Dubai Municipality Department of Buildings & Housing Building Code Regulations & Construction Specifications PDF

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Dubai Municipality Department of Buildings & Housing Building Code Regulations & Construction Specifications February 2004 Page 1 of 93 Index Sr Description Page 1 Administrative Resolution No. (125) for 2001 endorsing the Building code Regulations & Construction Specifications 2 Article...

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Dubai Municipality Department of Buildings & Housing

Building Code Regulations & Construction Specifications February 2004

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Administrative Resolution No. (125) for 2001 endorsing the Building code Regulations & Construction Specifications Article (1) Name of the Regulation Article (2) Interpretation of the Regulation Article (3) Complementary Regulations Article (4) Definitions Article (5) Two Planning Limitations Article (6) Minimum Plot Area Article (7) Heights of Buildings Article (8) Minimum Permissible room area Article (9) Passengers / corridors in public buildings Article (10) Colonnades Article (11) Set backs Article (12) natural skylight openings and natural ventilation Article (13) Openings Article (14) Chute and yard Article (15) Lighting, mechanical ventilation and central air conditioning Article (16) Balconies and road projections Article (17) Pergolas / trellis Article (18) Basement floor Article (19) Mezzanine floor Article (20) The roof top Article (21) Staircases Article (22) Electricity-operated lifts Article (23) Ramps Article (24) Car parking Article (25) Technical requirements for car parking areas Article (26) Environmental requirements Article (27) Requirements for people with special needs Article (28) Utilities (electricity, telephone, domestic water, drainage, building services) Article (29) Fire protection and safety requirements Article (30) additional annexes attached to residential villas Article (31)Labour accommodation Article (32) Mosques Article (33) Public health requirements for buildings that house businesses such as restaurants, foodstuff, coffee shops,..etc. Article (34) Educational buildings Article (35) Health care buildings Article (36) Hotel buildings (hotels, motel, hotel apartments) Article (37) Technical requirements for hotel buildings

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Article (38) Petrol dispensing stations Article (39) Industrial buildings (warehouses, workshops, factories,..etc.) Article (40) Loading / unloading bays Article (41) Swimming pools Article (42) Plumbing works Article (43) Conditions applicable to plumbing works Article (44) Sanitary ware fittings Article (45) Septic tanks and cesspools/cesspits Article (46) Rainwater drainage Article (47) Domestic water supply Article (48) Domestic water tanks Article (49) Storage of domestic cooking gas Article (50) Insulation material Article (51) Requirements for garbage rooms and containers Article (52) Dimensions of garbage rooms and containers Article (53) Structural requirements Article (54) Approved codes Article (55) Design and execution criteria Article (56) Concrete block structures Article (57) Soil tests and foundations (sub structures) Last page

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Building code regulations & construction Specifications

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Article (1) This regulation shall be called “Building Code Regulations & construction Specifications”. Article (2) Whenever any disputes arises in respect of the implementation of any of the articles of this regulation, or in case of any ambiguity in specification or standard criteria, the interpretation made by the competent authority acting through the Buildings Permits Committee shall be the finally approved interpretation of this ambiguous article or specification. Article (3) The following terms and conditions stipulated under these Regulations shall form an integral and complementary part of the technical terms and conditions applicable at the competent Department: -

Conditions and technical specifications for structural works.

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Conditions and technical specifications for drainage works.

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Conditions and technical specifications for road and car parking works.

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Conditions and technical specifications stipulated under environmental protection legislation and occupational / industrial safety.

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Conditions and technical specifications applicable to firms of foodstuff businesses.

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Conditions and technical specifications applicable to hotel buildings and criteria for classification.

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Conditions and technical specifications for protection from fire hazards.

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Conditions and technical specifications for public health and safety.

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Conditions and technical specifications stipulated under the legislation applicable to land classification and uses.

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Conditions and technical specifications applicable to heat insulation as stipulated in the heat resistance regulations.

Any other conditions or technical specifications applicable at the competent department. Article (4) Page 5 of 93

In the implementation of provisions of this Regulation, and unless the context indicates otherwise, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings shown against each: The Emirate

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The Emirate of Dubai

Municipality

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Municipality of Dubai

Director General

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Director General of Municipality

Competent Department

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Department of Buildings and Housing

Department Concerned

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The department from which the Competent Department seeks technical advice on a certain topic.

Client

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Natural or corporate person in whose name the plot of land or building is registered whether in his/ its capacity as landlord or possessor or tenant the plot of land or building is registered whether in his/its capacity as landlord or possessor or tenant.

