The Hindu : 'Building code draft will be ready by year-end'

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Thursday, Oct 30, 2003

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'Building code draft will be ready by year-end'

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI OCT. 29. The final draft of the National Building Code will be ready by year-end. The revised code would lay emphasis on the safety and durability aspects of the structures during natural calamities such as earthquakes and cyclones.

Addressing a seminar, H.C. Visvesvaraya, Chairman of the National Building Code Selection Committee, said revision of the existing codes would be completed by December.

The committee, constituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards, is preparing the final draft proposals, with the active participation of the private sector, he said.

More than 40 meetings of various sub-committees have been held seeking a consensus on various codes. The National Building Code came into force on December 2, 1972, and it was revised in 1982.

The BIS Director-General, Nirmal Singh, hoped that the codes would be strictly adhered to at the grassroots level and advocated simpler norms for various approvals required for building construction.

V. Suresh, vice-chairman of the committee, said the code would contain the latest norms on techno-financing and dwell on techno-legal issues.

The revised codes will have 25 chapters divided into 10 parts, while Part Zero will speak about an integrated approach to implement the codes. Part V will spell out norms for structural design; Part IV will incorporate, for the first time, norms on life safety and Part III on guidelines for low-income housing.

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