National Building Code 2005

Part IV on Fire and Life

Safety gives the Planning
Considerations for Buildings

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NBC Considerations
Any area exceeding 500 m2 shall be
divided into compartments by fire
resistant walls

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Staircase/Exit Requirements
Minimum width the minimum width of
staircase shall be as follows:
a) Residential buildings (dwellings) 1.0 m
NOTE for row housing with 2 storeys,
the minimum width shall be 0.75 m

b) Residential hotel buildings 1.5 m

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Staircase/Exit Requirements
Minimum width the minimum width of
staircase shall be as follows:
c) Assembly Buildings like Auditoria,
Theatres, Cinema Halls, etc. 2.0 m
d) Educational Building- 1.5 m
e) Industrial Building- 2.0 m
f) All other Buildings- 1.5 m

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Staircase/Exit
Requirements
The minimum width of
tread without nosing shall
be 250 mm for residential
buildings
The minimum width of
tread for other buildings
shall be 300 mm
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Staircase/Exit Requirements
The maximum height of riser shall be-

190 mm for residential buildings and

50 mm for other buildings and
these shall be limited to 16 per flight

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Staircase/Exit
Requirements
The minimum headroom in a passage under
the landing of a staircase
shall be 2.2 m
The minimum clear
head-room in any
staircase shall be 2.2 m
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Staircase/Exit Requirements
All aspects of exit requirements for
corridors, doors, staircases, ramps, etc.
in respect of widths, travel distance shall
be as per NBC 2005, Part 4 Fire and
Life Safety
Lobbies should not carry more than 30
people per 100m2

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Provisions for Physically Handicapped
The minimum width of corridors in buildings
serving patients bedrooms and from the point of
view of physically handicapped people, shall be
2400 mm

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Requirements of IS 16431977
some persons or people should be
trained to use methods & equipments
according to IS 1648-1961
All fire escape routes, emergency exits,
and location of fire fighting equipment
should be clearly marked and sign
posted, both in English and in the local
language

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Requirements of IS
1643-1977
Warning and alarm
devices are installed
Fire resisting doors or
roller shutters conforming to
relevant Indian Standard
are provided at selected
places along all escape
routes
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Fire Resisting Door

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Requirements of IS
1643-1977
Typical corridor and
lobby escape routes
should be as shown in IS
I 643-77

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Requirements of IS
1643-1977
Roof Escapes: The roof
or any associated routes
shall have direct access
to the ground
Horizontal Escapes: The
application shall depend
on the layout of the
building and any adjoining
building(s)
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Requirements of IS
1643-1977
Fire Escape Chutes: The
Special Tunnels provided
for rescue operations

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Internal Staircases :
The factors used in the calculation
for width of internal staircases are:
(a) Unit Width: Fifty centimetres
shall be considered the unit
width required by people moving
in single line
(b) Experiments have shown that 40
people can easily be evacuated
per minute through a one- unit,
width. The rate of evacuation is
also known as 'discharge rate
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Internal Staircases :
The factors used in the
calculation for width of
internal staircases are:
c) Each storey of a building
shall be evacuated on to
the stairs in a maximum
time of 2-1/2 minutes and
the ground floor in the
same interval
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STAIRCASES SERVING A SINGLE
FLOOR :

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