Additional Occupancy-wise Requirements

20. Concept of progressive evacuation in case of hospital buildings has been included in detail to ensure life safety of the inmates.

21. Provisions relating to requirement of refuge area have been updated including for D-6 occupancy and introduced for apartment buildings of height 60 m and above.

22. Separate provisions on atrium have been included in Annex F.

23. Detailed separate provisions have been included on commercial kitchens in Annex G.

24. Detailed separate provisions have been included on car parking facilities in Annex H.

25. Separate provisions on fire and life safety requirements for metro stations and metro trainways have been included in Annex J and Annex K, respectively.

PART 4 FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY

For provisions relating to universal accessibility and barrier-free environment Part 3 ‘Development Control Rules and General Building Requirements’ of the Code may be referred.

All standards cross-referred to in the main text of this Part, are subject to revision. The parties to agreement based on this Part are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards.

For the purpose of deciding whether a particular requirement of this Part of the Code is complied with, the final value, observed or calculated, expressing the result of a test or analysis, shall be rounded off in accordance with IS 2 : 1960 ‘Rules for rounding off numerical values (revised)’. The number of significant places retained in the rounded off value should be the same as that of the specified value in this Part.