Tall Building Council for Delhi

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has come up with a proposal to set up the Delhi Tall Building Council (DTBC) on the lines of Mumbai Tall Buildings Committee, as Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon, are in the high-risk seismic zone 4, with buildings getting ready to reach at 80 floors. Surprisingly, the city does not have a tall buildings code to ensure safety

Surprisingly, the city does not have a tall buildings code to ensure safety of tall structures. The role of the proposed Tall Building Council for Delhi will be to guide the city’s developers as they transit from low-rise to high rise buildings. The members of this council could include senior structural engineers with wind and earthquake design experience, senior architects, façade designers, senior geophysicists and green building experts.