UNIFORM BUILDING BY - LAWS

BLDG TECH 242

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• In exercise of the powers conferred by section
133 of Street, Drainage and building Act 1974,
the Minister/State Authority makes the
following by-law:

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Subjects in Discussions
• Submission of Plans for Approval
– Plan submission & return of plans

– Supervision of work

– Plans to be signed

– Withdrawal or change of qualified person

– Plans to be deposited in triplicate

– Scale of plans

– Plans required
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– Exemption form by-law
Subjects in Discussions
• Submission of Plans for Approval (con’t)
– Sketch plans for approval in principle
– Special permission to commence building
operations
– Plans of alterations
– Specifications
– Details and calculations of structural plans
– Power of local authority to reject structural plans
and calculations

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Subjects in Discussions
• Submission of Plans for Approval (con’t)
– Permits

– Temporary permits

– Advertisement hoardings

– Materials not to be deposited in the street without

permission

– Notice of commencement or resumption of building

operations

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Subjects in Discussions

• Submission of Plans for Approval (con’t)

– Notice of completion of setting out

– Notice of completion of excavation for foundation

– Certificate of fitness for occupation

– Certificate of completion and compliance

– Temporary certificate of fitness for occupation

– Partial certificate of fitness for occupation

– Offence under the Act

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Subjects in Discussions
• Space, Light and Ventilation
– Open spaces to be provided
– Open spaces not to be altered or roofed
– Space about buildings abutting a street and a back-
lane
– Space about buildings on lots abutting a street and
having no back-lane
– Space about detached buildings
– Access from a street

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Subjects in Discussions
• Space, Light and Ventilation (con’t)
– Splayed corners
– Projections over the street and over the building line
– Width of footway
– Natural lighting and ventilation
– Air-wells
– Mechanical ventilation and air-conditioning
– Minimum area of rooms in residential buildings

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Subjects in Discussions

• Space, Light and Ventilation (con’t)

– Minimum dimension of latrines, water-closets and
bathrooms
– Height of rooms in residential buildings, shophouses,
schools etc…
– Height of rooms in place of public resort
– Height of rooms in other buildings
– Projections over a verandah-way

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Subjects in Discussions

• Space, Light and Ventilation (con’t)

– Commencement of building operation
– Responsibility of persons granted temporary
permits
– Cancellation of temporary permits
– Vehicular access to site
– Rising mains to be installed progressively

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Subjects in Discussions

• Structural Requirements
– Building materials
– General requirements of loading
– Dead and imposed loads
– Dead loads calculated from weights of materials
used
– Weight of partitions
– Contents of tanks and other receptacles
– Imposed floor loads

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Subjects in Discussions

• Structural Requirements (con’t)

– Mechanical stacking
– Imposed loads on ceilings, skylights and similar
structures
– Reduction in total imposed floor loads
– Imposed floor loads
– Curved roofs
– Roofing coverings
– Internal suspended loads on primary structural
members
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Subjects in Discussions

• Structural Requirements (con’t)

– Reinforced concrete foundations
– Strip foundations
– Brick footing
– Foundations below invert of drains
– Foundation under external and party walls
– Structure above foundations

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Subjects in Discussions

• Constructional Requirements
– Building Site
– Drainage of Subsoil
– Protection against soil erosion etc
– Prevention of dampness
– Nominal thickness of walls
– Recesse
– Chases
– Underpinning

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Subjects in Discussions

• Constructional Requirements (con’t)

– Coping, etc, to be impervious
– Projections in brick work
– Measurement of the length of wall
– Use of 100 millimeter brickwork and concrete
blocks in loadbearing walls
– External panel walls
– Non load bearing partition
– Timber build into party walls

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Subjects in Discussions

• Constructional Requirements (con’t)

– Fences and boundary walls
– Cooking facilities in residential buildings
– Cooking facilities in quarters
– Boiler, fireplaces, forges and incinerators in
factories
– Combustible materials adjoining smoke flues
– Timber floors
– Bearing for joists

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Subjects in Discussions

• Constructional Requirements (con’t)

– Spaces below floors to be ventilated
– Dimensions of staircases
– Handrails
– Maximum flights
– Winders
– No obstruction in staircases
– Lighting and ventilation of staircases
– Enclosure of staircases in a shop

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Subjects in Discussions

• Constructional Requirements (con’t)

– Use of timber staircases
– Timber roof
– Roofs covering and drainage
– Accessible flat roofs, balconies etc
– Access to roof spaces
– Refuse chutes and alternate means for disposal of
refuse
– Change of use of buildings

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Subjects in Discussions

• Constructional Requirements (con’t)

– Design and construction of refuse chutes
– Requirements for refuse receptacle chambers
– Pipes and services ducts
– Lifts
– Swimming pools
– Steps and footway

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Subjects in Discussions

Constructional Requirements (con’t)

– Openings into swimming pools

– Depth of water
– Location of diving boards
– Changing rooms
– Foot-bath and shower
– Private, residential swimming pools

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