2.26 BUILDING WORKS:
Shall mean the erection, construction, alteration, extension, repair, demolition and removal of a building or structure and shall include work with connection with material change of use and/or improvement to a building.
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2.25 BUILDING PLANS:
Shall mean design drawings with specifications representing intent to develop a building as prepared by registered architects, structural and services drawings prepared by registered engineers and based on survey plan prepared by a registered surveyor.
2.24 BUILDING MAINTENANCE MANUAL:
Shall mean a comprehensive guide, which will include appropriate forms and log books for the maintenance of a building prepared by a consortium of registered architects, registered builders and registered engineers.
2.23 BUILDING LINE:
Shall mean the line established by law, beyond which a building cannot extend, except as specifically provided by law.
2.22 BUILDING HEIGHT (IN STOREYS)
Shall mean the number of storeys contained between the roof and the floor of the first storey. (see 2.106 for definition of STOREY)
2.21 BUILDING CONDITION SURVEY REPORT:
Shall mean a comprehensive report of the actual conditions of all the elements, components and installations of a building and prepared by a consortium of registered architects, registered builders, registered engineers and registered quantity surveyors.
2.20 BUILDING AREA:
Shall mean for purpose of site planning, the greatest horizontal area of a building above ground level within the outside surface of exterior walls and the property boundary line.
2.19 BUILDING:
Shall mean any structure or enclosure of space with a roof and walls for protection of life and property.
2.18 BAY:
As applied to a structure, shall mean the space between two adjacent piers or two adjacent lines of columns.
2.17 BASEMENT:
Shall mean that portion of a building, which is partly or completely below ground level. This section of the building may be a part of the foundation but shall be specifically different from it, and shall contain humanly useful spaces, set out on one or more floors, but shall not extend beyond 1.20m above ground level to the top of the ground floor level. See more ...
2.16 BALCONY:
As pertains to Group C, H and F buildings (education, residential, institutional buildings) shall mean a platform adjacent to a habitable space the lower part of which is raised 1.2m or more above grade.
2.15 BALCONY:
As pertains to assembly buildings shall mean that portion of the seating space of an assembly room, the lowest of which is raised 1.2m or more above the level of the main floor .
2.14 ATTIC HABITABLE:
Shall mean an attic which has a stairway as a means of access and egress and in which the ceiling area at a height of 2.25m above the attic floor is not more than one-third the area of the next floor below.
2.13 ATTIC:
Shall mean the space between the roof and the ceiling of the top storey or between a dwarf wall and a sloping roof.
2.12 ATRIUM:
Shall mean an opening through two or more floors other than enclosed stairways, elevators, hoistways, escalators, plumbing, electrical, air-conditioning or other equipment which is closed at the top and not defined as a mall.
2.11 AS-BUILT DRAWINGS:
Shall mean all architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical and other specialist drawings showing the building as built, prepared by registered architects and registered engineers and as-built survey prepared by registered surveyors.