Buildings Permits Committee

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The committee formed at the Competent Department by a resolution from the Director General in order to study applications for procurement of construction permits and to take appropriate decisions in connection therewith.

The Engineer

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Natural or corporate person assigned to prepare the design or supervise the construction works or both, and licensed to practice the engineering consultations profession in the Emirate in accordance with enforceable legislation.

The Contractor

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Natural or corporate person assigned to execute the construction works in the Emirates in accordance with enforceable legislation.

The Inspector

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The engineer or supervisor employed by the Competent Department.

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Every person using wheel chair or crutches or

People

with

Special

Needs

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(Handicapped)

is assisted in walking with artificial means, including the paralyzed person, the person without limbs, the blind, the deaf, old and sick persons who are unable to walk naturally.

Construction Permit

:

Permit issued by the Competent Department in order to authorize construction works to be executed on a specific plot of land in accordance with approved drawings and specifications.

Special Approvals

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Approval granted by parties empowered by law to authorize exemption from applying one or more of the Articles of this Regulation or from any other legislation related to construction works.

Site

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Plot of land.

Plot

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Any plot or area of land defined by the length of its sides, its identification code reference, location and allocated for construction as per any drawing or town planning land allocation or any other means, provided that law permits its use as one unit for construction purpose.

Plot boundary Line

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Boundary line for a Plot.

Plot Area

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Total area of any Plot between its Boundary Lines.

Plot Plan

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Site plan or affection plan issued by the Department of Planning & Surveying at the Municipality, showing the plot boundaries, dimensions, area and neighbors.

Road or Street

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Public or private road carriage way allocated for vehicle or pedestrian use or both, as specified under the drawings annexed to the regulations for classification and functional use of lands in the Emirate.

Access Approach

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Any public or private road corridor that can be used as a secondary access on foot to any Plot that it leads to without being shown as a Street or public Road in the Emirate’s general

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structural layout. Road Corridor’s Line

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The official line that separates between the Road and any Plot that is situated thereon. It is also called the end line to the road corridor.

Plot’s Front Line

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The Plot’s boundary line that overlooks the Road or the Access Approach Road if the Plot does not overlook the road as shown in the approved detailed drawings for classification of land uses.

Plot’s Side Line

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Plot’s Rear Line

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Any Plot’s boundary line other than the front or rear. Plot’s boundary line opposite its Front Line and as far as possible therefrom.

Centreline

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The longitudinal line that cuts the Street or Access Approach Road or Road approved by Municipality.

Plot coverage

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Horizontal area occupied by all main and annex buildings on the same Plot, calculated from the external surfaces of external walls or useful roofed balconies in the ground or upper floors, whichever have more projections. Non functional beautifying projections less than 1.5 feet shall not be included in calculating the coverage.

Boundary Wall or Fence

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Artificial boundary wall constructed from any approved material(s) in order to surround a Plot of land, intended either for concealing view or for any other acceptable reason.

Neighbors

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Any neighboring Plot, excluding Roads and passages.

Central Business Area

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Dubai old area as defined on the map annexed to the Bylaws for Classification of Lawful Use of Plots.

Folkloric Buildings

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Buildings comprising folkloric architectural elements, whether situated inside the historical area, with no demolition or variation works shall be authorized except after obtaining

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preliminary approval from the Department concerned. The Building

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Any construction to be erected at a fixed site on the ground or to be fixed on a building that has a fixed site on the ground, whether the structure was from rock, concrete, steel, wood, or mud or any other material used for construction purpose. This shall include foundations, walls, roofs, projections, boundary walls and others.

Temporary Building

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Any structure intended to be removed from its site upon expiry of the period specified for business or functional use for which purpose the building was constructed.

Main Building

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Building used for the main or prime functional use of the Plot.

annexes

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A building or structure attached to or independent from the Main Building and used for purposes considered to be secondary or complementary to the main functional use of the Building.

Building Height

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Vertical distance measured from the level of platform kerbstone level of adjacent road, approved as datum for calculating level of ground floor tiles, up to the highest roof of the building. This shall not include any shed on the roof top or stair case roof or roof of mechanical equipment or services existing at the roof top level. In other words, it is the vertical distance calculated from finished ground level up to the highest point of the finished roof level of the building.

Building Extension

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Extension of the external wall of the building and the ground level situated on one or more sides of the building overlooking a public raod.

Projection

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Any projection that extends outside the vertical external wall of the floor underneath such part.

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Commercial Buildings

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Buildings in which commercial business is permitted to be conducted in accordance with statutory classification of lands.

