Sunday 9 April 2017

New National Building Code of India 2016 edition

Much awaited National Building code of India has now come out with its new revised edition. http://bis.org.in/sf/nbc.asp

Metro chapter has been added in Part 4 as separate annexes  and a very detailed requirements have been provided. Also added is a complete chapter on requirements for persons with disabilities.

This will change the station sizing requirements and platform occupant load calculations. Egress elements need to be validated against the NBC-2016.