Page 17 - Building Regulation Design Guidelines - Architecture Book (Blue Code)

SEcTION 2 DEFINITIONS SEcTION: 2 DEFINITIONS
In applying these regulations, the meanings listed below will be attributed to the
words and phrases listed beside them, unless the context specifies a different
meaning:
Accessible Route: The unobstructed path continuously connecting to all
accessible elements and space of the building or facility. Interior accessible
routes may include corridors, floors, ramps, elevators, and clear floor space at
fixtures while exterior accessible routes may include parking access aisles, curb
ramps, walkways, ramps, and crosswalks at vehicular ways.
Addition: An expansion, extension, or increase in the gross floor area or height
of buildings or facilities.
Additional Ventilation: This is installed in rooms whose depth is more than three
times their width, to provide natural ventilation and lighting for the internal
spaces through an opening or a shaft with a minimum area of 5% of the space
area and minimum width of 1.2 meter.
Affection Plan (Lease Drawing): Plan of the plot or site issued by the Authority,
Planning and Survey Department or Business Units, showing but not limited to the
plot boundaries, dimensions, areas and surroundings as well as the land uses.
Alleyway (Sikka): The area of a public or private path, which can be used by
pedestrians or as a secondary way to any plot. It does not appear as a public road
or street in the Emirate’s outline plan.
Annex: A building or installation attached to or independent from the main
building, whose use is secondary or complementary to the function of the main
building.
Arcade: A series of arches supported on columns or piers. A flat or blind arcade
is applied to a wall to articulate the surface.
Atrium: A large volume of space created by series of floors or floors openings
connecting two or more stories, covered at the top, and are used for purposes
other than a closed stairway, an elevator hoist way, an escalator opening, or as a
utility shaft used for Services.
Authority: Shall mean Civil Engineering Division- Trakhees- Ports, Customs and
Free Zone Corporation.
Automatic Door: A door equipped with a power-operated mechanism and controls
that open and close the door automatically upon receipt of a momentary actuating
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signal. The switch that begins the automatic cycle may be a photoelectric device,
floor mat, or manual switch.
Bathroom: A room containing a toilet bowl, washbasin and bathtub or bathtub/
shower combination. A toilet and washbasin (no bathtub or shower) equals a half
bathroom and a toilet, washbasin and shower, equals a three-quarter bathroom.
Building: Any structure intended for use in supporting, sheltering or occupancy.
Building Permit: The license that the Authority issues to allow construction
work to proceed on a specific piece of land, in accordance with approved plans,
specifications and conditions.
Building Permit Committee: The committee set up by the Authority to study
building permit applications and to take suitable decisions in this regard.
Building Specifications: A statement of building requirements describing the
loading conditions, design practices, materials, finishes and their quality.
Circulation Path: An exterior or interior way of passage from one place to another
for pedestrians including, but not limited to corridors, hallways, courtyards,
stairways and stair landings.
Clear: Unobstructed.
Commercial Building: A Building in which commercial business activities are
permitted in accordance with statutory classification of lands.
Comprehensive Development: A development containing any number of
buildings or uses on a site or a combination of sites, planned or developed in
an integrated.
Component: An element or space in a building or facility.
Consultant: A registered consultant holding a valid consulting engineer’s license
from Dubai Economic Department.
Contractor: A registered contractor holding a valid contracting engineer’s license
from Dubai Economic Department.
Court Yard: An open, uncovered, unoccupied space, unobstructed to the sky,
bounded on three or more sides by exterior building walls and has rooms of one
or more residential or office units overlooking it. (figure -1)
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