Completion Certificate Norms

What the guidance covers

Completion Certificate Norms sets standards for plinth-level inspection, last-storey inspection and completion certification. Plinth inspection checks setbacks and the building footprint against the approved plan. Last-storey inspection checks height and the footprint up to the final storey.

The guidance affects owners, developers and applicants seeking completion certificates. It identifies work that must be finished and deviations that may be accepted.

Work required for completion

Completion Certificate Norms requires the following principal work in commercial and residential projects:

• Terrace floor with weathering course and parapet wall.
• Lift machine room, overhead tank and staircase headroom.
• Electrical, sanitary and water supply installations, although specified fixtures need not be installed.
• Water storage sump, exterior plastering and joinery frames.
• Removal of dowel rods left for vertical or horizontal expansion.

Commercial interiors, fixtures, flooring and partitions need not be completed. For residential buildings, internal plastering and flooring need not be completed. Residential projects must have kitchen provision, including water supply and drainage where a modular kitchen is proposed, and internal partition walls.

Non-high-rise building tolerances

For buildings with ground floor plus two floors, or stilt plus three floors, up to 12 metres, with no more than 16 dwellings or up to 300 square metres of commercial space:

• Length and width may each increase by no more than 0.30 metres.
• Height may increase by up to 3 percent without exceeding 12 metres or creating another floor. Institutional buildings may not exceed 18.30 metres.
• FSI tolerance is a maximum of 15 square metres above permissible FSI.
• Flat interconnection is allowed if parking requirements are met.
• Rainwater harvesting must be provided.

For non-high-rise buildings up to 18.30 metres that exceed 16 dwellings or 300 square metres of commercial space, the dimensional increase remains 0.30 metres in each direction. Height may increase by up to 3 percent without exceeding 18.30 metres or adding a floor. FSI tolerance is 0.03 of FSI or 50 square metres, whichever is higher.

Other controls

Completion Certificate Norms does not permit permanent compound walls on land left for street alignment or road widening. OSR land must not contain structures. Larger non-high-rise projects must reserve one third of the terrace for solar photovoltaic panels.

For high-rise buildings, the supplied norms allow up to 0.30 metres increase in length and width. A 0.30 metre setback reduction is permitted for buildings within 30 metres in height only if at least 6.70 metres remains. Greater height requires a corresponding setback increase.