The National Building Code of India (NBC) is a prestigious publication of Bureau of Indian Standards formulated to lay down a set of minimum provisions for buildings designed to protect the safety of public with regard to structural sufficiency and life safety requirements etc including environmental concerns.
Keeping in mind, lot of developments in the techno-legal regime and techno-financial regime, BIS has decided to take up a comprehensive revision of NBC and bring out a state-of-the-art and most contemporary version of NBC dealing with futuristic developments, by next year as NBC 2015.
In this revision, it is proposed to incorporate new chapters relating to structural use of glass, solid waste management and asset and facility management. Besides this, various important aspects proposed to be incorporated in the revised version of NBC include detailed provisions relating to sustainability; single window approach and computerisation in building permit process.