Authorized Functional Use

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Any use of a plot or occupation of a building authorized in a certain area as per the statutory classification of the lands in the Emirate.

Main Functional Use

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The main or prevailing functional use, either existing or proposed or authorized pursuant to special Approvals issued for any specific plot.

Secondary Functional Use

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Secondary functional uses for the same plot of the main functional use, such as servants quarters, car parking space, and other secondary functional uses.

Commercial Centre

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A group of shops or areas used for commercial purposes and have a total commercial area of not less than 10 thousand square feet that open to covered air conditioned halls or internal passages. Also any shops or showroom of a commercial exceeding 10 thousand square meters and used for retail sale of commodities and are visited by large number of people.

Hotel Building

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Hotel or motel or hotel apartments.

Hotel

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A building or independent part of a building comprising not less than ten bedrooms and providing accommodation and meals against monetary consideration. A bathroom shall be attached to each bedroom.

Hotel Apartments

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A number, not less than 8, of furnished villas or apartments or studios, to be rented to guests on basis of daily or weekly or monthly or yearly rent.

Inn

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Either a building or a totally independent part of a building comprising not less than ten bedrooms and providing accommodation and meals against a financial consideration, with percentage common bathrooms.

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Group Sharing Accommodation

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A building used for accommodating a group of people who belong to one body (such as a university, boarding school, hospital, company, …etc.) and comprising more than one room.

Labour Accommodation

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A building used for group accommodation for workers of a company or a firm, for which the services (toilets, bathrooms, sinks, showers) shall be common, and it includes a kitchen, common dining hall, separate rooms for supervisors at the rate of one supervisor’s room for each (40) labour.

Investment Villas

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A compound comprising a number of attached or semi attached villas, with common open space and common recreational areas. Ownership shall not be split between more than one owner except if statutory setbacks shall exist between them.

Private Villa

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Independent or semi attached building allocated for accommodating one single family in all its floors, with one entrance on the ground floor and an independent car parking space in addition to independent external open yards.

Arab Style House

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Building allocated for accommodating one single family, to be constructed on the full area of the Plot without any setback on all side. All openings overlooking an internal yard of not less than (15 x 15) square feet and the house includes one (kitchen) space for preparation of meals and at least one bathroom and one car parking space.

Showroom

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Any space allocated for conducting a commercial business such as displaying commodities for purpose of wholesale or retail sale and has a façade not less than (30) feet that overlooks the road.

Shop

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any space of not less than (120) square feet allocated for conducting a commercial business such as displaying commodities for purpose of wholesale or retail sale.

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Office

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Space allocated for office work and has an area of not less than (100) square feet.

Room

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Space allocated for accommodation or any other purpose that requires people to stay either on permanent or temporary basis and has an area of not less 100 square feet.

Kitchen

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Space allocated for purpose of preparation of meals and beverages and has an area of not less than (40) square feet. One kitchen only shall be permitted for each one single accommodation unit.

Pantry (kitchenette)

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Space allocated for preparation of snacks and shall not serve in lieu of main kitchen in residential units.

Apartment (residential unit)

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Part of a building allocated for accommodation purpose, comprising one or more rooms and a lobby / hall and has an area of not less than (100) square feet, designed and equipped for accommodating one or more persons. It includes one space only for preparing and cooking meals (kitchen) and at least one bathroom. It constitutes one independent leasing unit.

Studio

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Part of a building allocated for accommodation purpose, comprising only one room designed for one or more persons and including space for preparing and cooking meals and one bathroom. It constitutes one independent leasing unit.

Guard Room

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On room or unit or accommodation space situated on the same plot on which the main building is constructed or situated inside the building and allocated for accommodating the building guard. Its area shall not be less than (70) square feet.

Servants Quarters

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One or more rooms adjacent / attached to or separate from each other, constructed on the same plot on which the main building is

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situated and is/are allocated for accommodating servant’s employed by the main building’s occupants. Area of the room shall not be less than 70 square feet. Store

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Covered part of a building used as a storage area for material. Such space may be used for collecting and sorting material for purpose of shipping or storage without introducing any change in the chemical or physical characteristics of such material.

Open Yard Store

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Uncovered area in which material commodities or vehicles are stored.

Garage

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Building or structure or portions thereof used or allocated for vehicle parking or storage. It could be covered or uncovered.

Shed

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Projected cover that extends outside the external wall of any building or a cover supported by a column in order to protect any door or window or passage from rain or from solar effect.

Staircase

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Space inside the building within which the stairs are erected.

Pergola

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Shed using non solid material comprising openings of not less than 50% of the tot...