/ Standards · standard
National Building Code 2016 (India).
Also known as · NBC · NBC 2016 · National Building Code
India's umbrella building-services code. Sets fire and life-safety, structural, building-services and accessibility requirements that every ELV, fire, PA and BMS scope must cite line-by-line.
- Entity kind
- standard
- Relevance
- 100 / 100
- Authority
- 100 / 100
- Aliases
- NBC · NBC 2016 · National Building Code
/ Engineering meaning
What it is and where it sits
India's umbrella building-services code. Sets fire and life-safety, structural, building-services and accessibility requirements that every ELV, fire, PA and BMS scope must cite line-by-line.
Tags · compliance · fire · india
Engineering graph
What this connects to (outgoing edges)
Engineering graph
What references this (incoming edges)
Interoperability
Interoperability matrices that feature this entity
Engineering toolkit
Tools that touch this
reference
NBC Compliance Checker
Building height, type and occupancy in — list of mandatory life-safety and ELV systems out, citing NBC 2016 and the relevant IS codes.
reference
NBC Fire-Safety by State
State, building height and occupancy in — list of sprinkler, addressable FA, voice-evac PA, wet-riser and Fire-NOC triggers out, with gazette citations. Eight Indian states resolved against the NBC 2016 baseline.
Glossary
Related glossary terms
Compliance
NBC 2016
National Building Code of India, 2016. The umbrella code covering fire and life-safety, structural design, building services and accessibility. TechnoGuru's ELV…
Compliance
IS code
Indian Standards — the technical specifications published by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). For systems-integration work the most-cited are IS 2189 (fire…
ELV
PAVA
Public Address with Voice Alarm — an integrated PA system with EN 54-16 / IS 14735-compliant voice-evacuation capability. Mandatory under NBC 2016 for many comm…
Semantic similarity
Similar entities in the graph
Similarity 82
Fire Cause-and-Effect Matrix
A written specification that documents what each life-safety event triggers across the connected systems — lift recall, magnetic door release, PA announcement, AHU damper close, CCTV pre-record, access evacuation mode.
Similarity 62
IS 2189 — Fire Detection
Indian Standard for the selection, installation and maintenance of automatic fire-detection and alarm systems. Cited line-by-line in every TechnoGuru fire-alarm engineering pack.
Similarity 58
IS 14735 — Voice Evacuation PA
Indian Standard for public-address voice-evacuation systems. Mandatory under NBC 2016 for many commercial, hospitality, healthcare and educational occupancies above defined thresholds.
Similarity 28
Fire-Alarm ↔ PA Interoperability
Addressable fire-alarm panel ↔ EN 54-16 / IS 14735 PA voice-evac integration. The fire panel triggers zone-specific evacuation announcements with STI ≥ 0.5 intelligibility across the affected zones.
· Engineering entity · standard