to settle in. It includes a room or more
with a hall whose area is not less than (100) square feet which is ready and designed for the
residence of one person or many people. It includes only one kitchen as well as at least one lavatory
which form an independent rental unit.
• The studio: A part of a building ready to settle in. It includes only one room. It is designed for one
person or more and it has a kitchen and a lavatory. This part forms an independent rental unit.
• The janitor's residence: A room or a unit or a place that is on the same plot in which the building is
set on or it is inside the building where the janitor lives . Its area is not less than (70) square feet.
• The servants' residence: A room or connected or separate rooms that are built on the same plot
where the main building is. It is for the servants who work in the building and the area of the room is
not less than (70) square feet.
• The storehouse: The ceiled part in a building which is used as a place for storing substances where
you can compile or sort them to reship them or store them again without having any change in the
chemical or the natural qualities for the original substances.
• The outer storehouse: That part which is not ceiled where goods or substances or vehicles or stored
in.
• The parking lot: A building or an establishment or any part of them which is used or dedicated for
parking or storing cars. It may or may not have a ceiling.
• The passage: A ceiled passage which is connected to any building. It is opened to a street or to an
uncovered yard or it connects between more than one building.
• Sunshade: Any cover which is projecting from the wall of any building or any cover that is set on
columns to protect any door or window or passage from rain or sunlight.
• The stairwell: A space in the building where the stairs are inside it.
• The arbors: a sunshade with a ceiling that is undecorated which has holes with a percentage not
less than (50%). It is usually built for architectural decoration or for climate purposes.
• Trash room: A place or a room approved by the competent administration in the ground floor in the
same building to store trash temporary in order to be carried outside the building to get rid of it .This
place or room can be within the boarders of the building or the plot according to the approval of the
competent administration.
• Porches: uncovered or covered projections which are out of the vertical level of the outer walls that
are next to it from the building. They can be reached from inside the building.
• Decorative elements: the elements which are added to the building for aesthetical or expressive or
symbolic purposes and it can't be used for commercial or residential purposes or as permanent or
temporary porches.
• The light opening and vents: the opening that gives natural lighting or ventilation or both of them
for any facility in the building that is on any roof or wall of its outer walls.
• The secondary ventilation (discontinuous ventilation): It is provided for rooms whose depth is more
than three times its width in order to provide a natural ventilation and lighting for the inner part of
the rooms and this is through an opening or a skylight whose area is not less than (5%) from the
room's area and its width is not less than (4) feet.
• The inner yard: The space which is connected with the outer air from its top and surrounded by
buildings from three sides or more. Rooms from one or more residential or office units are
overlooking it.
• The skylight: The space that is connected with the outer air from its top and is surrounded by
buildings from three sides or more. Service facilities are overlooking it.
• The outer yard (pocket light): The skylight or the inner yard that is open to a track or a road. Its side
is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the track with a longitude not less than (30) feet.
• The service pipeline: a closed space where the fittings of service pipes and facilities are passing
through it and it has manholes for repairing.
• The coverage ratio: the percentage resulting from dividing the area of parcel coverage to the area
of the plot.
• Withdrawal: The vertical distance that extends between any frontal line or lateral line or back line
for any plot and s the closest wall or projection (used) for the building which is built on.
• The total flat area: The overall sum for the covered space in a building or establishment where its
size is among the outer faces of the building boarders including porches, balconies and ceiled
projections as well as any other ceiled parts such as parking lots, movement passages, skylights,
unloading places, service floors, swimming pools and any other establishment in the plot.
• The flat ratio: The quotient of the sum of the flat areas of the building or for a group of buildings to
the overall area of the plot. In other words , It is the percentage of dividing the total flat area, which
is subtracted by (the area of parking lots and the tracks that lead to it , unloading and loading places,
outer passages , swimming pools, cellar floors for parking lots and services, the floors of mechanical
services, the floor of services on the roof , the projections of porches and balconies that are
uncovered), to the land area.
• The area of a residential unit: The inner area in any residential unit which includes all the parts that
can be reached from within the unit that is set for the residence of a group of people.
• The floor: A part of the building that is confined between the top surface of any floor and the top
surface of the floor which is above it.
• The floor of the cellar (underground): A floor in a building where a part of it is not less than half of
its height below the level of the road and the level of its ceiling is not more than (3.5) feet from the
level of the edge of the road for all building and (4.5) feet for special residential villas. The cellar is
consider a ground floor in measuring the height or the floor area if the level of ceiling is more than
the level of the street which is used to calculate the level of the ground floor which is indicated in
article (7) in this list.
• The ground floor: the first floor in a building and the level of its floor is higher than the level of
sideway with a rate that is not less than half feet and it is not more than (4) feet from the level of the
edge of the road for all buildings and (5) feet for the private residential villas.
• The mezzanine: Partial or complete floor that is between the first floor and the ground floor (plan
and elevation) and using it is either integrant and attached to the usage in the ground floor or
separated according to the repeated floor or it is used as services.
• The repeated floor: The floor which is similar to the floors or similar to the next or the previous floor
or to both of them and it is usually above the ground floor.
• The top floor: the last floor in a building according to the heights which are settled in the map which
is attached to the system of classifying and economizing land usages in the emirate or the special
issued approvals and it is directly under the roof floor.
• The roof floor: A part of a floor which is above the top floor and it is usually used for the rooms of
the machines of elevators and stairs, the rooms of mechanical and electric services , water tanks,
some decorative sunshades(arbors) or swimming pools, gymnasium and its related services. It
withdraws with a rate not less than (5) feet away from the boarders of the building on the roof and
its area is more than (50%) of the top floor.
• The floor of mechanical services: The floor where the devices and the mechanical and electric
equipments of the building are put in. It is designed in a way that fits only the purpose of its use in
accordance to the approval and the conditions of the committee of building license. It is not allowed
to use any part of it for other purposes and it does not go under the calculation of the flat ratio.
• The height of one floor: the distance from the level of its ground to the ground of the next floor.
• The net height of one floor: the net distance from the level of the tiles of the floor to the plaster of
its apparent ceiling.
• The ground level: the average of the ground level that ends at the centre of all walls in any building
and if the walls are parallel with the lateral sidewalk, the ground level will be measured at the lateral
sidewalks.
• The floor level: when the level of the floor becomes higher than the level of the edge of the road or
the track which is related to the areal reference if the road or the track does not exist.
• The referential level: the level of the upper front part for the tiles of the first step of the entrances
which are located on the boarders of the land. Its height is (300) millimeters above the level
of the edge of the road.
• Advertisement: any definition or description or drawing or any other mean which is being fixed or
written or drawn directly or indirectly on any building or establishment or plot to indicate to any
activity or products and the like.
Article (5): The Planning limits:

a. It is not stated to construct any building on any plot unless it is congruent to the map which
is supplement with the system of classifying and economizing land usages which is issued by
the administration of planning and area in the municipality. According to this map, the
followings are settled; the number of floors , from which the building is consisted of, the
type of its use , its outer withdrawal , the required parking lots , building ratio and the flat
ratio in it .
b. The Islamic cultural Arabic identity and the local architectural feature and the harmony and
compatibility of colors with the surrounding environment should be observed when
preparing the designs, processing the architectural frontages for the different buildings
which are built on the archeological areas.
Article (6): The limit inferior for the area of the plot:
a. except some places and special conditions which subject to the stipulations and the approval of
the administration of planning and area in the municipality, the limit inferior for the area of the
plot which is suitable for building is shown as the following:
1. Inside the central work area in Derah Dubai Waber (with its boarders
shown in the general skeleton diagram for the city) (1050) square feet as
a limit inferior.
2. In the remaining emirate places (1600) square feet as a limit inferior.
3. The limit inferior for the length of the frontal face of the plot which is
overlooking a road or a track is (30) feet.
b. In the irregular plots whose area is more than the limit inferior which is being mentioned in the
previous section, in order to get a construction license, the plot should contain a square whose
dimensions (30×30) feet liable to built on it.
1. The committee of building license can state to build on the plots which
do not accomplish the two mentioned conditions in this article in the
case of presenting architectural designs which go with the settled usage
and does not deform the general view.
Article (7): The building heights:

a. The referential level for buildings is settled on a height (300) millimeters above the level of the
edge of the road or the roads that overlook the plot. In case of having longitudinal slopes in the
road, it is observed to make the required graduation in the level of the ground floor which
guarantees keeping the required referential level.
b. The level of the tiles of the ground floor should not be more than (4) feet from the level of
the edge of the road except the residential villas where it should not be more than (5) feet. If
there is a plot on one street or two streets or more with different levels, the level of the ground
floor should not be more than (1.5) feet from the level of the high edge of the road or (4) feet
from the level of the low edge of the road for all buildings no matter which one is higher and (5)
feet for residential villas from the street where the main entrance is overlooking it.
c. The heights of buildings from the level of adjacent paving stone which is adopted to calculate
the level of the tiles of the ground floor is settled according to section (b) from this article and in
accordance to the details of the plan of the heights of buildings for the city except for the
buildings where special decisions are issued concerning them. In general, the limit
superior for the building heights is equal to the number of floors according to the system of the
area multiplied by (13) feet regarding that the height average of one floor is (13) feet. If the
height increases above the limit superior, the real height will be used in calculating the
withdrawals.
d. The height of the fences, rails and the separating walls which are set in the residential building
(except plant fences) should not be more than (10) feet. Also, these establishments should not
be built outside the line of the plot.
e. The net inner height for one floor will be calculated from the level of its floor tile to the plaster
of the its apparent ceiling according to the following:
i. Office and residential usages:
a. Limit inferior: 9 feet
b. Limit superior: 14 feet
ii. Commercial usages:
a. Shops and galleries
b. The ground floor:
iii. Limit inferior:
a. Limit inferior 10 feet. In the case of adding half mezzanine, it
will be (8) feet.
iv. The whole mezzanine:
a. Limit inferior: 8 feet and 6 inches
v. Half mezzanine:
a. Limit inferior: 7 feet 6 inches
vi. Halls and malls:
vii. Industrial ,storing and workshop usages:
c. In addition, you may exceed the previous limit superior when
some special industrial projects require specific heights.
viii. The ceiled parking lots:
a. Limit inferior: 8 feet the net bottom of bridges and the
suspended lines of services.
ix. Schools, and kindergartens:
x. Mosques:
b. Limit superior: according to the design and the area of the
mosque.
xi. Special buildings:
a. According to its special studies.
f. It is stated, and for special considerations which the nature of
i. some buildings has and the architectural designs (galleries, cinemas, schools,
malls, industrial equipments), to exceed the height which is being mentioned in
section (e) from this article where the standard specifications whish are
approved by the committee of building license and special requirements are
being applied in each usage with observing the heights coordination of those
buildings with the adjacent buildings.
g. The parts of the buildings or the establishments which are allowed to exceed the height are
settled according to the following:
i. Ornamental elements in general including minarets, domes and ornamental and
archeological towers.
ii. Chimneys and the devices of discharging smoke, water tanks, lift well and
stairwell, the aerials of television and radio, cooling towers, the sunshades of
arbors, the airstrip for vertical aircrafts and parts of the parapet of the roof.
iii. Commercial towers for advertisements providing that it should go well with the
regulations and the conditions that are approved by the concerned
administration concerning this.
iv. The gables and the domes can exceed the limit superior for building height and
the limit superior for the net inner heights and this is for the purposes of
decorative and constructional requirements.
v. In order to get the approval to exceed the heights in the cases that have been
mentioned in the previous section, the following should be observed:
vi. Any part of the establishments which are stated to exceed the height for
residential and commercial purposes should not be used except bill boards.
vii. The height should not exceed the required value to do the job according to what
the committee of building license decides and it should not be put in danger the
air traffic or it should not damage the neighborhood.
Article (8): The limit inferior for the areas of the rooms:
The area of any floor or the dimensions of any room from the rooms of the building should
not be less than the following:
The limit inferior The limit inferior
for the floor area for the dimension
- The shop 120 square feet 8 feet

- The office 100 square feet 8 feet
- The room 100 square feet 9 feet
- The kitchen 40 square feet 5 feet
- The bathroom 30 square feet 5 feet
- The lavatory 15 square feet 3 feet
In addition to this, it is acceptable in some of the service rooms such as the maid's room and the janitor's
room that the floor area can be (70) square feet and the limit inferior for the dimension is (7) feet.
Article (9) : Passages:

The limit inferior for the net width of the public passages in buildings should be as the following:
a. Residential and office buildings:
• (6) feet for the plots whose area is more than (2500) square feet.
• (5) feet for the plots whose area is less than (2500) square feet.
b. Residential buildings for workers:
• (6) feet if the rooms are from two sides.
• (4.5) feet if the rooms are from one side.
c. Commercial passages:
• (10) feet
d. The passages between classes in an educational buildings ( schools, colleges and universities)
• (10) feet if the passages are opened to the classes from two sides.
• (8) feet if the passages are opened to the classes from one side.
e. The buildings of public usages( it is not mentioned in the previous sections):
• It is according to the nature of the usage with a limit inferior (3) feet.
f. The limit inferior for the net width of the inner passages between rooms in the apartments and
offices should not be less than (3) feet.
g. It is stated to decrease the width of some passages in the buildings that have a small spaces and
where the form of the ground and its dimensions do not allow having passages with the required
width according to the above sections.
h. It stated to put stall in the commercial passages, in this case, there should be passages with width (5)
feet on the two sides of the stall providing that these stalls are not connected or interconnected
with each other for more than (20) feet and the distance among them is not less than (10) feet and
the width of the stall is not more than (6) feet.
i. The limit inferior for the net height of the passage must not be less than:
• (8) feet for apartments, offices and worker's buildings.
• In the special buildings, the limit inferior for the height of the passages should be according to
the nature of use where its limit inferior should not be less than (8) feet.
Article (10): Open galleries:

In the buildings that are overlooking the street and in which it is decided to build open galleries in it,
it should be provided with beams in front of the frontage of those buildings with observing the
following conditions:
a. The design and the construction of beams should be according to the feature, the form and
the height which is settled by the competent administration or according to the model
designed for this purpose.
b. Unused decorative projections inside the open galleries is stated according to the following
conditions:
i. The decoration and the ornamental elements should be: (1) feet and (6)
inches with a height that is not less than (9) feet from the floor of the open
gallery.
ii. The endings of windows, windowsills and the shoulder shafts should not be
more than (6) inches.
iii. Fixing bill boards, which are intended for this district, should be subject to
the regulations that organize it and which is prevalent in the emirate.
c. The openings of beams should be organized and harmonious.
d. The open gallery should be designed for public crossing and it is not allowed to put any
obstacles or works in it which may prevent or restrain its usage according to the way it
should be used. The continuity of galleries should be observed for the connected buildings
as well as studying its levels in a way that serve public crossing.
Article (11): Withdrawals:

a. The withdrawals of buildings are settled according to the planning conditions and the
system of classifying and economizing land usages.
b. The withdrawal is measured from the boarder of the plot from the neighborhood side
starting from the midline for the track and the next streets.
c. The withdrawal is being applied from the ground floor for all buildings except the
commercial buildings.
d. In commercial buildings, the withdrawal is being applied from the first floor above the
commercial part and starting from the ground floor that is located after the commercial
depth.
e. If the whole ground floor is for commercial usages, the withdrawal in the ground floor
should be (10) feet from the back and lateral neighborhood side if the neighborhood is
not stated for commercial usage from the same side.
f. The building is being discharge from the withdrawal from the side where the required
withdrawal from the limit of piece is (5) feet or less. The areas which have settled the
planning conditions with a withdrawal (5) feet is spared from this.
g. The withdrawal is calculated considering that the average height for one floor is (10)
feet providing that the total height of the building should not be more than (number of
floors × (13) feet) measured from the level of the sidewalk to the ceiling of the top floor.
If the total height is more than that, the real height will be used to calculate the required
withdrawals.
h. The roof floor which is for services is not related to calculating the height when setting
the required withdrawals of the building.
i. It is not stated to build any establishment in the required withdrawals for any building
except electric transformers, arbors and uncovered parking lots.
j. It is not stated to make any decorative or used projection in the withdrawals except the
projections which are stated in article (16) from this list and according to the graphical
conditions.
k. In the plots which are inside the central works area, it is allowed to provide and outer
yard (pocket light) the side of the track instead of the required withdrawals providing
that its depth is equal to the required withdrawals and its side which is parallel to the
track is not less than (30) feet . These plots are allowed not to withdraw if there are no
outer openings for the rooms and the offices.
l. The limit superior for the required withdrawal for any building is (25) feet no matter
how high the building is.
m. The limit inferior for the withdrawal for all buildings, no matter how high the building is,
from the cemetery side should not be less than (10) feet.
n. Inner withdrawal between any two main building inside one plot should not be less than
the sum of the required withdrawal for the two building from the neighborhood side
except the industrial buildings where the withdrawal in it is (10) feet and the inner
withdrawal between a main building and any extension inside the plot should not be less
than (10) feet.
Article (12): Natural light openings and vents:

