BANGLADESH NATIONAL

BUILDING CODE
2017

Volume 1 of 3
(Part 1 to Part 5)

Housing and Building Research Institute

 ORGANIZATION AND FORMAT OF THE CODE
Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) 2017 consists of 10 (ten) Parts published in 3 (three) Volumes of
books as follows:

Volume 1
PART 1 SCOPE AND DEFINITION
PART 2 ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
PART 3 GENERAL BUILDING REQUIREMENTS, CONTROL AND REGULATION
PART 4 FIRE PROTECTION
PART 5 BUILDING MATERIALS

Volume 2
PART 6 STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Volume 3
PART 7 CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES AND SAFETY
PART 8 BUILDING SERVICES
PART 9 ADDITION, ALTERATION TO AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING BUILDINGS
PART 10 SIGNS AND OUT-DOOR DISPLAY

Part 1 and portion of Part 2 (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2) are formatted as to the style of legal documents and
Chapter 3 of Part 2 followed the usual format of the Code containing Part, Chapter and page numbers. All
pages of Part 1 and Part 2 are continuously numbered.

For rest of the Code (Part 3 to Part 10), Chapters and pages are numbered separately for each Part. Page
numbers consist of two numbers separated by a hyphen. First number denotes Part number and second
number represents page number of that Part. Sections are continuously numbered within a Chapter having
the first digit as Chapter number. Table and Figure numbers consist of three digits separated by periods. The
first digit represents Part number, second digit Chapter number and the last digit Table/Figure number.
Headers and Footers are so arranged that opening the Code, the reader can understand which Part and
Chapter the page belongs. A Summary Table of Contents listing all the Chapters of the Code is provided at
the beginning of the Code. A detail Table of Contents is provided separately for each Part. An index referring
definitions of different terminologies used in the Code is provided at the end of each volume.
PART 1
SCOPE AND
DEFINITION
 PART 1

Page

Chapter 1 TITLE, PURPOSE, SCOPE ETC 1-1

Chapter 2 DEFINITIONS 1-3

Chapter 3 ABBREVIATIONS 1-7