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  • Maximum Depth Of Daylight Rooms

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    No part of a room having daylight openings shall be farther from the plane of such an opening than the distance measured perpendicular to that plane, set out in Table II for the area of daylight openings provided in the room. Table IIDepth Of Room Permitted For Various Areas Of Daylight Openings • For intermediate…

  • Alcoves In Daylight Rooms

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    (1) In a room having required daylight openings, the sum of the floor areas of alcoves and the like, which are not directly visible from at least one required daylight opening, shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total floor area of the room. (2) Portions of screens and partitions which are glazed with…

  • Areas Of Required Daylight Openings

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    (1) General requirements. —Subject to the provisions of this section, required daylight openings in any room shall have a total area admitting daylight, that is excluding the frame-members in accordance with the requirements of Table I Table IMinimum permissible areas of required daylight openings (2) Required daylight openings under projections. – If a required daylight…

  • Position Of Required Daylight Openings

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    Only openings or portions of openings which are situated above the level of 300 millimetres above the floor of a room shall be included in the area of required daylight openings.

  • Required Daylight Openings

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    (1) Subject to the provisions of Part II, in all buildings, every habitable room (except shops conducting, every habitable room (except) shops conducting retail business, restaurants, tea-rooms, store-rooms, cinemas, theatres, bars and kitchenettes having a floor area of less than 5 square metres), shall be provided with openings for the direct admittance of daylight. (2)…

  • Interpretation Of Terms

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    In this Chapter— “Habitable room” means any room design for human occupation, but excluding bath-rooms, water-closets, stairways, passageways, lift-cars, photographic dark rooms, sculleries, domestic laundries, cold rooms or garages used for parking alone

  • Cover Over Reinforcement In Reinforcement Brickwork

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    (1) In reinforcement brickwork, the reinforcement shall have the cover prescribed by this section: Provided that the local authority may require a cover greater than that so prescribed where it considers that the latter is not adequate to prevent corrosion of the reinforcement under the particularly corrosive conditions which exist at the building site. (2)…

  • Detailed Requirements For Reinforced-Brick Walls

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    In reinforced-brick walls, the following requirements shall be complied with- a) where- i) the stresses in bearing-walls designed in accordance with sections 75 to 82 exceed those permitted in sections 67 and 68; and ii) such walls are required to sustain lateral forces or loads with an eccentricity greater than one-sixth of the thickness of…

  • Detailed Requirements For Reinforced-Brick Columns

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    a) the total cross-sectional area of the longitudinal steel reinforcement shall not be less than 0,4 per centum of the gross cross-sectional area of the column; b) there shall be at least one bar for each salient angle in the cross-section of the column; c) lateral ties shall be provided of a total volume of…

  • Permissible Stresses In Reinforcement Brickwork

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    (1) The stresses in reinforced brickwork shall not exceed, in any part, the values set out in Table XXVI . (2) The direct compressive stress and the compressive stress due to bending in members with slenderness ratios other than 12 shall not exceed the values set out Table XXVII for the strength of brick concerned,…