a. Any part of a window that can be opened or any door that is designed to be opened is
considered as a light opening and a vent. In all cases, the opening which is connected
with the outer air should be in its whole area and therefore any opening which is
connected with a mechanical device (air-conditioner) is not considered a vent by the
regulation of this list.
b. All the rooms, the halls, the passages, the stairs, the kitchens and the bathrooms of any
building should have the natural lighting and ventilation which is settled in the next
article as well as secondary ventilation or discontinuous ventilation when increasing the
depth of the room three times its width.
c. When any entrance or passage needs light and ventilation through the adjacent room,
its area should be added to the area of that room to decide the required amount of
ventilation.
d. Natural lighting and ventilation can be replaced by the unnatural lighting and ventilation
for lavatories, bathrooms and the small preparation rooms which it's area is less than
the limit inferior for the kitchen area as well as the passages, the halls, and the rooms of
some special projects which require this on one condition which is getting the approval
of the competent administration concerning this and providing the conditions of
mechanical lighting and ventilation.
e. The luminous intensity in the different parts of the building should be according to the
approved standard specifications; also the inner air in the building should be congruous
with the quality and the quantity which are settled in the environmental and sanitary
regulations which are prevalent in the emirate.
f. The kitchens can be part of the space of the living room on one condition which is to
provide the required ventilation according to the regulations of this list for the living
room from the part which is adjacent to the kitchen according to the conditions which
are settled by the competent administration.
g. It is not allowed to make light opening and vents onto the neighborhood unless after
achieving the required withdrawals according to article (11) from this list.
Article (13): The openings:

a. Windows:
1. In every room ( residential or not ), every stairwell or kitchen or hall or
passage there should be a lighting opening and a vent whose total area is
not less than (10%) from the floor area of the room which is for residence
and (5%) from the floor area of services ( kitchens, bathrooms, lavatories,
storehouses and stairs).
2. It is allowed to make openings for lighting and ventilation according to the
previously mentioned rates in the previous section in the ceiling providing
that these openings are connected with the outer air directly and this part
which has openings are not for sleeping. This openings should be supplied
with mechanical opening devices on (3) feet height from the floor of the
room.
3. In the main stairs of the building there should be lighting openings and
vents in every floor starting from the first floor to the last one.
4. There should be vents and natural lighting openings in storehouses and
workshops with a rate that is not less than (5%) of the floor area. The doors
of the storehouses are part of this ventilation and lighting.
b. Doors: The limit inferior for the width of the door is according to the following:
Bedrooms and offices: (90) centimeters
• Kitchens: (80) centimeters
• Bathrooms: (70) centimeters
• Commercial shops: (100)centimeters within a glass frontage
• Workshops and warehouses : (300)centimeters
• Stairs: (100) centimeters.
c. The following should be observed when making openings in buildings:
1. Using falling protectors (railing) in balconies, porches and roofs, at the
points of different levels and the heights which are more than (3) feet.
2. Outer doors should not be opened in the repeated floors to the outer air or
the stairs directly.
3. The height of windowsills should not be less than (3) feet unless there is
balconies and porches in front of these windows from the outside or if there
are falling protectors (railing) with a height not less than (3) feet.
4. The engineer should study the height of falling protectors (railings) in a way
that goes with the quality and the height of windows and balconies.
Article (14): The skylight and the yard:

a. The conditions of natural lighting and ventilation in the places that overlook a
skylight is as follows:
i. Bathrooms: The area of the skylight should not be less than (9) square feet
and its width is not less than (3) feet, these conditions about natural lighting
and ventilation can be exceeded, if there is an integrated system for
mechanical lighting and ventilation according to the specifications and
conditions approved by the competent administration. It is also allowed to
exceed the conditions of natural lighting providing that there is artificial
lighting according to the specifications and conditions approved by the
ii. Closed kitchens: The dimensions of the skylight should not be less than (10
×10) feet no matter how the height of the building providing that there
should be mechanical ventilation according to the specifications and
conditions approved by the competent administration, if building height is
more than a ground floor and 7 floors.
iii. Open kitchens: It is stated to make kitchens which are opened to halls
without providing any vents for this kitchen and for all building heights
providing that its location should be opposite to the main vent for halls with
providing mechanical ventilation according to the specifications and the
conditions approved by the competent administration.
iv. Preparing kitchens: Except apartments which are not stated to have such
kitchens, the area of the skylight should not be less than (9) square feet for
and (3) feet for any side of its sides or providing mechanical ventilation
according to the specifications and the conditions approved by the
b. The area of the inner yard is different according to the state of the rooms or the
offices that are overlooking it according to the following:
i. If all the rooms of a residential unit or offices derive their lighting and
ventilation from the same yard, the area of the yard should not be less than
(½)2 of the overall height for the floors which have these rooms starting
from the floor of the first floor with a limit inferior (15) feet for any of its
sides and (225) f 2 for the area.
ii. If some rooms which are overlooking the inner yard is from an office or a
residential unit where the remaining rooms are overlooking a road or a track
or a yard or a legal withdrawal, the area of the yard should not be less than
(⅓)2 of the height for the floors which have these rooms and with a limit
inferior (10) feet for any side and its overall area is not less than (100)
square feet.
iii. If the yard in one floor is overlooking a kitchen or kitchens from one
residential unit or more and a room or rooms (except servants' rooms) from
one residential unit or more or from an office which looks out to a street or
a yard or a track or a withdrawal , the area of the yard should not be less
than( ½height ×⅓height ) for the floors which have these rooms starting
from the floor of the first floor with a limit inferior (10 ×15) feet.
iv. In the apartment whose area is more than (1600) square feet, there can be a
natural lighting and ventilation for the servant's rooms throughout a skylight
whose dimensions are not less than (10 ×10) feet no matter how height of
the building is on one condition which is providing mechanical ventilation
according to the specifications and the conditions approved by the
competent administration if the height is more than a ground floor and
(7)floors or from any other yard without affection its measurements.
c. The measurement of the yard in bungalows should be less than (15x15) feet.
d. Each skylight or inner yard in the building, no matter how its area is, should be
supplied with an entrance suitable from its floor level to guarantee its maintenance
and cleaning it. Small skylights should be supplied with a size (4 ×6) feet and less
with an iron ladder which is fixed on one side for maintenance purposes.
e. Every skylight or yard should be supplied with the required equipments to drain rain
water.
f. It is observed that all skylights and yards can be opened from top and in the case of
putting any ceiling or any construction on it, the following conditions and
requirements should be followed:
i. If the ceiling is transparent or half transparent, there should be lateral
openings that are connected with the outside and the overall area for these
openings should not be less than the area of the yard or the skylight.
ii. If the ceiling is not transparent, there should be lateral openings which are
connected with the outside and its overall area is not less than one time and
half from the area of the yard or the skylight.
iii. The ceiling can extend in a way that exceed the area of skylight and the yard
for a distance which is not more than half the height of the opening which is
on its sides.
iv. These openings should be supplied with suitable devices in order to be
opened and closed.
Article (15): Mechanical lighting, ventilation and central air-conditioning:

a. If there is a difficulty in providing natural lighting and ventilation in some
buildings such as cinemas, halls, malls , restaurants, special building, public
and private buildings for services, It is allowed to be replaced by artificial
lighting and ventilation providing that:
1. In these buildings there should be central air-conditioning and
electric lighting in all the parts of the building.
2. The ventilation and air-conditioning system should be
congruous with the specifications, the conditions and the
system which are approved by the competent administration.
3. The engineer should take the responsibility for the
calculations of lighting, central air-conditioning and electric
ventilation according to the specifications approved by the
competent administration and he has to clarify it on detailed
plans and on the outer cover of the plans.
4. The area and the specifications of skylights, where the
kitchens with the mechanical ventilation are over looking it,
should be according to what was mentioned in the previous
article concerning the conditions of lighting and ventilation in
the usages that overlook the skylight and the inner yard.
5. The conditions and the specifications which are mentioned in
the thermal insulation system which is approved by the
competent administration should be applied in the
calculations of ventilation, air-conditioning and lighting.
Article (16): Porches and projections in the street:

a. It is stated to have a projection for a porch which extends along or to a part of the frontage
of the building which is built on the boarders of the plot and this is according to the
following conditions:
1. The porch should be in the first floor and the floors above it.
2. The limit inferior for the net height of the porch from the smoothed paving
stone should not be less than (10) feet.
3. The distance between the porch and the boarders of the neighborhood
which is next to the building should not be less than (3) feet.
4. It is not stated to have any projection of a porch on a track or a street where
its width is less than (30) feet or within the limits inferior for skylights, yards
and withdrawals.
5. It is not stated to make constructional projections for leaning walls, bases,
the foundations of the buildings and the fences outside the boarders of the
plot.
b. It is stated to close and join the projecting porches from the boarders of the plot to the
inner area of the building according to the following conditions:
1. The width of the street should not be less than (30) feet.
2. The percentage of the part which is being closed or joined should not be
more than (50%) of the frontage area.
3. The area of the rooms without calculating the area of the porch should not
be less than the limit inferior for the areas of the rooms.
4. It is not stated to make additional projections on the part which is closed or
joined unless the rate of the projection allows this.
5. Projections should be in the first floor and the floors above it.
6. Remarkable frontages should be presented.
c. Projections on the frontages of the buildings are stated according to the following:
1. (6) feet projection if the width of the road is (60) feet and more.
5. (1) feet and 6 inches unused decorative projection if the width of the road is
(20) feet and more.
6. (1) feet and unused decorative projection if the width of the road or the
track is (20) feet and less.
7. (3) feet unused decorative projection for the parapet of the roof in
residential villas.
8. Unused decorative projection in the withdrawals of residential villa with a
rate (1) feet as limit superior on a height which is higher than the windowsill.
9. Unused decorative projection with a limit superior (8) inches inside the
yards and skylights whose dimensions are more than (15×15) feet.
10. Unused decorative projection inside the open galleries according to article
(10) in this list.
Article (17): Arbors:

a. It is stated to construct arbors around building in the empty spaces
in the land and in the withdrawals where the percentage of
emptiness is not less than (50%) of the sum of its area and its height
should not be more than (10) feet.
b. It is stated to construct arbors for covering swimming pools on the
rooftop providing that its withdrawal should not be less than (5)
from the boarders of the building, its projection is not more than (5)
feet from the limits of the swimming pool and its height should not
be more than (10) feet above the level of the swimming pool.
Article (18): The Cellar floor (underground):

The condition to build a cellar floor is as the following:
a. The highest height for the level of the ceiling of the cellar should not be more than (3) feet and
(6) inches measured from the edge of the road and (4) feet 6 inches for residential villas.
b. Connecting the cellar with stairs from within the building should be observed with the necessity
to provide a secondary exit for emergencies.
c. Providing ventilation and lighting in the cellar floor according to the conditions which were
mentioned in article (14) and article (15) from this list.
d. It is not allowed to use the cellar floor separately from the main building.
e. The cellar floor can't be used for residential , offices and commercial usages and it is only used
for the following purposes:
i. Parking lots , and the special service which are related to the buildings (electricity
room, phone, pumps and the like)
ii. The services which are related to people (laundry room, drying cloths, swimming
pools, health club and their services, children's games and athletics).
f. It is observed not to have any projection for any part of the cellar or its special foundations
outside the boarders of the plot.
g. When making leaning walls next to digging sites, it is observed not to use the land of the
neighborhood unless after getting a written approval from the owner and the competent
administration and also it should not project outside the boarders of the plot in the streets and the
tracks unless after presenting its structural design in order to be approved by the concerned
administration and taking the required approvals.
h. Observing when performing digging, casting for the floors of the cellars, water exudation and
casting the vertical foundations all safety conditions for the neighborhood establishments.
Article (19): The mezzanine:

a. It is stated to build a mezzanine whose area is (100%) of the area of the ground floor in the
plots which are stated to build a mezzanine floor according to the system of classifying and
b. It is stated to use the mezzanine floor separately according to the usage in the repeated floor
(offices, residential) or for service purposes related to the building. In this case these usages
are dealt with in the same way when dealing with the repeated floor concerning the
conditions of construction and planning.
c. It is stated to use the mezzanine floor commercially and separately with a percentage (100%)
and this is when using the ground floor and the mezzanine floor as a mall. In this case, there
should be an inner initial connection and electric stairs between the two floors or elevators
with a glass frontage whose capacity is not less than (10) people in one elevator.
d. It is stated to use the mezzanine floor separately with a percentage (100%) if it is used as
parking lots or complement to the main usage if the whole building is for one use only.
e. It is not stated to build another mezzanine within the ground floor if the original floor of the
mezzanine is separated and used separately.
f. It is not stated to build porches or projections or balconies in the mezzanine floor.
Article (20): the rooftop:
a. It is stated to add a rooftop above the top floor in all buildings except residential villas,
industrial establishments and buildings and the workers' residence.
b. The rooftop is for building the rooms of elevators equipments, water tanks and the rooms of
pumps, electricity, phones, some decorative sunshades (arbors) and swimming pools. It is
also stated to built gymnasium and its related services to serve only the inhabitants of the
building if the area of the land is more than (2500) square feet.
1. In all cases, the area of the constructions should not be more than (10%)
from the sum of the total area for the repeated floors with a limit superior
(10000) square feet where its withdrawal is not less than (5) feet from the
boarder of the building. The swimming pool is excluded from the withdrawal
condition and it does not count in the percentage from the establishments
area.
c. It is stated to build a swimming pool on the rooftop with arbors related to it and it is not
calculated from the percentage of (10%) which is settled in the previous section from this
article.
d. It is observed that the height of the swimming pool should not be more than (8) feet from the
level of the roof and the height of the gymnasium should not be more than (12) feet.
e. It is stated for the elevator to reach the service of the rooftop.

