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1) Inclusion
of a complete philosophy and direction for successfully accomplishing
the building projects through Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach right
through conceptual stage to planning, designing, construction, operation
and maintenance stages
2) A series of reforms in building permit process
3) Provisions to ensure and certification of safety of buildings against
natural disaster by engineer and structural engineer
4) Provision for two stage permit for high rise and special buildings
5) Provision for periodic renewal certificate of occupied buildings from
structural, fire and electrical safety point of view
6) Provision for empowering engineers and architects for sanctioning plans
of residential buildings up to 500 m2
7) Inclusion of detailed town planning norms for various amenities such
as educational facilities, medical facilities, distribution services,
police, civil defence and home guards and fire services
8) Revision of parking requirements for metro and mega cities
9) Up-dation of special requirements for low income housing for urban
areas
10) Inclusion of special requirements for low income housing rural habitat
planning
11) Revision of the provisions for buildings and facilities for physically
challenged
12) Fire safety norms completely revamped through detailed provisions
on Fire Prevention, Life Safety and Fire Protection
13) Inclusion of new categories of starred hotels, heritage structures
and archeological monuments for fire safety provisions
14) Substitution of halon based fire/extinguishers fire fighting system
15) Promotion to new/innovative building materials/technologies
16) Inclusion of latest provisions for earthquake resistant design and
construction
17) Inclusion of details on mult-disaster prone districts
18) Inclusion of new chapter on design and construction using bamboo
19) Chapter on prefabricated and composite construction for speedier construction
20) Updation of provision of safety in construction
21) Complete revision of provision on building and plumbing services in
line with applicable international practices
22) Provisions on rain water harvesting
23) Inclusion of new chapter to cover landscaping needs
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