Warehouse Building
Introduction
Warehouse Building is a structure specifically designed for storage purposes. This includes any building or part of a building primarily used for storing or sheltering goods, merchandise (excluding highly combustible or explosive materials), vehicles, or animals. Examples include warehouses, cold storages, freight depots, transit sheds, storehouses, truck and marine terminals, garages, hangars, grain elevators, barns, and stables. Storage facilities typically have a relatively low number of occupants compared to their size. If the building’s use changes in a way that significantly increases the number of occupants to a level comparable with other occupancy types, the building’s classification must be updated to reflect its new use. For example, this would apply to hangars repurposed for assembly, warehouses converted to office spaces, or garages used for manufacturing.
Hazardous Building
Hazardous Building is a structure specifically designed to accommodate activities involving dangerous materials. This includes any building or part of a building used for the storage, handling, manufacturing, or processing of highly combustible or explosive materials that are prone to rapid ignition, producing poisonous fumes, or causing explosions. It also covers facilities involved in the storage, handling, manufacturing, or processing of highly corrosive, toxic, or noxious substances, such as alkalis, acids, or other chemicals that produce flames, fumes, explosive gases, poisonous vapours, or corrosive emissions. Additionally, hazardous buildings include those where materials are stored, handled, or processed in a way that produces explosive dust mixtures, leading to the formation of fine particles susceptible to spontaneous ignition.
Examples of buildings in this category include:
a) Facilities storing gases under pressure greater than 0.1 N/mm² and in quantities exceeding 70 m³, such as acetylene, hydrogen, natural gases, ammonia, chlorine, phosgene, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, methyl oxide, cryogenic gases, and others prone to explosion, fume, or toxic hazards.
b) Facilities involved in the storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable liquids or liquefiable gases, including LPG and rocket propellants.
c) Buildings used for the storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable or explosive materials (excluding liquids).
d) Facilities where the manufacture of products such as artificial flowers, synthetic leather, ammunition, explosives, and fireworks takes place.
According to the Telangana Disaster Response and Fire Services Department’s circular memorandum,
• A Fire NOC is required for buildings that exceed 15 meters in height but the setback of these buildings must be as per GO 168 MA&UD
According to the National Building Code of India (NBC) and Department of Factories
• A Fire Safety Audit and certifications are mandatory, which shall be obtain by the competent person or charted fire auditor by the council
| Sno: | Type of Building Occupancy | Fire Extinguisher | Fire Hose Reel | Fire Hydrant | Fire Sprinkler | Fire Alarm System (Manually) |
Fire Alarm System
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| WAREHOUSE (STORAGE) BUILDINGS (H) | ||||||||
| a) |
Less than 15m height & area upto 250m2
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R | NR | NR | R | NR | NR | |
| b) | Less than 15m height & area more than 250m2 | R | NR | NR | R | NR | NR | |
| b.1 | Ground floor only | R | R | R | R | R | R | |
| b.2 | Ground plus one floor | R | R | R | R | R | R | |
| b.3 | More than ground plus one floor | R | R | R | R | R | R | c) | Multi-Level Car Parking (MLCP) | R | R | R | R | R | NR |
| HAZARDOUS BUILDINGS (J) | ||||||||
| a) |
Less than 15m height and one floor only
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R | R | R | R | R | R | |
| b) |
Less than 15m height and more than one floor
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R | R | R | R | R | R | |
R- Required NR- Not Required