f. It is not stated to put any constructions above the level of the ceiling of the rooftop or the
level of the swimming pool where the staircase and the elevator shaft with their limit
inferior, water tanks, the equipments of central air-conditioning and the parts which were
mentioned in section (k) from article (7) from this list are excluded from this.
1. In all cases, the locations of the equipments and tanks should be settled on
the rooftop. Also, the detailed plans, which are required for processing
architectural frontages in a way that does not deform the general view,
should be presented.
g. It is stated to put billboards on the roof in accordance to the conditions which are mentioned
in the regulations of billboards which are prevalent in the emirate.
h. It is not allowed to use the establishments on the rooftop for commercial purposes by any
mean and it can only be used by the inhabitants of the building
Article (21): Stairs:

a. Each building which consists of more than one floor and the area of one
floor is not more than (5000) square feet or (15000) square feet for the
whole building should be supplied with one main stairs as a limit
inferior and if the area of one floor increases from (5000) to (10000)
square feet or from (15000) to (30000) square feet for the whole
building, there should be a creation for additional stairs for such
increase. The distance between the entrance of any apartment and the
stairs should not be more than (30) meters.
b. The net width for the stairs is estimated depending on the calculation
of the wideness of exists. In all case, the width should not be less than
(3.5) feet in residential buildings and offices and (5) feet in the buildings
of public usage, the width of the landing should not be less than the
width of the same stairs.
c. The limit superior for the number of steps which are continuous on one
side should not exceed (14) steps and the limit superior for the height
of one step should not be more than (7) inches and its width is not less
than (11) inches. The measurements of the stairs are settled according
to the following equations : "Twice the height of one step + the width of
one step= 60 to 65 centimeters." Circulative stairs and the stairs which
are designed in a special way are excluded from this.
d. The measurements of the steps should be identical in height and width.
e. The limit inferior for the net height above any step is (8) feet.
f. The main stairs in the residential, office and public buildings should be
made of incombustible materials (except villas) also the natural
ventilation and lighting should be available in stairs in a sufficient way
and this is through windows that can be opened directly to the outer air
or to a skylight. The stairs of the towers which have more than ten
floors are excluded from the condition of natural lighting and
ventilation after providing mechanical and electric lighting and
ventilation according to the specification and conditions of safety and
firefighting.
g. There should be a falling protector on the empty side of the stairs
(railing) with a height not less than (3) feet and the width of the
openings is not more than (13) centimeters. If the width of the stairs is
more than (7) feet , there will be an additional barrier in the middle
(one or more according to the need)
h. When choosing the locations of the stairs, the following specifications
should be observed:
- It can be reached from any point in the building and it
should be as close as possible to the streets or the tracks.
- The distance between the door staircase and the furthest
point in a floor should not be more than (90) feet in the
crowded buildings and here the distance is measured
according to length of the actual lane of the road.
i. If the stairs is directly after a door, there should be a distance in order
to separate them. This distance is not less then (3) feet in order to
prevent tumbling or falling.
j.
The exits of stairs in all building and floors should be supplied with
distinctive signs which shows their locations
k. In the case of emergency stairs, the following additional conditions
should be applied:
1. The stairs should be separated with a firewall and a door
which prevent smoke with a resistance degree which is not
less than (1) hour where it should be automatically closed
and according to the stipulations of safety and fire
prevention.
2. There should be sufficient natural and unnatural lighting in
the emergency stairs and it should be supplied with natural
vent whose area is not less than (4.5) square feet in one
floor.
l. Fire escapes in all buildings should be supplied with distinctive signs
that indicate their locations and they should have the following
conditions:
Minimum number the net minimum
for exits width for the stairs
1. Minimum number (200) person 2 (3) feet (6) inches
2. Minimum number (300) person 2 (4 ) feet
3. Minimum number (500) person 2 (5) feet
m. The number of steps for fire escapes which are continuous on the same
side should not be more than (20) steps and not less than (3) steps and
the height of one step should not be more than (20) centimeters.
n. All the conditions and the specifications of safety and fire prevention
which are approved by the competent administration when designing
the stairs in all its shapes.
Article (22): Electric elevators:

a. The building which have many floors should be supplied with electric elevators according
to the following conditions:
i. In the buildings whose height is more than (3) floors, it should be provided with
electric elevators with sufficient capacity according to the technical and standard
specifications and to the conditions of safety and fire prevention which are
approved by the competent administration.
ii. In public buildings, there should be electric elevators or moving staircase with
sufficient capacity according to the technical and standard specifications and to the
conditions of safety and fire prevention which are approved by the competent
administration.
iii. In malls which consist of more than one floor, it should be provided with electric
elevators that have a glass frontage and its capacity is not less than (10) people for
one elevator, or electric moving staircases according to the approved standard
specifications and to the approval of the committee of building license.
b. The number and the capacity of elevators in the building should match with the number and
the area of floors and with the horizontal and vertical dimensions.
c. The capacity of any elevators should not be less than (4) people according to the technical
and standard specifications which are related to the elevators which are approved by the
d. The locations of elevators should be chosen in a way that makes them
easily reached from any point in the building and they should be in apparent places and
close to one of the stairs.
a) The rooms for the equipments of the elevators which are built on roof tops should have
the following:
1. The dimensions of the room should be according to the standard
specifications of the company which manufactures elevators.
2. The room should be supplied with a good system for air-
conditioning.
3. It should be supplied with a firmly closed door and all other openings should
be firmly closed.
4. All wires and cables that are related to operation should be hidden and
made from good and rustproof materials.
5. There should be suitable coverage for all pulleys and moving parts.
b) The lift shaft should have the following conditions:
1. The dimensions of the lift shaft should be according to the technical
specifications of the company which manufactures the elevators that are
used.
2. The parts which are exposed to water from the lift shaft should be treated
with insulating materials for water leakage.
c) Elevators should be supplied with electric closing system, a warning system when
exceeding the maximum load and emergency landing system. Sufficient mechanical
ventilation should be provided as well as suitable inner lighting .Abiding by the
requirements of elevator systems that are mentioned in the environment regulations
and vocational safety which are prevalent in the emirate.
d) There should be directorial and warning signs inside elevators related to smoking
prevention, setting the number of people and the allowed weights as well as putting
signs next to each door warning not to use the elevator if there is a fire.
e) All elevators should be subject to regular checking to make sure of its competence and the
owner should get an annual worthiness certificate from the company which is approved
by the concerned administration.
Article (23): Ramps:
a. Ramps can be considered as one of the required fire escapes in the building.
b. The slope of ramps which are for cars should not be more than (1) to (10) and the
competent administration can adjust the rate to (1 to 8) whenever there is convincing
technical reasons on which the committee of building license approves.
c. The ground of ramps should be rough or equipped in a way that prevents slippage and
the angles of columns and the next walls should be covered with rubber angles. Those
ramps should be protected from any projections or establishments that can restrain
moving on it or using it in a right and safe way.
d. The dimensions of ramps should be according to the dimensions that will be
mentioned in article (25) from this list for inner roads and according to the width of
the entrances and exits.
e. Ramps should be supplied with reflective mirrors with suitable measurements to
clarify visibility at turning points and the places for changing the directions and in the
places that do not have enough visual field.
f. The net height above any point on the ramps should not be less than (8) feet
measured to the vertical direction on the ramp.
g. Natural or mechanical ventilation and lighting should be supplied according to the
standard specifications which are used for all the parts of ramps and it should be
equipped with all the necessary fittings to drain rain water.
Article (24): Parking lot:

a. There should be places for parking (covered or uncovered) inside the boarders of the
plot on which the building is.
b. The number, the dimensions, the specifications and the designs of parking lots should
be according to the standard specifications that will be mentioned in article (24) from
this list.
c. There should not be any modification in the number, the dimensions, the
specifications and the designs of parking lots which are approved in the construction
license unless after getting the approval from the competent administration .Each of
the contractor and the engineer are responsible for any change that the competent
administration did not already approve to even if these modifications are acceptable
from the technical and geometrical aspect. The owner also is responsible for any
modification that happens after issuing the license of building construction which is
not in advance approved by the competent administration.
d. The competent administration can ask to do a study on the traffic effect of the
projects which leads to an increase or a huge effect on traffic (projects that are
performed according to special approvals, special projects, malls and assemblages).
e. If there are public parking lots next to any plot, this does not exclude the plot from
providing parking lots in it according to the regulations of this list.
f. Abiding by the locations of cars exits or entrances according to the requirements of
the concerned administration and according to the planning conditions, if there is
something which locates these places on the map of planning.
g. Entrances and exist for cars should not be put on sidewalk or on the parts that are for
parking lots or public benefit unless it is unfeasible to enter from the streets or for any
technical reasons on which the concerned administration approved.
h. It is allowed to exceed the limit superior for the ceiling level of the cellar which is
settled by the regulations of this list in the case of dedicating the cellar floors and the
ground floor as parking lots providing that the height of the ground floor must not
exceed the settled height in this list.
i. The plans for road works which are enclosed with the construction license application
should include the following plans as a limit inferior:
i. Setting out plan: which shows streets, roads, sidewalk and the neighborhood
which surrounds the plot as well as the levels of tracks, existing streets, the
levels of the plot and the neighborhood, areal references, the entrances and the
exits of cars, traffic direction in the streets which surround the plot and any
traffic signs or crossroads or turning points or obstacle that affects the
entrances and the exits of cars as well as street lambs.
ii. The plans of parking lots for all floors
iii. The conditions, the specifications and the instructions of traffic, the signs and
the necessary controlling devices.
iv. Any other details which are required by the concerned administration.
v. The calculations of parking lots.
vi. The studies of traffic effect. (when it is required)
j. If it is not feasible to use ramps to get to the different floors of parking lots, It is
possible to use electric elevators for cars after getting in advance an approval from the
concerned administration and using the ground floor and the cellar completely for
parking lots.
k. Natural lighting and ventilation should be provided and if this is not feasible, electric
lighting with active mechanical ventilation system should be provided according to the
standard specifications approved by the competent administration, should be
provided.
l. The necessary fittings to drain rain water at the end of the ramps of entrances and
exits. Ground drainages and suitable slopes should be made in the grounds of parking
lots floors.
m. If there is a contradiction after issuing the construction license between the entrances
and the exits of the neighborhood or the traffic or the surrounding streets, the
competent administration has the right to ask to modify the entrances and the exits in
a way that goes with the existing state and the municipality does not take any
responsibility for this modification.
n. The ground of the parking lots should be covered with a suitable concrete layer which
can be easily cleaned.
o. The plans which show the way to protect diggings should be presented to the
competent administration in order to be approved if there are digging works on the
boarders of the plot from the neighborhood side. If there are digging works from the
side of the street or the track, it should be presented to the concerned administration
p. Presenting a plan for the outer sidewalks surrounding the plot showing the levels, the
dimensions and the areal reference in order to be approved by the concerned
administration. It is observed to pave the track which surrounds the building to the
middle with a level which is more than (15 centimeters) from the level of the street.
The tiles which are used for sidewalks should be settled according to the conditions of
the competent administration.
Article (25): The technical conditions for parking lots:

a. The different floors of parking lots should be supplied with ground signs and traffic
signs which are fixed in visible places showing the direction of getting in and out and
the traffic inside the parking lots as well as putting reflective mirrors on the places that
do not have enough visual field.
b. Parking lots should be supplied with concrete fenders for wheels to stop them from
exceeding the front limits of parking lots.
c. All columns and walls which are next to the movement of cars should be supplied with
suitable rubber angles for prevention during the movement of cars. These angles are
not necessary if there are sidewalks that prevent its exposure to the movement of
cars.
d. The places for parking lots and their numbers should be settled according to the
approved plans by the competent administration
e. The limit inferior for the number of parking lots, that should be available in buildings,
should be as the following:
1. Residential buildings:
o Residential Villa
one parking lot for each residential villa or bungalow.
o Apartments
one parking lot for each flat whose area is (1600) square
feet or less
Two parking lots for every flat whose area is more than
(1600) square feet.
o One parking lots for each studio.

o (1.2) parking lots for every flat in the places that have special
planning system
2. Offices:
• One parking lot for every (750) square feet from the overall
area of the office.
3. Commercial usages:
area of the commercial usages( shops, galleries,etc)
area which is used in malls or wherever there is an electric
stairs.
4. In the buildings which are used completely as malls or the like as retail trade
where their area is more than (10000) square feet, there should be
parking lots in front of them with a percentage that is not less than (30%)
from the required number of parking lots. This can be replaced by
dedicating the ground floor completely as parking lots.
5. Hotels:
• One parking lot is for every (5) hotel rooms.
• One parking lot is for every (500) square feet from the areas
of restaurants.
• One parking lot is for every (200) square feet from the areas
of halls and galleries.
• One parking lot is for every (2) hotel suites.
• One parking lot is for every (500) square feet from hotel
offices and shops.
• One parking lot is for rach hotel apartment.
• One parking lot is for every hotel room if it has a kitchen or
preparation rooms.
6. Schools and educational buildings:
• One parking lot is for each class.
• One parking lot is for every (500) square feet from
the administrative area.
• One parking lot for one bus for every (3) classes.
• Old schools which were existed before 1990 which
has public outer parking lots are excluded from this
if there are modifications and additions and after
performing special studies and the approval of the
7. Mosques:
- According to the special condition of the mosque.
8. Collective residence:
- According to the planning conditions
9. Cinema and theatres:
- One parking lot for every (3) seats.
10. The halls of weddings and parties:
- According to the planning conditions.
11. Entertaining usages, special building and worker residence:
- According to the special studies for each project.
f. The plots which are in the central works area( old Dubai) according to the map of
specifying usages are excluded from providing parking lots except the following cases:
1. If the number of floors is more than the stated number in the
area system according to any special approval, there should be
parking lots for the additional floors which are surplus to the
system and according to the conditions of parking lots in other
places.
2. In the case of building a mall, there should be parking lots for
the area of the malls according to the special parking lot
conditions in malls.
g. If the plot is on two streets; one is a highway and the other is a byway, it is only
allowed to have entrances and exits for cars on the byway or according to what the
competent administration decide.
h. When setting the locations of entrances and exits for cars, the following should be
observed:
1. There should be separated entrances and exits for cars (ramps) for each
floor from the floors of parking lots. The concerned administration can
allow replacing it with electric elevator if there are technical reasons that
require this.
2. They should be on a distance which is not less than (50) feet from the edge
of the chamfering angle of the ground. The competent administration can
decrease this distance to (30) feet if there are technical reasons that
require this.
3. They should be as far as possible with a distance approved by the

committee of building license away from any crossroads and it should not
look out to a crossroad of two streets that has the shape (T) in the case of
Single Street.
4. They should not conflict with the entrances and the exits of the buildings
which exist in the neighborhood.
5. Their locations should be chosen in a way that guarantees a safe crossing
in the streets that surround the parking lots by putting them as far as
possible from crossroads and highways.
i. The limit inferior for the width of the entrances of parking lots and the inner roads
should be as the following:
1. (10) feet (3) meters only one way traffic.
2. (20) Feet (6) meters two ways traffic.
3. In the small plots or the ones which have strong technical
circumstances, the competent administration can accept one
traffic passage, with a width (10) feet (3 meters), to allow cars
to enter and exit after providing traffic light and an electronic
system in order to control the traffic and applying all the
stipulations of the competent administration in coordination
with the concerned administration.
j. The limit inferior for the dimensions of the hidden parking lots and the width of
the traffic passage in the hidden parking lots should be as the following:
1. If the parking lots are parallel with the road, the limit inferior for the
dimensions of the parking lots is (2.5 × 6) meters and the limit inferior for
the width of the road is (3) meters.
2. If the parking lots are on (45) degrees angle to the road direction, the limit
inferior for the dimensions of the parking lots is (2.5 ×5.65)meters and the
limit inferior for the width of the road is (3.25) meters.
3. If the parking lots are on (60) degrees angle to the road direction, the limit
inferior for the dimensions of the parking lots is (2.5 ×5.85) meters and the
limit inferior for the width of the road is ( 3.75) meters.
4. If the parking lots are vertical to the road direction , the limit inferior for
parking lots is (2.5 × 5.5) meters and the limit inferior for the width of the
road is (5.5) meters.
k. The competent administration can decrease the depth of the parking lots not
more than (40) centimeters, if there are strong technical reasons that require this and
which are approved by the committee of building license.
l. The limit inferior for the net height for parking lots is (8) feet and the limit superior
for the height is (10) feet unless the parking lots are a part of a floor in which another
activity is being practiced, here the height of the floor can be combined according to
the limit superior for the approved height for that floor.
Article (26): Environmental conditions:

a. The different environmental influences should be observed: (weather conditions,
sunlight, the nature of the land, the neighborhood, the level of noise, the
environmental pollutant and other environmental influences) as well as the conditions
and the specifications that are mentioned in the list of thermal insulation used when
arranging the designs of different buildings.
b. The engineer should has the approval of the environment administration in the
muncipility on the projects that include usages which cause directly or indirectly
environment pollution whatever its kind is and he has to apply all the conditions
related to environment protection which are approved by the competent
administration.
c. The competent administration has the right to ask to observe the environmental
influences including modifying or canceling any issued construction license if the
building or its usage causes environmental hazards.
d. Thermal and sound insulation should be used in ceilings and walls in order to
rationalize energy consumption and to resist the environment factors according to the
technical specifications related to thermal insulation which are approved by the
e. The engineer should study the directions of sunlight and employ architectural
elements to control its negative effects and he should study wind directions and using
them for the benefit of the building.
f. The engineer should choose the materials which do not damage the environment and
public health or deform the general view of the city such as temporary establishments
whether during or after using them according to what the competent administration
define.
g. The engineer should observe public health conditions inside or outside the building
through studying the movement and the amount of ventilation and lighting, sunlight
and shadows and choosing the materials and the paints and the like.
h. The engineer should use insecticide approved to control insects including white ants in
the floors of the ground floor and wherever it is required.
i. The engineer should observe the peculiarity and the concealment when arranging the
different designs for buildings. There should be fences with a suitable height and
designs to which the competent administration approve separate between the
different lands.
j. The engineer has to adhere to the regulations of environment protection in the
emirate concerning reusing drainage water and getting rid of it, the supervision of air
pollution, vocational health, swimming pools, the safety of children's games inside the
buildings, controlling noise and the systems of nature reserves.
k. It is not stated to remove or cut any of the evergreen trees that exist inside the
boarders of the land unless after getting a written approval that requires this from the
administration of agriculture and public parks in the municipality.
l. The limit superior for the noise coming from any devices or works should not be more
than (55) decibel from (7) a.m. till (8) p.m. and it should not be more than (45) decibel
from (8) p.m. till (7) a.m.
m. It is not stated to takedown or remove or modify buildings and the architectural
archeological elements. Before starting any construction works or taking down these
buildings, you should consult the concerned administrations and the approval of the
competent administration should be got.
n. The engineer has to stop working and immediately inform the municipality when
finding any relics or archeological sites or when damaging service lines or the buildings
or the streets or the surrounding environment.
o. The engineer has to make sure of providing the necessary conditions to control the
harmful environmental effects during carrying out works in the location from where:
1. Abiding by working appointments according to what the competent
administration has settled.
2. It is not allowed to work in the sites of constructions after (8) p.m. and it is not
allowed to start working before (6) a.m. in the inhabited areas. The concerned
administration can allow to exceed the time if there are reasons that require
this.
3. Taking the essential and the necessary means to control the noise level coming
from the equipments and the machines that are operating in the site and
abiding by the sound level which is stated.
4. Taking the essential and necessary means to control dust and soil emission
through the following means:
• Spraying the soil and the locations with water when they are exposed to
dust excitation.
• Covering the entrances and the places for the movement of cars with
suitable materials or spraying them continuously with water to prevent
dust emission.
• Preventing rubbles throwing from top floors directly without using
preventive barriers.
• Taking the necessary precautions when moving and unloading
construction materials.
5. Taking the essential and the necessary means to control gas and smoke emission
coming from the equipments and the machines which are used in the working
sites and it should be kept in the stated level.
6. Taking the necessary precautions in the working sites to keep the cleanliness of
the location and the safety of the surrounding environment such as neighboring
buildings, streets, service lines, sidewalks and agriculture. . . . etc.
7. The importation and the storing of construction materials in the site should go
with its area and in a way that does not deform the general view. It is necessary
to store chemical and petroleum materials in confined places that are far from
the direct daily traffic and it should be under permentant supervision in small
amounts.
8. Taking the suitable precaution and putting the necessary schedules for
collecting, separating and storing wastes and rubbles in working sites and then
transporting them to the places of dumping rubbles in a way that prevents it
from pilling in the location or polluting the surrounding environment.
p. 1. The value of thermal transmission factories (U) for surfaces and walls should not be
more than what is in the list of thermal insulation which is approved by the competent
administration.
2. Glass with all its different kinds should be used (normal, double, reflective) in all the
windows of the buildings with their different usages according to what the thermal
insulation list has settled which is approved by the competent administration.
3. Consulting and working with the list of thermal insulation approved by the
competent administration concerning everything that is related to the details of
thermal insulation works.
q. The buildings whose height is more than a ground floor and one floor which include
large areas of glass in the frontages should be supplied with the necessary equipments
and devices to clean the glass from the outside according to what the committee of
building license has decided.
Article (27): The special stipulations for the people of peculiar needs:
a. In public buildings such as markets, malls , mosques, cinemas, theatres, sport stadiums
,public parks and governmental buildings which people visit often, The following
stipulations should be provided as a limit inferior:
1. Ramps with a slope rate that is not more than (1) to (12) at sidewalks, outer
stairs and the points of different levels inside and outside the buildings.
2. Parking lots for the people of peculiar needs with a percentage(1.3)% of the
total number for parking lots where a part from a parking lot is considered a
complete parking lot with a limit superior (10) parking lots with putting all
the necessary instructions.
3. These parking lots should be as close as possible to elevators or to the main
entrances on a distance which is not more than (60) meters and their
measurements should be according to the designed standards which are
approved by the competent administration.
4. Providing suitable spaces for loading and unloading according to the
designed standards for the people of peculiar needs at the main entrances.
5. Providing direct lanes without any obstacles from the parking lots to the
elevators or to the main entrances of the buildings or the establishments.
6. Providing a special lavatory for the people of peculiar needs according to
article (44) from this list and it should be equipped according to the
designed standards which are approved by the competent administration.
The instructions, which lead to it, should be fixed wherever it is needed.
7. One of the elevators should be with a capacity, specifications, dimensions
and equipments that correspond to the international standards for the
people of peculiar needs according to what the committee of building
license decides.
8. Passages should have enough dimensions for the people of peculiar needs
according to the approved standards and providing the accessibility to go in
or out from all doors and get to all the inner and outer elements without any
obstacles that may restrict the movement.
9. In malls which consist of more than one floor, there should be at least one
elevator that corresponds to the standards that are used by the people of
peculiar needs .Electric stairs are not considered a replacement for this
elevator unless it is supplied with the necessary equipments for the people
of peculiar needs
10. Security and safety conditions should be provided for the different groups of
the people of peculiar needs.
b. In the invested building whose total area is more than (50000) square feet, the following
should be provided:
1. Ramps with a slope rate that is not more than (1) to (12) centimeters at
sidewalks, outer stairs and the points of different levels wherever it is inside
and outside the building.
2. One of the elevators and the passages should be in the floors, outer
movement lanes and in parking lots with sufficient specifications and
dimensions to be large enough for the movement of the people of peculiar
needs according to the approved standards.
3. The number for the parking lots which are for the people of peculiar needs
should not be less than (1%) of the total number for parking lots where a
part of it is considered a complete parking lot with a limit superior (5)
parking lots.
4. The measurements for the parking lots should be according to the standards
related to the people of peculiar needs. The parking lots should be close to
the elevators or to the main entrances of the building.
5. Instructions that are related to the parking lots of the people of peculiar
needs should be put wherever it is needed according to what the approved
standards define.
6. The movement lanes for the people of peculiar needs should be direct and
their measurements should correspond to the approved standards and they
do not have any obstacles.
c. In hotels that are classified from the group of three stars or more, the following services
should be provided as a limit inferior for the people of peculiar needs:
1. One hotel room in the first floor if the number of the hotel rooms and suites
is less than(100) and two rooms if it is more than (100)
2. This room should be completely equipped according to the international
standards that are related to the people of peculiar needs concerning the
room dimensions, the door, the spaces surrounding the bed, the medial
rotation places with a diameter not less than (1.5) meters, automatic
opening window and designing a desk, a cupboard, electric keys, an
emergency alarm bell and a chair.
3. The room should be supplied with a bathroom according to the approved
international standards related to the people of peculiar needs concerning
the bathroom seat, bathing tub, the sink, the surrounding spaces,
cupboards, mirrors, the quality of the floor, the doors dimensions and their
movements, the location of the complement elements in the bath and the
locations of the handles of support and help.
4. The room should have one emergency exit which leads directly to outside
the building or to a balcony. Security devices should be provided for the
different groups of the people of peculiar needs in the hotel.
5. One of the elevators should has the specifications which correspond to the
standards related to the people of peculiar needs concerning the
dimensions, the measurements, the location and the height of the control
panel, the opening time and the inner rails.
6. Parking lots should be provided as the following: one parking lot is for every
(75) parking lots out of the total number of parking lots with a limit superior
(5) parking lots. It should be as close as possible to elevators or to the main
entrance of the hotel with supplying them with the necessary directorial
signs whose measurements should be according to the standards related to
the people of peculiar needs.
7. The space for loading and unloading at the main entrance of the hotel
should be according to the standards related to the people of peculiar
needs.
8. Ramps with slope rates that are not more than (1) to (12) centimeters at
sidewalks, outer stairs and the points of different levels inside and outside
the buildings. The necessary warning instructions should be supplied.
9. Direct lanes without obstacles from parking lots and even elevators or the
main entrance of the hotel and the passages should have sufficient width for
the movement of the people of peculiar needs according to the approved
standards and where it is possible to go in or out from all doors and to get to
all the inner and the outer elements without any obstacles that may restrict
his movement.
d. The passages and the ramps that are related to the people of peculiar needs should have
the following conditions:
1. The ramps that are related to the sidewalk should be within the same
sidewalk.
2. If there are two successive ramps, there should be a flat space between
them with measurements according to the standards approved by the
3. All ramps, passages and stairs should be equipped with the necessary
warning signs (roughing, colors) at the points of the beginning and the
end and when reaching to the roads of cars.
4. The rate of the ramp should not be more than (1) to (12).
5. It is not allowed to put any parking lots in front of ramps.
6. The ramps should be on the same direction as the direction of the
pedestrians' movement on the sidewalk.
7. The upper surface of the ramp should be flat and has no holes that
restrict movement.
8. Ramps should be supplied with lateral rail which is solid and protective if
its height is more than (50) centimeters.
9. There should be no fountain holes or sluices in the ramps and the
passages which are related to the people of peculiar needs.
10. The width of the ramp should not be less than (1.20) meters.
11. Passages and ramps should be supplied with stakes and signs for the
pedestrian which show the directions.
12. Passages and ramps should be equipped with solid barriers that prevent
falling at turning points.
13. The rails of the ramps and the stairs that are related to the people of
peculiar needs should extend to (30) centimeters at the points of the
beginning and the end for the ramps and the stairs as well as around
corners.
Article (28): Facilities (electricity, phones, water, sanitary drainage and building services):
a. The engineer should consul the local departments that are
concerned with the services in the emirate to get the
stipulations that should be provided in buildings (electric forces,
phone rooms and other services) as well as knowing and
locating the entrances and the exits of these services before
setting the designs and the plans in their final shape.
b. The spaces of electricity rooms in buildings should have the
following stipulations:
1. The site and the specification for the suggested
electricity room should be approved by the
organization for the electricity and the water of Dubai.
2. The doors of the counters room should be made from
incombustible materials and has vents and there
should be also ventilation fans on one of its walls.
3. Providing the stipulations of security and safety from
fire.
4. The room of electric transformer can be put in the
withdrawals of the building as a public service for the
region.
c. The counters of water and electricity for residential units should
not be more than one water counter and one electricity counter
for each separate residential unit according to the approved
plan. It is not stated to have additional counters for the facilities
in houses, residential villas and the gymnastics on the rooftops
or at building separation or part of it without a license from the
competent administration or separating the first floor from the
ground floor in the houses and the residential villas that have
two floors.
d. All the elements of the building should be supplied with the
necessary electric fittings, phone fittings and television
reception. All the necessary requirements should be provided
such as electricity rooms, phone rooms and the inner or the
outer fittings according to the specifications and the conditions
approved by the concerned local departments in the emirate.
The elements of services are excluded from phone fittings and
television reception.
e. All the materials and the parts that are related to the service
facilities should correspond completely to the conditions and
the specifications approved by the concerned departments.
f. There should be directorial sign at the building entrances and it
should be close to the elevator and in an evident place for all
the buildings that have many floors where the number of flats
or offices is more than (10) ( office or apartment).
g. The places for putting signs should be settled for all shops,
galleries and commercial activities. It is observed that the width
of the signs should not be less than (3) feet according to the
conditions and the specifications which are mentioned in the
prevalent regulations.
h. It is observed not to fix any billboard or write any advertisement
on building or establishment or inside any plot unless after
getting the necessary license from the concerned
administration.
i. Observing when putting any equipments or service devices or
water tanks or satellites, the necessary architectural processing
to prevent deforming the general views of the building.
j. When designing residential units, there should be spaces or

means to hang and dry laundry in a way that prevent it from
emerging to the outside or deforming the general view of the
building.
k. Architectural processing should be performed to the frontages
in order to cover air-conditioning units in a way that prevent
deforming the general view of the building .The distance
between any conditioner and the neighborhood limit should not
be less than (3) feet.
l. All the conditions and the specifications that are mentioned in
the list of thermal insulation should be observed when arranging
the studies and the designs and when executing for the different
buildings.
Article (29): The stipulations of fire prevention and safety from fire:
a. The stipulations of the protection, the safety, the warning and fire fighting should be
available in all buildings according to the rules and the specifications that are approved by
b. Keeping the equipments, warning systems and fire fighting inside the building is the
responsibility of the owner. The tenant is responsible for removing any obstacles in the
emergency passages and for keeping the equipments, warning systems and firefighting in
the part that he has rented with necessity to make sure of the worthiness of the
equipments and not to disconnect electricity from them at any time.
c. It is not allowed to fix any barriers or obstacles directly on the window of the outer
frontages that are above the ground floor if it is not easily opened.
d. Abiding by all the requirements, the conditions and the systems of the public buildings
safety that are mentioned in the regulations of the environment, the health and the
vocational and public safety and the systems of fire prevention which are prevalent in the
emirate.
e. The limit inferior for the number and the width of the building entrances and exits should
correspond to the number and the area of floors, building usage and the standards that
are approved the competent administration.
f. The doors of the stairs, the apartments, the offices and all the facilities and their scraps
should be fire resistant according to the averages that are approved by the competent
administration and they should be smoke impermeable and self-closed.
g. All stairs should be supplied with normal and emergency ventilation and lighting devices
according to the standards approved by the competent administration.
h. All buildings should be supplied with signs, billboards which are self- lightened in all the
passages, the stairs and the inner squares of the building in order to point out to the stairs,
the elevators and the places of exits and emergency.
i. All the buildings whose height is more than (20) floors should be supplied with an airstrip
for vertical aircrafts according to the standards approved by the competent
administration.
j. All the passages that lead to emergency exits should be void of whatever restricts moving
and going out of the building at any time.
Article (30): The additional extensions in residential villas:

a. It is stated to build additional extensions for the residential villa only with a ground height
without a withdrawal from the boarders of the plot and this is for the purpose of different
usages such as a parking lot, servants' room and an outer kitchen but the following should
be observed:
1. The limit superior for the height is (14) feet from the neighborhood side and
(15) feet from the street and the track side. This height can be exceeded for
some special usages and for technical reasons which are decided by the
2. There should be a withdrawal not less than (10) feet between the extensions
and the main building of the villa.
3. The extensions should be put in a tape shape and contiguous to the fence or
with sufficient withdrawal to provide ventilation and lighting for the
commanding elements or to put air-conditioners according to what the
committee of building license decides.
b. If the extensions are built on the boarders of the plot without any withdrawal, air-
conditioners should be put inside.
c. It is stated to make a parking lot contiguous to the neighborhood and the villa without any
withdrawal from the street side.
d. The usage of extensions is for the service purposes only for the main building and it is not
allowed to use it separately or for commercial purposes. It is also stated to use the rooftop
of the extensions to put only water tanks and air-conditioners and not for other purposes.
It is not stated to build main stairs which lead to the rooftop of the extensions that are
contiguous to the neighborhood.
e. In the case of merging the extensions with the main building, the conditions of
withdrawals should be applied starting from the outer boarders of the building after
merging.
f. It is stated to connect the extension with the main building through a ceiled passage with a
width not more than (10) feet with a height that is not more than the height of the
extension.
g. The area of the additional extensions should not be more than (60%) from the area of the
main villa. This percentage can be exceeded when having technical reasons which the
competent administration has agreed on.
Article (31): Workers' residence:

It is stated to build residential assemblages for workers on the plots that are dedicated for this purpose in
accordance to the map supplement with the system of classifying and economizing land usages according to
the following conditions:
a. Settling the area dedicated for each worker in the rooms of worker's residence where (30)
square feet is for one worker. The number of lavatories that are dedicated for them should
be settled where one toilet, one sink and one shower is for every (10) workers. Also the
overall number of workers should be calculated by taking the right number of the workers
in every room.
b. It is stated to build on the boarders of the plot directly without any withdrawal from the
street or the track side unless the opposite of this is mentioned in the system of classifying
and economizing land usages.
c. The number of floors and withdrawals should be according to the map which is
supplement with the system of classifying and economizing land usages in the emirate.
d. The inner withdrawal between buildings should not be less than (20) feet and the limit
inferior for the area of the inner yard is (20×20) feet.
e. The limit inferior for the building ratio should be sufficient for the residence of (50%) of the
number of the workers according to the documents of land assigning as the first phase of
building.
f. It is not stated to open the doors of the rooms directly to the street or the track and the
main entrance should be from inside the plot as the first phase of building.
g. It is stated for the passages of the first floor to emerge with a rate (4.5) feet inside the
withdrawal between the buildings and the outer withdrawals. These passages are not
stated to be closed at the projection.
h. When using metal ceiling or another kind other than reinforced concrete, it should be
covered with suspended ceiling from the inside and with thermal insulating materials
according to the approved specification by the competent administration.
i. It is allowed to build rooms with independent services (not gathered) for the supervisors
where one room is for every (40) workers.
j. There should be one kitchen or more for preparing food as well as dinning rooms that go
with the number of workers providing that the room should contain (⅓) of the total
number of workers at one time as a limit inferior. The design and the furniture of the
kitchen and the dinning room should be according to the sanitary conditions that are in
accordance with the regulations of public health and the vocational safety that are
prevalent in the emirate.
k. There should be a room for trash or an uncovered assemblage for the trash bins inside the
boarders of the plot and this is according to the conditions of trash rooms that are
mentioned in this list. This assemblage can be put in the frontal withdrawal from the street
side.
Article (32): Mosques:

When designing mosques, service elements should be provided according to the kind of the mosque, its
location and the number of the prayers:
Lavatories Sinks Ablution place Residence Parking lot Stopping

Kind
Limit inferior Limit inferior Limit inferior services Limit inferior stands
Residential areas
1 apartment for
( villas):
the imam+
a) Prayer times
3 3 5 1 room for the 8 2
mosque:
worker
Capacity for 150
prayers
1apartment for
the imam+
151 prayers- 300 1apartment for
4 4 8 15 3
prayers the muezzin+
1 room for the
worker
1apartment for
b) generic mosques:
the imam+
(It is not allowed less
1apartment for
than 300) prayers 5 5 10 30 4
the muezzin+
From 300 -500
1 room for the
prayers
worker
1apartment for
the imam+
From 501 – 700 1apartment for
8 6 14 40 5
1 room for the
worker
From 701 – 1000
1apartment for
prayers
the imam+
1apartment for
More than 1000 10 8 20 60 6
the muezzin+
(studied by the
1 room for the
committee of
worker
building license)
Baths Sinks Ablution place Residence Parking lot Stopping
Kind
Limit inferior Limit inferior Limit inferior services Limit inferior stands
City centers and
commercial living
quarters 1 apartment for
a) Prayer times the imam+
mosque: 1apartment for
(It is not allowed less the muezzin+
than 150 prayers) 1 room for the
From 150 -300 worker
prayers 6 4 12 15 2
1apartment for
the imam+
From 301- 500 1apartment for
8 6 14 25 3
room for the
worker
1apartment for
b) generic mosques:
the imam+
It is not allowed less
1apartment for
than 500) prayers
the muezzin+
From 501 -700
room for the
prayers
10 8 20 worker 50 4
From 701 – 1000 1apartment for
prayers the imam+
1apartment for
12 10 24 70 5
(studied by the the muezzin+
committee of 1apartment for
building license) the worker
Rural areas
a) Prayer times
mosque:
less than 150 prayers 3 2 6 10 2
1apartment for
b) generic mosques: the imam
(It is not allowed less
than 300) prayers
From 300 -500
prayers 7 4 12 1apartment for 30 3-4
the imam+
More than 501 1apartment for
prayers ( studied by the muezzin+
the committee of 1apartment for
building license) the worker
public places (parks

and gardens)
1apartment for
external
4 2 8 the imam 12
throughways:
1apartment for
less than 150 prayers
(2) (2) (4) the imam -- --
Men
(1) (1) (2) -- -- --

Women
a. The mosques that are in the area of commercial works are excluded
from the condition of providing parking lots. The competent
administration can reconsider the number of the required parking
lots for mosques if there are public parking lots related to the
mosque or if the area of the land which is dedicated for the mosque
is small.
b. The number of the prayers should be calculated where (8) square
feet is for one prayer and this does not include the number of the
prayer outside the mosque land.
c. When designing the mosque , the following conditions should be
observed :
1. Designing and executing and supervising should be
done by Muslim hands that have a good experience
in the Islamic architecture and constructional works
and the manager of the consultive office who is in
charge of this should be Muslim as well as the
engineers who are designing and supervising the
mosque.
2. It is preferred that the mosque should be rectangle
where the longest side should be headed to the
kiblah. It is not preferred to make openings on the
side that has the mihrab. It is preferred also to
cancel any columns in the mosque land to keep the
continuation of lines.
3. There can be an office, an oratory for women, a
storehouse and rooms for the memorization of the
Koran which are supplement with the mosque. Their
number is settled according to the number of the
prayers in the mosque and to the study made by the
committee observing separating the women's
entrances from the men's entrances.
4. Mosques in general should have yards (uncovered
yard as a part of the mosque) and a place in it
should be dedicated for putting cold water
refrigerator as well as covered places for putting the
shoes of the prayers.
5. lavatories should be separated from the mosque
building itself where it has an independent entrance
and it should not be headed to the kiblah according
to the forgiving law .It is preferred to be in the south
–east corner and it should be from the eastern
model and one of the toilet can be from the western
model.
6. The ablution place must be provided as a necessary
element for the mosque.
7. It is preferred to make an outer fence around the
sacred place of the mosque with a suitable height
half of it is cement and the upper half is hollowed.
8. Any drawings or ornaments that contradict with the
Islamic law should be avoided.
9. The material of the inner and the outer finishing
should be from the materials and the types that go
with the dignity of the mosque.
10. There should be directorial signs that show all the
entrances, movement directions and the service
elements available in the mosque.
d. It is preferred to add an oratory for women in the mosques which
are close to public markets, large central mosques, rural areas, on
throughways, gardens, parks where the limit inferior for the services
of the women 's oratory is as the following:
i. Lavatories : (2)
ii. Sinks : (2)
iii. Ablution place: (3)
The women's oratory which is on a throughway is excluded
from that. There can be half the numbers required above.
e. There should be men oratory and women oratory in the malls
whose area is more than (100) thousand square feet with the
necessity to provide the limit inferior for the services for both sexes.
f. Observing the limit superior for the number of the prayers and the
dimension and the shape of the yard of the mosque when designing
the conditioning system. When designing the light spots and the
sound system, there should be a study for the harmony and the
regularity of the luminous intensity and the sound intensity inside
the space of the mosque. Designing sound systems and distributing
it should be done by expert bodies.
g. The mosque dimensions should be according to the specifications
and the standard dimensions approved by the competent
administration. The requirements and the conditions that are
observed should go with the forgiving Islamic law.
h. The skylights of the mosque should be designed according to the
architectural feature which is approved by the competent
administration.
i. The approval of any other bodies should be got when the
competent administration asks for it and this is when building a
mosque or when making any modifications or additions on it.
j. There should be a study for the entrances of the mosques, the
movement of the men and the women prayers from and to the
mosque in a way that ensure a complete separation in entrances,
the movement and the easiness in using the ablution place for both
sexes without any telescoping in the movement.
Article (33): The sanitary requirements in the establishments that are performing activities (restaurants,
drinks and food substances shops):
a. The design of the restaurants, drinks and food substances shops (restaurants,
cafeteria, café, juice shops, fruit and vegetable shops, dessert shops, ice cream
shop, mills, roaster houses, the stores for cooled, frozen and dry food
substances, bakeries, supermarket groceries, sea food shops and other
establishments) should be according to sanitary conditions issued by the
concerned administration where the engineer should go back to these
conditions when arranging the designs.
b. The floors, the walls and the ceilings of the of the restaurants, drinks and food
substances shops should be made from smooth materials easily cleaned which
is water non- absorbent, fire resistant, bright color, non-toxic and has no
cracks. It is also observed that the floors should have suitable slopes for water
flow to be easily cleaned. The angles between walls and between the walls and
the floors and between the walls and the ceiling should be tightly shut and
hollowed to make cleaning easier.
c. Providing suitable ventilation and lighting for all the inner parts in accordance
to what is mentioned in this list.
d. Providing shelves, electrical devices, sinks, storehouses, chimneys, service
tables, insects and rodents resistance devices where they should be fixed on
doors, windows, and exits and whatever is needed according to the sanitary
conditions issued by the concerned administration.
e. Restaurants, drinks and food substances shops should be equipped with the
necessary sanitary fittings according to the sanitary conditions and to the
conditions of sanitary fittings works.
f. The limit inferior for the area of the kitchen and the preparation sites in the
establishments which are mentioned in section (a) from this article should not
be less than the following:
The limit inferior for the area of the kitchen or

Activity
the preparation room
Restaurants 300 square feet or 40% of the area of the
restaurant no matter which is bigger.
Cafeteria 200 square feet
Cafes 100 square feet
Fresh juice shops (selling) 100 square feet
Shops for deserts and local 250 square feet
deserts.(preparing)
Bakeries 250 square feet
Seafood shops( selling and preparing) 250 square feet
Parties halls 500 square feet
g. The chimneys of restaurants, roaster houses and bakeries should be put from
the side of the track or through the skylight of the building to keep the general
view of the building. It should rise a distance not less than (2) meters above
the building surface and it should be equipped with environmental treatment
devices in a way that does not affect the neighborhood or deform the general
view of the building.
h. Cooling and freezing rooms should be supplied with thermometric scale fixed
in a way that could be seen from the outside and their doors can be opened
from the inside and the outside.
i. The limit inferior for the area of the establishment should not be less than the
following:
Activity The limit inferior for the area

Fruit and vegetables shops (200) square feet
Butchery (150) square feet
Soft drinks shops (100) square feet
Mills (150) square feet (displaying place is separate
from the preparation place)
Roaster houses (250) square feet
Supermarkets (2000) square feet from it (500) square feet as
a storehouse
Groceries 130 square feet
Pharmacies 300 square feet
Clinics Two rooms and a hall with (12) square meters
area for each one and a lavatory
Article (34): The educational buildings:

The following conditions should be provided as a limit inferior for every kind of the educational buildings
mentioned below:
a. Schools:
1. The school location should be in the areas that are stated for such usage
according to the map which supplement with the system of classifying and
economizing land usages in the emirate.
2. Schools should be designed according to the approved international
standard specifications and according to the conditions of the Ministry of
Education and to the conditions that are mentioned in this list.
3. Students' lavatories should be provided as the following: one toilet and one
sink are for every class as well as water coolers for drinking should be
distributed inside suites and in the shaded places in the school yards.
4. Providing lavatories for the teachers and the employees where one toilet
and one sink are for every (10) classes.
5. The sanitary conditions that are settled in the regulations of public health,
which are prevalent in the emirate, should be provided in all the parts and
the elements of the building.
6. Providing natural ventilation, lighting and air-conditioning according to the
standard specifications that are approved for all the elements of the school
especially summer rooms, labs and halls.
7. The direction of lighting should be on the students' left and it should not be
on the side which is opposite to the frontal teaching board.
8. Providing closets and shelves in classes and labs in a way that goes with the
number of the students. Classes should be supplied with suitable curtains.
9. Separating the classes, the school yard, the cafeteria, the lavatories that are
related to both sexes (female and male)
10. The school should have a library with an area that goes with the number of
the students.
11. The school should include rooms for the school management, the teachers,
the executives, the supervisors where the area should go with the number
of the school students.
12. The school should include labs, computer rooms and activity halls in a way
that goes with the number of students. The labs should be as far as possible
from classes.
13. The school should have at least one cafeteria which corresponds to the
sanitary conditions which are settled by public health regulations prevalent
in the emirate.
14. The school should have a clinic which at least has one room for the school
doctor and other room for the nurse attached to them a consulting room
and a separated lavatory where its area corresponds to the sanitary
conditions that are settled in health regulations prevalent in the emirate.
15. Providing a school yard for students with an area which is not less than half
the area of the classes and providing a flagpole where part of this yard
should be shaded.
16. The school should include the necessary athletic field according to the
condition of the Ministry of Education and it should include a hall for free
activities (multi-purpose activities).
17. All labs should be supplied with strong fans to suck air or a gas chamber to
make chemical experiments.
18. It is not stated for cars and buses to enter inside the school yards that are
dedicated for the students. The entrances, the exits and the passages of
their movement should be separated from the students' movement.
19. Providing parking lots according to article (25) from this list as well as
parking lots for buses in a way that goes with the number of the students. A
complete separation should be provided between the movement of the
buses and the movement of the pedestrians, the fields and the yards.
b. Kindergartens:
1. It is stated to have a kindergarten license in the areas which are stated for
this usage according to the map which is supplement with the system of
classifying and economizing land usages in the emirate.
2. The kindergarten should be designed according to the approved
international standard specifications and to the conditions of the Ministry of
Education and to the conditions of the competent administration.
3. Providing lavatories for children where one toilet and one sink are for each
class. The sanitary devices should be in suitable measurements for the
children according to the approved standard specifications.
4. Providing natural ventilation and lighting as well as air-conditioning
according to the standard specifications that are approved for all the
elements of the building with supplying all windows with suitable curtains.
5. The sanitary conditions which are settled in public health regulations
prevalent in the emirate should be provided in all the parts and the
elements of the building.
6. Providing a yard for games that covers twice the area which is for classes
where one part which is not less than one third of the area of the yard
should be shaded. Dedicating a part of this yard to plant trees and flowers
and for putting suitable games for children which should be checked and
maintained regularly.
7. The kindergarten should include at least one cafeteria
8. Providing lavatories for the teachers and the employees where one toilet
and one sink are for every (10) classes.
9. It is not stated for cars and buses to enter into the yard dedicated for
children .The movement passages and entrances, which are for cars and
buses, should be separated from the children's movements.
10. Providing parking lots according to article (25) from this list as well as
parking lots for buses that go with the number of children with considering a
complete separation between the movement of the cars and the movement
of the pedestrian, the yards and the fields.
11. The kindergarten should have a clinic which consists of at least (one
room and a separate lavatory) and equipped with the most important
medical instruments and the necessary first aids for the children where its
area should corresponds to the sanitary conditions which are settled in
public health regulations prevalent in the emirate.
12. The kindergarten should have rooms for the management, the teachers and
the executives in a way that goes with the number of students according to
the conditions of the Ministry of Education and to the conditions that are
settled by the competent administration.
13. The kindergarten building should be independent and does not include any
other educational grades. Classes should be only in the ground floor and this
can be exceeded if there are technical reasons approved by competent
administration.
14. Dedicating a hall for free activities.
c. Nursery schools
1. It is stated to have a nursery school license in the areas which are dedicated
for such usages according to the system of classifying and economizing land
usages in the emirate.
2. The nursery should be designed according to the approved international
standard specifications and to the conditions of the Ministry of Education
and to the conditions that are settled by the competent administration.
3. Providing in the building the sanitary conditions settled in public health
regulations prevalent in the emirate.
4. Providing natural ventilation and lighting as well as air-conditioning
according to the standard specifications that are approved for all the
elements of the building. Windows should be supplied with curtains
5. Providing lavatories where one lavatory is for every two rooms from the
children's room.
6. Providing a large shaded yard covered with sand and plants which goes with
the number of the children.
7. The area between the beds in the nursery rooms should not be less than
one meter.
8. Providing parking lots according to article (25) from this list with observing a
complete separation between the movement of the cars and the movement
of the pedestrians, the yards and the fields.
9. The nursery should be in the ground floor or in the first floor and it should
have empty spaces that can be used for the motion activity for children. This
can be exceeded if there are technical reasons to which the competent
administration approves.
10. Dedicating a room in the building for a clinic where it should be equipped
with the most important medical equipments and the first aids that are
necessary for children.
Article (35): Sanitary Buildings:

The following conditions should be observed as a limit inferior in order to get the construction license for
every kind of the following sanitary buildings:
a) Hospitals:
1. It is stated to build hospitals in the areas stated for this usage according to
the map which is supplement with the system of classifying and economizing
land usages in the emirate.
2. Getting the approval of the department of health and medical services as a
major condition to get the construction license.
3. The hospital should be designed and executed according to the international
standard bases which are approved for hospitals.
4. Studying 1)the area of the elements and its relation with each other, 2)the
width of the doors , the passages and the necessary electric, sanitary and
mechanical fittings and 3) the used material in a way that goes with the
kinds, the specifications and the measurements of the medical devices and
equipments used in it.
5. Arranging the designs for the inner furniture. On it there should be the kinds
and the measurements of the devices and the equipments used in the
different departments.
6. Providing natural ventilation and lighting for the patients' rooms, waiting
rooms, offices and halls as well as mechanical ventilation according to the
approved standard specifications for the other parts that do not have
natural ventilation.
7. The luminous intensity (natural, unnatural) in all the parts of the hospital
should be according to the approved international standard specifications.
8. The patient's room should be as far as possible from the streets and the
parking lots where the wall should be sound proof from one room to
another.
9. The hospital should be supplied with a back up electric generator.
10. Providing parking lots according to the planning conditions settled when
assigning a plot.
11. Providing trash rooms and the means to get rid of wastes according to the
special studies and the approvals of the competent administration.
b) Clinics:
1. The locations of clinics should be in the places which are stated for such
usages according to the map which is supplement with the system of
classifying and economizing land usages in the emirate.
2. Getting the approval of the department of health and medical services as a
condition to get the construction license or decoration works.
3. The area of the clinic should not be less than two rooms and a hall and the
area of both of them should not be less than (12) square meters.
4. The clinic should include at least one lavatory.
5. Dedication a separate room for consulting and a separate waiting hall for
men and another one for women.
6. The floors should be from smooth and easily cleaned materials.
c) Pharmacies :
1. The area of the pharmacy should not be less than (300) square feet and its
location should be in the places which are stated for commercial usages.
2. The height of the ceiling of the pharmacy should not be less than (9) feet.
3. The distance between it and the closest pharmacy should not be less than
(200) meters on a crossing road.
4. The floor should be from smooth and easily cleaned materials.
d) Body fitness, massage and weight reduction Center:
1. Sanitary conditions should be provided in the building concerning natural
lighting and ventilation.
2. They should be provided with lavatories and bath tubs for both sexes with
numbers that go with the area of the center.
3. Dedication an isolated place and small rooms for changing cloths for both
sexes.
4. Dedicating a rest away from the current of air for sitting after getting out of
the wet baths (Steam) and the dry baths (sauna).
5. The device of producing steam for the steam baths should be completely
separate from the bath.
6. Athletic devices and tools that may cause stresses to walls should not be
fixed. It is allowed to fix only simple devices providing that it should be fixed
safely.
7. The athletics which make noise or vibrations (karate, weight lifting and
others) should be in the ground floor or in the mezzanine in the building.
Their floors and walls should be equipped with noise insulating materials.
Article (36): Hotel establishments (hotels, motels and hotel apartments):

a. It is stated to build hotel establishments with their different groups
in the areas which are stated for commercial usages as well as the
places that are stated for such usages according to the map which is
supplement with the system of classifying and economizing land
usages in the emirate.
b. Getting the preliminary approval from tourism department and
commercial marketing is a condition to get the construction license
for any hotel establishment according to system No :( 1) for 1998
A.D concerning licensing and classifying hotels, motels and hotel
apartments.
c. The engineer should go back to the conditions issued by the tourism
department and the commercial marketing concerning the
standards for classifying hotels before starting to arrange the
designs for any hotel establishment.
d. Providing parking lots according to article (25) from this list.
e. The number of rooms should not be less than (10) rooms in the
hotel and the motels and (8) apartments or villas or studios for hotel
apartments.
f. The separate hotel rooms should not be less than (50%) of the total
number of hotel rooms.
Article (37): The technical conditions for hotel establishments:

a. There should be a reception counter, a deposit room and a room for storing luggage in the
ground floor.
b. There should be a rest hall or a waiting hall or a reception hall with a suitable area.
c. A dinning room or a cafeteria related to them a preparation room or a kitchen only for the
hotels and the motels.
d. A small storehouse in the repeated floors for room service.
e. An elevator that serve all bedrooms if the number of floors is more than a ground floor
and two floors.
f. In hotels and motels, there should be a public lavatory for men and another one for
women for the service of dinning rooms and a public lavatory for men and another one for
women in the reception hall and the waiting hall or the mezzanine for the service of the
reception hall and the waiting hall.
Each lavatory should have a sink, a seat toilet, a cover and a bidet where there is a door
that separate between the sink and the toilet. In each lavatory, there should be cold and
hot running water. If the dinning room is on the same floor as the reception hall, there can
be one lavatory for men and another one for women for the service of the two halls
providing that each lavatory should have two sinks, two toilets and two bidets where
every toilet is separate from the two sinks and from the other toilets.
g. In hotels, the limit inferior for the net area of the rooms without a bath and the hall of
entrances should not be less than the following:
i. Single room: (9) square meters
ii. Double rooms: (11) square meters
iii. A room for 3 people: (13) square meters
h. Each bedroom should be supplemented with a bath which includes a shower or a bath tub
with a handle and a shower, a seat toilet with a cover and a bidet, a sink, (cold and hot)
running water and a socket for the electric shaver near the mirror.
i. In motels , the limit inferior for the net area of the room without the bath and the hall of
entrances should not be less than the following:
i. Single room: (8) square meters
ii. Double rooms: (10) square meters
iii. A room for 3 people: (12) square meters
j. In motels, the private or the mutual baths can include a shower or a bath tub with a
shower, seat toilet with a cover and bidet , sink, cold and hot running water and a socket
for the electric shaver near the mirror where the number of baths is not less than the
following rates:
-(25%) of the rooms with independent baths related to them.
- (75%) of the rooms with mutual baths where a bath is for every two rooms.
k. In hotel apartments, the limit inferior for the area of the bedroom without the bath and
the hall of entrances should be as the following:
i. Bedroom: (12) square meters
ii. Studio: (17) square meters
l. In hotel apartments, there should be a bathroom with a shower or a bath tub with a
handle, a sink, a seat toilet with a cover and a bidet, a socket for the electric shaver near
the mirror as well as cold and hot running water.
m. Sufficient lighting should be provided in the public entrance, the passages, the stairs, the
rooms and the halls.
n. Air-conditioning should be provided for all the rooms, the halls, the restaurants and the
hall of entrances.
o. Security and safety devices should be provided according to the approved conditions of
the competent department.
p. There should be directorial signs which are self-lightened in all the passages, the stairs, the
hall of entrances and the places of public usage to point to the stairs and the emergency
exits if there is a fire. It is not allowed to put any materials or barriers or obstacles that
may restrict escaping to the outside.
q. Putting fire extinguishers in an evident place to get to it easily with providing directorial
signs to refer to them. It is not allowed to put any barriers, materials or obstacles that may
restrict using these devices.
r. Signs should be put behind every door of the guests' rooms which show the location of the
stairs and the lay out drawing to show how to get to them in order to run away if there is a
fire.
Article (38): Petroleum stations:

a. It is allowed to build a petroleum stations in the areas dedicated for this according to the
map which is supplement with the system of classifying and economizing land usages in
the emirate.
b. It is not stated to use the land dedicated for the petroleum station for any other usages
except some secondary usages related to car service, drinks shop and fast food and
selling shops (mini-market and the like) whose area is not more than (1600) square feet.
c. Providing parking lots where one parking lot is for every (750) square feet from the area
of (mini-market) and the services that need this. It is observed that these parking lots
should not stand in the way of cars inside the station.
d. It is stated to build establishments on the boarders of the plot directly from the street
and the track side taking into consideration the regression of these establishments about
(10) feet from the neighborhood side.
e. Providing security and safety conditions which are approved by the competent
administration for all establishments.
f. The height of the shop and the extensions should not be more than (14) feet.
g. It is stated to make two rooms as a limit superior for the workers' residence in all the
stations that are inside the city boarders and three rooms as a limit superior for the
stations which are outside the city boarders.
h. There should be lavatories (men and women) for public service separate from those
dedicated for the workers of the station. It includes not less than two lavatories for men
and another one for women with sinks for each one of them.
i. Service and car washing stations should be provided with the suitable devices and the
equipments to drain and purify water such as sand precipitation rooms, oil traps and
pumps to guarantee water purification before connect it to the dissolution tanks or to the
general net.
j. The consulting engineer has to present a plan for the general location of the station
showing:
i. Entering and exiting lanes which are suggested for the station in a
way that goes with the speed of the road on which the station is and
with the radius of entrance turning.
ii. All the elements of the station existing to (500) meters before and
after the location of the station which includes traffic signs,
skylights, trees, inspection room, pump rooms and secondary
electricity stations.
iii. The direction of the traffic and the number of road lanes and the
declared speed.
Article (39): Industrial establishments (warehouses, workshops, factories. . . etc)

a. It is not stated to make industrial establishments except in the areas dedicated for this
according to the map which is supplement with the system of classifying and
economizing land usages in the emirate.
b. Except the plots that are subject to a special system, It is stated to build on the
boarders of the plot directly without any withdrawal from the street or the road side
where as from the neighborhood side , building should be done with a withdrawal not
less than (10) feet.
c. It is stated to build a service facility without a withdrawal from the neighborhood side
providing that it should be put in a tape shape and its inner height is not more than
(10) feet.
d. The doors of the warehouses and workshops should be opened to the loading and
unlading areas corresponding to what was mentioned in article (40) from this list. It is
not stated to open the doors to the streets and the tracks directly except emergency
doors with a withdrawal not more (5) feet.
e. Providing natural lighting and ventilation with a percentage not less than (5%) of the
floor area for any warehouse or workshop or factory.
f. The net inner height for any warehouse or workshop or factory should not be less than
(14) feet and the limit superior for the inner height should not be more than (20)
except the usages that require a larger increase in the height.
g. Warehouses, workshops and other industrial establishments should be supplied with
lavatories according to what was mentioned in article (44) from this list.
h. The building ratio for warehouses should not be less than (30%) of the area of the plot.
As for the workshops; the location of contracting and transportations should not be
less than (10%) of the area of the plot. As for the factories, it should not be less than
(35%) unless the opposite of this is mentioned in the land assigning decree or if the
nature of usage requires the opposite.
i. It is stated to make a partial or complete mezzanine inside warehouses, workshops
and factories on one condition; its usage is related to the ground floor and its entrance
should be from inside the ground floor itself. It is not stated to make separate
entrances for the mezzanine.
j. The heights of the ground floors and the mezzanine should be according to what was
mentioned in article (7) from this list concerning commercial usages.
k. It is stated to make secondary offices for the service of industrial activity in the plot
providing that the office percentage should not be more than (10%) of the building
area. This percentage can increase, if the nature of the usage requires this according to
what the committee of building license decides. In all cases, parking lots should be
provided for these offices where one parking lot is for every (750) square feet.
l. Building ratios, building heights, the areas of offices related to large factories and the
special usages should be settled according to the nature of the usage and to the
planning conditions when assigning a plot.
m. The environmental conditions that were mentioned in article (26) from this list should
be applied to the usages that result in damaging the surrounding environment when
storing or applying or using them.
n. The height of windowsills for the ground floor which looks out to the streets or the
tracks should not be less than (6) feet, if the building is on the boarders of the plot
directly.
o. It is not stated to practice commercial activities or commercial exhibition in the
industrial establishments.
p. Except the plots which are subject to a special system, a fence should be constructed
with a height (6) feet on the boarders of the plot from all sides with the necessity to
paint these fences in a way that does not deform the general view and the width of
the main entrance in the fence should not be less than (14) feet and the competent
administration may approve to the special architectural designs especially for inner
fences.
q. The inner withdrawal between buildings or establishments should not be less than (10)
feet.
Article (40): Loading and unloading places:

a. Loading and unloading places should be provided in all the industrial establishments and
the malls where the limit inferior for their area should be as the following:
1. (15) feet width × (20) feet depth only for a warehouse or a workshop.
2. (20) feet width × (30) feet depth for two warehouses or two workshops.
3. (30) × (30) feet for three or more warehouses or workshops.
b. What applies on the entrances and exits of parking lots is applied on the loading and
unloading places according to what was mentioned in article (24) and article (25) from this
list.
c. Loading and unloading area can be covered or uncovered. If it is covered, the net height of
the entrance and the ceiling should not be less than (14) feet.
Article (41): Swimming pools:

a. It is not allowed to construct swimming pools before getting a construction license from
b. Abiding by all the requirements of constructing and operating swimming pools which are
mentioned in the environment regulations prevalent in the emirate especially getting the
preliminary approval from the environment administration in the municipality as a
condition to license swimming pools. The competent administration can exclude the
swimming pools in the residential building from some of these conditions.
c. With observing any condition or other requirements which are mentioned in the
regulations of environment, health and public safety, the swimming pool should include all
the requirements of safety and public health and especially the followings:
1. The system for water purification and recycling the water of the pool.
2. Purgation and sterilization the water of the pool.
3. Other control procedures related to safety and health that are taken at the
phase of designing and when operating.
d. Swimming pools should be supplied with ladders according to the following conditions:
1. Supplying the pool with steps and ladders, if the depth is more than (0.6)
meter.
2. Providing at least one ladder for every (30) meters from the perimeter of the
pool.
3. The ladders of the pool should be corrosion-resistance supplied with
footholds that are slide-resistance with a space (90) millimeters a way from
the wall.
4. If there are inner steps in the cavities of the pool, these steps should have
slide-resistance surfaces and should be self –discharge where the least
width for a foothold is (150) millimeters and the least height of the step is
(350) millimeters.
5. The pool should be supplied with lateral rails extend above the surface of
the pool and it go back to the horizontal surface of the pool at every side
from the sides of each ladder or supplied with steps fixed in the cavities.
6. Pools with steps can be stated only if the pool is shallow where its depth
does not exceed (1) meter.
e. Swimming pools should be supplied with bath tubs (shower) and foot baths where one
foot bath is for every (25) meters from the perimeter of the pool with a limit inferior (1) for
every kind. Swimming pools should also be supplied with toilets and changing rooms in a
way that goes with the perimeter of the pool.
f. Diving platforms and towers should be according to the following conditions:
1. Providing empty space above the diving tower or the board at least about
(5) meters for the head movement.
2. Diving platforms and spring boards should be covered with slide-resistance
materials.
3. The least depth of water under any spring board, fixed on a distance (1)
meter or less from the surface of the water, should not be less than (2.5)
meters. The water depth for spring boards above (1) meter increases with
(0.3) meter for each (1) meter or part of it is more than (1) meter.
4. Providing horizontal separation with (3) meters between the parallel spring
boards and any spring board and the lateral wall.
g. Swimming pools should be supplied with sufficient lighting (underwater or above water)
that provides lighting for the whole pool including the bottom without causing any
reflection or glow or burns or electric shock or physical injuries.
h. In every circuit, there should be a breaker for earth-leakage circuit.
i. The swimming pool should be surrounded from all sides with flat slide- resistance surfaces
with a rate slope (1:40) opposite to the direction of the swimming pool as well as supplying
these surfaces with suitable water drains.
j. There should be signs which show the water depth whether on the surface of the edge or
the wall of the pool at the least and the most depth and at the points of slope breakage.
k. Providing swimming pools with exiting drain, scrapers, filers of hair and impurities, filtering
devices, sterilizations equipments, and safety and rescuing equipments according to the
approved environmental conditions
l. Providing a special place for the high chair of the rescuer and a special place for putting
directorial signs for the swimming pools users.
Article (42): Sanitary Works:

a. It is not allowed to do any sanitary drainage works before getting a construction license
from the competent administration.
b. The material used in the sanitary works and in designing the works of drainage in the
buildings and the establishments should be according to the specifications and the
standard conditions issued by the competent administration.
c. It is not allowed to connect the special buildings with the net of the general sanitary
drainage away from the municipality where only the concerned administration can
perform the connection.
d. No modifications are allowed to the design of the sanitary drainage for any building after
issuing the construction license without getting the necessary license even though that
these modifications are accepted from the technical and geometrical aspect.
e. The approval of the competent administration to connect the lines of the sanitary drainage
for buildings with the general net as it is in the drawings of the construction license is the
preliminary approval which does not obligate the municipality if the difficulty or the
impossibility of connecting by this way appeared later. The competent administration can
ask to make modifications to the sanitary drainage system for the building in such cases in
order to connect the lines of sanitary drainage for the building with the general net in a
technical or a good geometrical pattern.
Article (43): The regulations and the conditions of sanitary works:-

a. The following documents and designs should be presented as limit inferior for the sanitary
works when applying to get the construction license:-
1. Paying the taxes of the sanitary drainage connection if there is a general net
for the sanitary drainage and the document of connection site (isolated
connection FIC) with this net.
2. The sheet of the conditions and the specifications related to sanitary works
according to the instructions of the competent administration signed and
approved by an engineer.
3. Setting out plan showing the general lines of sanitary drainage in the area
the surrounds the plot, if it exists, the external lines of the sanitary drainage,
inspection rooms inside the boarders of the plot, the last inspection rooms,
the location of the FIC with the lines of the general sanitary drainage net and
its levels, dissolution tank and the absorbing hole if there is a general net for
sanitary drainage.
4. The layouts of sanitary fittings and water fittings for all the floors of the
building.
5. Any documents or other details asked by the competent administration.
b. The surfaces of toilets, urinals and sinks should be smooth, easily cleaned and non-
absorbent. These fixtures should be made and fixed in a way that guarantees discharging
anything in it without storing and this is through a water lock where its water is protected
from exsiccation and evaporation. The drain tanks related to the toilets and the urinals
should be affective and able to clean the remaining wastes and can stand the stresses of
the operation in public places.
c. In the buildings whose height is less than (20) floors, the sanitary drainage for the ground
floor is connected separately to the inspection rooms directly. It is not connected on the
same vertical columns related to the above floors.
d. In the buildings whose height is more than (20) floors, the sanitary drainage for the ground
floor and the first floor is connected separately to the inspection rooms directly. It is not
connected on the same vertical columns related to the above floors.
e. The inner sanitary drainage system in buildings should be supplied with the necessary
ventilation pipes with a sufficient size in order to use it where its inner radius should not
be less than (50) millimeters in the inner connections and (75) millimeters in the vertical
columns. It should be fixed vertically and raised to a distance where its limit inferior is (1)
meter above the highest opening in the building and on a horizontal distance not less than
(2) meters.
The competent administration can ask to raise the ventilation pipe or to put it away from
the openings in addition to what was mentioned if there is technical reasons that require
this. The endings of the pipes should be covered with covers especially for this.
f. It is not allowed to drain the water of bidets to the ground drain pipes or the normal drain
columns. It should go to the work columns or to the inspection hole through a deep water
lock.
g. The work pipes and the normal drain pipes buried underground should be made from
strong and tough materials and their radius and slopes should be according to the
specifications issued by the competent administration. Its joints should be air-sealer and
they do not give any obstacles inside the pipe and it can stand a pressure not less than the
limit inferior (3) meters height from water. These pipes should be laid and spread in a way
that goes with the soil and the loading conditions and according to the instructions of the
manufacturing company.
h. An inspection room should be constructed at every point where the direction of the drain
pipes change or where their slope degree change or where the pipe line is connected with
others. The distance between two inspection holes should not be more than (15) meters.
The inspection rooms should be according to the specifications issued by the competent
administration.
i. It is not stated to construct inspection holes inside the ceiled buildings except in skylights,
passages, service rooms, garages and the passages with enough ventilation. The pipes of
sanitary drainage that extend under the floors and the walls should be protected from any
external works or from floors subsidence. Cleaning eyes should be provided on it with
distances not more than (10) meters.
j. All inspection holes should be constructed inside the boarders of the plot. Observing,
when designing and settling the location of the inspection holes, the location and the
suitable levels for the last inspection hole concerning the easiness of connecting it to the
general sanitary drainage net and its fulfilling the conditions of the concerned
administration.
k. All the basements (cellars) should be supplied with the suitable devices and equipments
for draining and purifying water such as: (sand precipitation rooms, pumps, grease traps,
…. etc) and if there is no need for the grease traps in the suggested current design, the
necessary equipments should be made to be fixed when it is needed.
l. It is not allowed to lay drain pipes through the columns, the bridges, the foundations and
the electricity rooms unless the competent administration approved to this. In these cases,
the pipes are being laid through openings already built when casting the concrete. The
pipes should be supplied with the necessary flexible joints.
m. In the case of discharging a large amount of grease or oils to the sanitary drainage net
from the restaurants or the kitchens and the like, grease and oil lock should be fixed where
its design is approved by the concerned administration.
n. It is not allowed to discharge commercial and industrial wastes to the general net of the
sanitary drainage without the approval of the concerned administration. This approval is
not grated unless there are suitable equipments for the primary treatment for such
wastes. It is also not allowed to drain the water of heaters whose temperature is more
than (37) degrees Centigrade to the general sanitary drainage net before cooling it.
Article (44) Sanitary Facilities:

The limit inferior for the sanitary facilities which should be provided in building is as the following; at least
(75%) from these sanitary facilities (toilet) should be in the places of public activities from the eastern
model:
a. Residential units:
i. Each residential unit should be supplied with the necessary equipments of the
sanitary facilities such as baths, toilets and kitchens where getting to at least one
toilet is not done from any residential room.
b. Studios:
i. Each studio should be supplied with the necessary equipments of the sanitary
facilities such as baths, toilets and a place for preparing food as a limit inferior.
c. Offices, shops and galleries:
i. Offices:
1. There should be a bath for each separate office or a bath for every (2000)
square feet from the open space of the offices if there is collective baths.
ii. Shops and galleries:
1. There should be at least one bath for the commercial area from (1) to (3000)
square feet and two baths for men and one for women for the area from
(3001) to (10,000) square feet. When having more than that, a bath for men
and another one for women are added for every additional (10,000) square
feet.
d. Malls and public entertaining buildings:
i. There should be at least three baths for men and two baths for women for the
commercial or the entertaining area from (1) to (10,000) square feet. What is more
than that, one bath for men and another for women are added for every additional
(5,000) square feet with providing baths for women with a number equals half the
number of men's baths.
ii. Providing additional bath for men and another one for women for the people of
peculiar needs if the entertaining or the commercial area is more than (20000)
square feet.
e. Workers' residence:
i. The sanitary facilities should be provided according to the special stipulations for the
workers' residence which were mentioned in article (31) from this list.
ii. Toilets are separated from sinks and from bath tubs inside the full services.
f. Kindergartens and schools:
i. Providing sanitary facilities for schools and kindergartens according to the special
stipulations related to them which were mentioned in article (34) from this list.
g. Warehouses and workshops:
i. Providing a toilet and a sink for each warehouse or workshop whereas in the case of
full services, a bath and a sink should be provided for every (5000) square feet for
the first (10000) from the total area of building then a toilet and a sink for every
(15000) square feet which follows the first (10000) where sinks should be external.
h. Hotels and the restaurants of hotels and motels:
i. Sanitary facilities should be provided according to the stipulations related to hotels
which were mentioned in article (37) from this list.
i. Mosques:
i. Providing sanitary facilities for them according to the stipulations related to
mosques that were mentioned in article (32) from this list.
j. Other special buildings:
i. Sanitary facilities should be provided according to the special studies, specifications
and the international measurements which are approved.
Article (45): Dissolution tanks and absorbing holes:-

If there is not a general net for sanitary drainage in the area where the building is dedicated to be
constructed, the buildings should be provided with dissolution and drain tanks or collection tanks according
to the following conditions:
a. It should be within the boarders of the plot.
b. It should be in a location near to a road or a track and away from the main building and the
neighborhood. They can be reached easily for cleaning, maintenance, unloading providing
that the competent administration approve to this location. It should be easily-connected
to the general sanitary drainage net in the future.
c. The ceiling of these tanks should be from reinforced concrete where they can stand cars
passing over them if this is needed.
d. They should have an opening with a heavy cover that can be shut tightly with enough
dimensions.
e. The level of their ceiling should not rise above the ground level where they are in.
f. The capacity of these tanks should be suitable and calculated depending on the daily
personal consumption according to the standards tables.
g. They should be on a distance not less than (1) meter from the buildings and the
neighboring fences if they were from reinforced concrete and not permeable and three
meters if they are from brick. Their depth is not less than (1.5) meters from the level of the
bottom of the pipe for the whole entrance.
h. In the places where the level of ground water is high or the rate of drain is not enough
through the soil, tanks for collecting the water of sanitary drainage should be made until
transporting it to the points settled by the concerned administration.
i. The dissolution tank and the absorbing hole should be designed according to the approved
standard specifications. The dissolution tank should be supplied with a ventilation pipe in
accordance to the conditions of the competent administration and all its openings should
be covered in a way that prevent insects from going in or out.
j. Except the residence building, grease and oil traps which come from restaurants and food
preparation places should be provided.
Article (46): Draining rainwater:

a. Providing the suitable means to collect rainwater and to get rid of it in a way that prevents
dampness permeable.
b. Tilting every uncovered surface in any building with a slope where its rate is not less than
(1:50) to (1:70) where water flows on it to suitable channels or outlets which lead to drain
pipes or gutters suitable to this purpose.
c. Channels, gutters, outlets and drain pipes should be with a slope where its angle is not less
than (1: 90) and made from strong materials and water sealant joints with sufficient size
fixed firmly and safely.
d. It is not allowed to drain rainwater in the pipes of the sanitary drainage or in the
dissolution tanks or the absorbing holes or to the neighborhood. It should be drained
through the surface to the streets and the tracks. Rainwater can be drained directly to the
general net for rainwater drainage or the absorbing holes in coordination with the
concerned administration
e. It is not allowed to drain the water of conditioners and porches to the street directly or to
the lines of rainwater drain. The water of conditioners and porches should be drained to
the general sewer net.
f. It is not allowed to drain exhaust water to the rainwater drainage net whatever the
reasons were.
Article (47): Water supplying:

a. It is not allowed to drain exhaust water to the rainwater drainage net whatever the
reasons were.
b. The materials which are being used , their specifications, designing the nets and the
equipments related to water fittings should correspond to the conditions and the
specifications related to the department for the water and the electricity of Dubai.
c. Each building or establishment should be connected to the general water net if it is not
supplied with water, by any other way which the competent administration approves to.
Article (48): drinking water tanks:

a. a. Drinking water tanks should be made from non- corrodible materials and it should not
affect the natural and the chemical properties of water. It should not change the color or
the taste or the smell of water. It should not be affected with heat or dampness and it
should be opaque and has no harmful effect on human health.
b. Tanks should be supplied with cleaning eyes in a suitable measurement where it can be
shut tightly and it is from a type dedicated for water tanks (double seal). These openings
should be with a capacity sufficient for a person entering to do the regular cleaning inside
the tank and its location should be in a clean place and away from the direct daily
movement and from pollution sources and it should be high from the ground level .
c. It is observed when designing the tank not having sharp angels which leads to trash and
germs accumulation or prevents regular cleaning works.
d. Tanks should be supplied with filler holes and distribution, discharge ports for laundry
water and vents with measurements suitable with the tank size. It is observed that the
distribution openings should be on a height not less than (6) centimeters from the tank
bottom level , the discharge port for laundry water should be inside the tank bottom ,the
filler holes and vents should be in the upper part of the tank. These openings should be
supplied with a central cock for opening and closing and the vent pipe should be designed
in a way that prevent any materials or insects, that may pollute the tank, from getting into
it. All these openings and joints should be made from rustproof materials and they do not
have harmful effects on the human health.
e. The tank should be put in clean places away from any pollution source and it should be
raised on legs with a distance not less than (20) centimeters from the ground. It should be
fixed in a way that does not affect on the insulating layers for surfaces. It should be put in
shaded places and it should not appear in a way that deform or stand in the way of the
movement on the roof.
f. Water tanks should be cleaned once every (at least six months) observing that the material
used for cleaning should not include toxic materials or it should not be harmful to public
health. Sanitary condition must be abided completely during cleaning.
g. Observing when choosing the tanks location, their being as far as possible from the lines of
sanitary drainage, inspection rooms, dissolution tanks and absorbing holes. In all cases, it is
not stated to put the sanitary drainage lines above or next to water tanks if the tanks are
below the ground level.
h. Calculating tank capacity is done depending on the actual needs of the building in
accordance to what the competent administration settles.
i. The inspector can get into any building to check the water tanks to make sure of its
correspondence to health and technical conditions.
Article (49): Storing house gas cylinders:-

The following conditions should be provided as a limit inferior in the places for storing house gas cylinders:
a. Putting or storing house gas cylinder in a covered place with good ventilation and this
place should be outside the kitchen or the residence area.
b. The cylinders storehouse in public buildings should be with good ventilation and easily
reached to replace empty cylinder and easily isolated and firefighting in it at emergency.
c. All gas fittings should be according to the standard specifications which are approved by
d. If there is a central storehouse for gas cylinders in the building, the owner of the building
had to perform annual checking for all the joints
e. and the pipes of gas conduction to the residential units to make sure of its
safety and that there is no leakage in them.
f. All cylinder storehouses should be provided with alarming systems and firefighting
according to the specifications and the conditions which are settled by the competent
administration and there should be a regular maintenance on the extinguishing devices.
g. Combustible materials such as tyres, carton and paper should not be stored with gas
cylinders.
Article (50): Insulating materials:

The following conditions are applied to thermal and dampness insulating materials:
a. Insulating layers should be made on the floors of baths, kitchens and lavatories.
b. Insulating layers for heat and dampness should be made on the last rooftop in a building to
protect the ceiling of the last floor from the infiltration of rainwater and heat.
c. Insulating layers should be made around the building foundations till (1) feet height above
the level of the normal ground.
d. Painting and protecting all kinds of rusty metals with insulating materials and maintaining
them regularly especially drainpipes and supplying pipes.
e. All the conditions and the specifications that were mentioned in the list of thermal
insulation approved by the competent administration should be applied when designing,
carrying out and calculating the electrical and thermal works of the building which include
( ceilings, walls, widows, doors, building direction, organizing the location, planting trees,
electrical lighting, mechanical ventilations, air-conditioning, . . . . etc)
Article (51): The conditions for the rooms and the assemblages of trash:-
a. Supplying buildings and residential, industrial, educational ,sanitary, entertaining and
tourism assemblages with a trash assemblages within the plot boarders and within the
building fence or in a room in the ground floor from the same building in order to pile
trash to facilitate transporting it outside the building to get rid of it.
b. The specifications of trash rooms are as the following:
1. It should be constructed in a place near the street or the track if there is no
street to facilitate letting out the containers and carrying them to the
vehicle of collecting trash with no obstacles.
2. The measurements of the entrance should be suitable for getting the
containers in and out easily. Entrances should be supplied with ramps with a
slope suitable for this purpose.
3. The measurements and the areas of the rooms and the assemblages should
be according to what was settled in article (52) from this list.
4. The floor and the whole height of the walls of the rooms should be from
ceramic tiles in order to facilitate cleaning it.
5. It should be supplied with water from the net directly or from the left tank.
6. It should be connected with the lines of sanitary drainage in the building.
7. It should have good lighting and supplied with a good ventilation system.
8. All windows should be shut tightly and supplied with a metal smooth sieve
to prevent insects and rodents from getting in.
9. The door of the collecting room should be from rustproof metal and it
should be supplied from the bottom with louvers or any mechanical
ventilation system and the direction for the opening of the doors should be
to the outside.
10. All the assemblages of trash containers should be in the ground floor and its
floor level is not less than the settled areal reference. Its entrance is
connected to the street with a ramp which has a suitable slopes and it
should be paved with ceramic tiles that can be washed and supplied with a
water tap.
c. The building should be supplied with chute system if its height is more than three floors
above the ground floor and the area of the land is more than (2500) square feet. The
mezzanine is not considered a floor if its usage is related to the ground floor.
d. In the plots which their area is less than (5000) square feet, it is allowed to replace the
chute by providing a small trash room (4×6) in every floor in addition to the main trash
room in the ground floor where the width of the door is not less than (90) centimeters and
it should be opened to the outside. It should be supplied with a door closer with providing
mechanical ventilation. It is not stated to have ventilation through the louvers in the door.
e. The radius of chute from the floors to the collecting rooms should not be less than
(60)centimeters where before the chute openings in the repeated floor, there should be a
small room where its area is not less than (3×3)feet and the width of the door for this
room is not less than (80)centimeters. Its door is opened to the outside with fixing a door
close.
f. In the buildings which is not required to have a chute system and the area of the floor is
more than (10,000) feet, a small rooms should be provided to collect trash bags. Its area is
not less than (4×6) feet in each floor where the width of the door is not less than (90)
centimeters and it can be opened to the outside and supplied with door closer with
providing mechanical ventilation. It is not stated to have ventilation through the louvers in
the door.
g. The chute can be replaced by alternative service elevator in an isolated area from the main
elevators with making small collecting rooms that have the same areas as the elevator in
each floor. The elevator should be close to the main trash rooms of the building.
h. The owner of the building or the person in charge is responsible for the cleanliness inside
the building and the surrounding outer places which are related to it till the limit of the
public street. He is responsible for transporting and carrying trash containers from the
trash rooms to the closet street in the times settled for this. In addition to this, putting the
containers back to the rooms after finishing unloading them.
i. The compactor is not considered a replacement for the number of containers or the area
of trash rooms.
j. If the location of the chute is away from the streets that surround the land, a room can be
made for collecting trash in a close place from the street or the track when there is no
street.
k. It is forbidden by any mean to put active chemical trash or toxic materials or liquids or
dangerous materials inside trash containers.
l. In order to contribute in environment protection, trash recycling should be done through
dedicating and classifying trash containers according to the main kinds of the thrown
materials.
Article (52): The measurements of the rooms and assemblages of trash:

a. In the buildings whose area is less than (2000) square feet, there should be a trash room
(4×6) feet only in the ground floor with providing mechanical ventilation for it where the
width of the door is not less than (90) centimeters and it should be supplied with door
closer.
b. In the building whose area is more than (2000) square feet , there should be trash rooms
according to the following:
1. Till (100)kg\m trash - one room which contain one (1.1) m3
container
2. Till (250)kg\m trash -A room which contain one (2.5) m3
container or two containers (1.4) m3 for
each container
3. Till (500)kg\m trash - A room which contain two(2.5) m3
containers
4. Till (750)kg\m trash - A room which contain three(2.5) m3
containers
5. Till (1000)kg\m trash - A room which contain four(2.5) m3
containers
6. More than (1000)kg\m trash -The number of rooms is settled
according to a special study or by
calculating:
the same previous rates
½the surplus amount from (1000)kg\m
c. Calculating the trash amounts should be according to the following rates:

1. Residential usage with a rate (12) kg\m for every (1000) square feet from the
used area.
2. Commercial usage with a rate (12) kg\m for every (1000) square feet from the
used area.
3. Office usage with a rate (5) kg\m for every (1000) square feet from the used
area.
4. Hotels with a rate (3) kg\m for each room and (5)kg\m for each suite and the
remaining elements are according to the kind of the activity.
d. The following measurements are approved to settle the areas of the rooms:
1. Trash rooms should contain all the required containers according to the
approved measurements for containers as the following:
- (1.1) cubic meters container (188 × 136) centimeters
- (2.5) cubic meters container (148 ×204) centimeters
2. Leaving (1) feet distance between the containers and the walls of the trash
room.
3. Leaving (1) feet distance among the containers from all sides.
4. Leaving (2) feet distance between the containers and the room frontage where
the door of the trash room is in it.
5. The width of the inner passage for the trash room should be not less than (4)
feet.
e. The width of the door of the trash room should be in a width that allows getting the
containers in and out easily where it should not be less than (6) feet as a limit inferior.
f. The height of the trash room should not be less than (8) feet as a limit inferior.
g. The measurement of the trash room and its door depends on the distribution way, the
movement of the containers inside it and the possibility to get to all containers and getting
them out.
h. In the hotels and the special establishments, hydraulic compactor can be provided after
presenting a special study and after the approval of the concerned administration where
its size should not be less than the required one.
i. In the educational establishments, there should be an assemblage for trash containers
which contains not less than two (2.5) m3 containers. One is for paper; the other is for the
remaining materials.
j. In the sanitary establishments, there should be an assemblage for trash containers which
contains not less than two (2.5) m3 containers as well as the special containers which are
necessary for the patients' rooms, offices and the administrative area where (12) kg\m is
for every (1000) square feet from its net area.
k. In the workers' residences, there should be an assemblage for trash containers which
contains the required number of containers where one (2.5) m3 container is for every
(10000) square feet from the total area of the buildings with a limit inferior which is one
container.
l. In the industrial establishments (warehouses or light industries shops), there should be an
assemblage for trash rooms with an area not less than (10 × 10) feet paved with tiles that
can be washed with supplying it with a water tap for washing. It contains the required
number of containers where one (2.5) m3 container is for every (20000) square feet from
the total area of the buildings. In the heavy industries places, the special big projects and
athletic clubs, trash rooms and the kind and the number of containers are settled
according to the special studies related to it to which competent administration approves.
m. In the residential villas, the following should be observed :
1. In the assemblages of invested villas, there should be rooms for
collecting trash according to the settled specifications in article(51)from
this list and according to the following table:
The number of villas The container capacity The number of containers
1 - 10 2.5 cubic meters 1
2. If the number of villas in an assemblage is more than (40) villas, it is not

calculated one (2.5) m3 container is for every (10) villas .Also, a study can
be presented for the trash collecting machinery from villas and
transporting it to the collecting stations which are equipped and
supplied with compactor containers providing that this machinery
should be approved by the concerned administration.
3. It is observed that if the number of containers in one assemblage is
more than what is settled in this article to add one more room to the
number of rooms.
n. It is allowed to replace the containers kind and size in the industrial area, the areas of
workers' residence and for some special projects in accordance to the approval of the
concerned administration.
Article (53): The constructional conditions:

a. The constructional design for buildings and establishments should be done by a qualified
constructional engineer who is authorized to do so and approved by the competent
administration.
b. The requirements for the qualification of the establishments:
In the building and the establishments with all their parts and the materials which are
included in their construction, there should be a sufficient quantity of safety and
continuity from the following factors:
1. The most dangerous forces and loads or their groups which affect the
establishment including the groups of the forces and the loads that may
lead to a successive collapse.
2. Any other effects including the corrosion and the rust of iron to which
the building can be exposed.
Article (54): The approved codes:

The establishments and the buildings should be designed according to the codes and the standard
specifications which are prevalent in Britain or the other codes which are approved by the competent
administration or whatever comes to it in a way that bring into effect the requirements of this list.
a. The codes of loads:
i. The live loads and the dead loads on the buildings:
The British code No: 6399 – the first part -1996 (BS 6399 part 1 1996) with observing
the following exceptions that were mentioned in the above codes:
1. The live load on the mezzanine floor should not be less than (5) KN\m2 in the
commercial and the industrial buildings.
2. The live load should not be less than (3.5) KN\m2 in the buildings of parking
lots and the parking floors in the other buildings.
3. The live load in the flat slabs design and the post tensioning should not be less
than (3) KN\m2 in all the buildings which can be exposed to live loads less than
this quantity. Also, the wall loads should be added to the live loads.
ii. The wind loads:
British code No: 6399 – the second part – 1995 (BS 6399 Part 1, 1995) or the British
code No: 3 – the fifth chapter – the second part – 1972 (CP3: Chapter V: part 2:
1972) with observing the main wind speed in Dubai emirate which is (45) m\ sec.
iii. The live loads on the roofs:
British code No: 6399 – the third part – 1988 (BS 6399 Part 3 1988) with observing
when calculating the dynamic effects and the load condensation resulting from the
machines of air-conditioners, water tanks, sand accumulation on the roof edges and
the effect of the landing of vertical aircrafts.
iv. The earthquake loads:
American uniform building code – chapter 16 –from the third division to the fifth –
1997 (UBC – Uniform Building Code – USA – chapter 16: Division lll to V -1997) with
observing the necessity of abiding by the following values for the factors that are
mentioned in the equation of calculating the statics vertical forces that are equal to
earthquake actions:-
1. The factor of intensity which depend on the area where it is taken
depending on the ground of the (2A) area.
2. The factor of soil which is taken depending on the ground of (Se) factor for
the littorals and the areas that have high underwater and sandy soil. This
factor is taken on the ground of (Sa To Sd) for the mountain and the rocky
areas.
b. The designing codes:-
i. The Foundations:
British code No: 8004 – 1986 (BS 8004:1986).
ii. The establishments of reinforced concrete or prestessed -concrete or plain concrete:-
British code No: (8110)
iii. The first part- 1997 – for designing and construction (BS 8110: part 1: 1997)
iv. The second part- 1985 – for special consideration in the design (BS 8110: part 2: 1985)
v. The third part – 1985 – the tables and the drawings of designing (BS 8110: part 3: 1985)
c. The metal establishments:
The British code No: 449 – the second part – 1969 or the British code No: 5950
d. The first part – 1985 (BS 5950 : part 1: 1985)
e. The second part – 1985 (BS 5950 : part 2: 1985)
f. The fourth part – 1982(BS 5950 : part 4: 1982)
g. The fifth part – 1987 (BS 5950 : part 5: 1987)
h. The establishments of compound metals:
British code 117 – the first part- 1965 (CP 117: part 1: 1965)
i. The establishments of concrete brick:
British code No: 5628 – part 1 -1978\ 1985 in cooperation with the third part from the
same code for 1985 and the local orders which are issued by the municipality
concerning the concrete brick.
(BS 5628: part1: 1978\ 1985 as read with BS 5628: part 3)
j. The aluminum establishments:
British code No: 118 1969 (CP 118: 1969)
k. The wood establishments:
British code No: 5268 – the second part-1989 and the third part – 1985 (BS 5628: part
2: 1989 & BS 5268: part 3: 1985)
l. The other designing codes:
Constructional designs can be done by going back to the codes of other building which are
not British providing that the approval of the competent administration should be got.
Article (55): The standards of designing and executing:-
a) In order to prevent having successive and unequal collapse in all the establishments with
(5)floors height or more (including the cellar floor), the following should be observed:
1. Designing the main and the sensitive elements in the establishments to
stand the exceptional outer force which is (34)KN/ m2 loaded one after the
other on all sides for this element as well as the other loads to which this
element is exposed.
2. Designing all the elements of the establishments in a way that surrounds any
collapse when it is happening about (70m2 or 15% of the area of floor no
matter which one is less and this is for the floor above it and the one under
it directly).
b) The requirements mentioned in section(a) from this article can be achieve for the
establishments with (5) floors height or more when it is being constructed after
considering the code recommendations concerning the links inside the building and the
result of misusing the establishment or in the case of accidents and this is after observing
the following:
1. The British specifications 8110 – clause 2.2.2.2: the first part: 1997 clause2.6:
the second part: 1985 and this is for the concrete establishments and the
prestessed concrete ones.
(BS 8110 clause2.2.2.2 part1: 1997 & clauses 2.6 part2: 1985)
2. The British specifications 5950 – clause 2.4.5.3: the first part: 1985 for metal
establishments (BS 5950 clause 2.4.5.3: part 1:1990).
3. British specifications 5628 – clause37: the first part:1985 for the brick
establishments (BS 5628 : clause37: part1:1985)
When observing the above mentioned clauses, it will decrease the
establishment capacity for successive or unequal collapse.
c) Designing against the effect of earthquake :
In order to achieve the requirements mentioned in section (a) from this list, the
establishment should be designed with (5) floors height or more for earthquake loads as it
was mentioned in clause (D-1-2).
d) Designing against the effect of vertical forces:
In the case of designing buildings for vertical forces , the building should be built for the
most powerful forces from earthquake forces, the wind forces or the theoretical vertical
central forces which are defined in clause (3-1-4-2 ) from the British specifications 8110-
the first part- 1997 (BS8110:part 1: clause 3.1.4.2: 1997)
But the details of arming iron should go with the designing requirements for earthquake
loads.
Article (56): Concrete brick establishments:

a. Walls should be built from plain concrete brick in a compacted and coherent
shape and by using cement supply. The specifications of brick should correspond
to the conditions that are mentioned in the regulations issued by the
municipality with observing not using light hollow brick in constructing bearing
walls. But when using this brick for non-bearing outer walls, the outer layer
should be treated with a layer of plaster or paint with dampness resistant
characteristics.
Brick walls should be designed according to the British specifications 562. The
first part -1978/1985 (BS 5628: part1: 1978/1985). The robustness of the brick
which is used for bearing walls should go with the walls thickness as the
following:
1. When using solid brick for the bearing walls of the building, the
robustness should not be less than (9N\mm2) for all the thicknesses of
walls.
2. When using hollow brick for the bearing walls of the building, whose
height is not more than two floors, the robustness should not be less
than (6N\mm2) and the wall thickness should not be less than
(200)millimeters.
3. It is not allowed to build bearing walls where the thickness is (150)
millimeters or less with a solid brick.
4. It is not allowed to use brick with a thickness which is less than (150)
millimeters for single bearing walls, but it can be used for double walls
with using links between them.
5. The above mentioned robustness is the average for robustness for ten
bricks chosen according to the British specifications 6073- the second
part.
6. Cement supply: The cement supply which is used in building walls
should be equal in force to (6:1:1) (Portland cement, lime, fine sand)
with the rates of the dry materials mass or according to the mentioned
rates in the British specifications 5628 – the first part- 1985/1978 for the
supply which is third degree with observing the harmony of the cement
supply with the brick and the place of its usage.
7. The walls links: British code No: 1243 – 1978 (BS 1243: 1978) for the
specifications of metal links used in double walls if these walls are not
exposed to strong environmental circumstances and in this case the
rustproof steel is used as it is mentioned in the British code No: 5628 –
the third part (BS 5628: part 3: 1985).
8. The sustaining walls: Bearing walls should be well- connected from its
two sides with a cross sustaining walls or with a concrete column where
these supports should be with sufficient dimension to support the
bearing walls on its entire height.
9. Cutting in walls; the depth of the vertical cutting in walls should not be
more than (⅓) of the thickness of the wall as well as the depth of the
horizontal cutting in walls should not be more than (1/6) of the wall with
observing that this cutting should not affect the balance of these walls.
Article (57): The tests of the soil and the foundations:

The following should be observed when designing the foundations (except the buildings with only one floor):
a. Doing field tests for the soil through a soil testing lab which is licensed in Dubai emirate with the
necessity to study the following technical aspects:
1. The quality of the layers of the soil and its features.
2. Geometrical recommendations about the robustness of the soil and the value of the
expected landing.
3. The level of the groundwater and its quality and contents.
4. The effect of the soil and the groundwater concerning the corrosion and the rust of iron.
5. The effect of ebb and flow on the foundation balance.
6. The requirements for supporting the digging sides.
7. The recommendation related to the quality of the foundations.
b. Digging sites should be settled on the location map and settling the coordinates according to the
areal reference of the municipality.
c. Recommendation with the specifications of the concrete and the cement which are suitable for the
soil of the location (according to the British specifications 5328- the first part- 1997 and CIRIA special
No: 31) (SB 5328: part 1: 1997 & CIRIA special No: 31) where the breaking force for the reinforced
concrete should not be less than (30 N/ mm2).
d. The foundations should be within the boarders of the land and the bases are not allowed to project
outside the boarders of the land where the depth of bases building should not be less than (900mm)
from the ground level and this is for protecting the bases from soil erosion and the dampness
variation resulting from the climate and the thermal circumstances.
e. Providing a system for draining the groundwater in order to prevent dampness leakage inside the
building.
f. When making deep digging for the floors of the cellar or others, there should be a protection system
to support the digging sides with observing that there should be a system for supporting the digging
sides inside the boarders of the land. The system of supporting the digging sides may go out the
boarder of the land from the street or the track side after getting a written approval from the
concerned administration. The design and the execution of supporting digging sides from safety with
a degree that does not affect the buildings and the next services.
g. It is not allowed to use drive pile in fixing the stakes or using vibro compaction or vibro replacement
in strengthening the soil. In the case of going back to this way in the foundations, a beforehand
approval must be got concerning this from the competent administration

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Article (4): The definitions:

Article (5): The Planning limits:

Article (7): The building heights:

- The shop 120 square feet 8 feet

Article (9) : Passages:

Article (10): Open galleries:

Article (11): Withdrawals:

Article (12): Natural light openings and vents:

Article (13): The openings:

Article (14): The skylight and the yard:

Article (15): Mechanical lighting, ventilation and central air-conditioning:

Article (16): Porches and projections in the street:

Article (17): Arbors:

Article (18): The Cellar floor (underground):

Article (19): The mezzanine:

e. It is stated for the elevator to reach the service of the rooftop.

Article (21): Stairs:

Article (22): Electric elevators:

Article (24): Parking lot:

Article (25): The technical conditions for parking lots:

o One parking lots for each studio.

3. They should be as far as possible with a distance approved by the

Article (26): Environmental conditions:

j. When designing residential units, there should be spaces or

Article (30): The additional extensions in residential villas:

Article (31): Workers' residence:

Article (32): Mosques:

Lavatories Sinks Ablution place Residence Parking lot Stopping

public places (parks

(1) (1) (2) -- -- --

The limit inferior for the area of the kitchen or

Activity The limit inferior for the area

Article (34): The educational buildings:

Article (35): Sanitary Buildings:

Article (36): Hotel establishments (hotels, motels and hotel apartments):

Article (37): The technical conditions for hotel establishments:

Article (38): Petroleum stations:

Article (39): Industrial establishments (warehouses, workshops, factories. . . etc)

Article (40): Loading and unloading places:

Article (41): Swimming pools:

Article (42): Sanitary Works:

Article (43): The regulations and the conditions of sanitary works:-

Article (44) Sanitary Facilities:

Article (45): Dissolution tanks and absorbing holes:-

Article (46): Draining rainwater:

Article (47): Water supplying:

Article (48): drinking water tanks:

Article (49): Storing house gas cylinders:-

Article (50): Insulating materials:

Article (52): The measurements of the rooms and assemblages of trash:

c. Calculating the trash amounts should be according to the following rates:

2. If the number of villas in an assemblage is more than (40) villas, it is not

Article (53): The constructional conditions:

Article (54): The approved codes:

Article (56): Concrete brick establishments:

Article (57): The tests of the soil and the foundations:

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