The Ministerial Regulations

Types of Inspection:

What en who is affected by the law?

• High-rise buildings of equal or more than 23 meters in height.
• Special large-scale buildings containing equal or more than 10,000 sq m of total gross area.
• Public buildings containing equal or more than 1,000 sq m of total floor area where people can utilize or where can contain equal or more than 500 people in total.
• Buildings where any kind of entertainment is performed.
• Hotels contain equal or more than 80 rooms in total.
• Buildings containing equal or more than 200 sq m of gross area where services are provided to public as defined in the place of service providing-related statutory.
• Condominiums or residential buildings containing equal or more than 2,000 sq m of total gross area.
  Exception is allowed for condominiums or residential buildings containing equal or less than 5,000 sq m of total gross area, to submit the report within Oct 24, 2012.
  Exception is allowed for condominiums or residential buildings containing less than 5,000 sq m of total gross area, to submit the report within Oct 24, 2010.
• Factories which have more than one floor and contain equal or more than 5,000 sq m of total gross area.
• Signboards or constructions for erection of signboard that have equal or more than 15 meters in height, measured from the ground or contain equal or more than 50 sq m of area. Or signboards erected on the roof or roof deck of a building or any other part of a building that contain equal or more than 25 sq m of area.

All our buildings comply with the Thai law

Duty of the Building Owners:

1. To appoint a building inspector registered with the Building Control
   Commission.
2. To provide plans and drawings relating to the structural and architectural
   design and construction, and installation of the building services and facilities.
3. To prepare relevant documents, and collaborate in planning and conducting the building inspection with the Building Inspector
4. To carry out improvement and rectification work as recommended in the report of the Building Inspector.
5. In the event that the Building inspector advises that a specialist is needed to be appointed for each discipline in order to perform technical inspection and to report on a specific discipline, the building owner will have to appoint these specialists.
6. To submit to the local official the report that has been prepared and certified by the Building Inspector.
7. To conduct building inspection and maintenance as planned by the Building Inspector.

Building Inspectors

What will be checked?

1. Building stability:
   
   
   • Modifications / alterations to the building
   • Change in floor loading
   • Change in building use
   • Change in construction or finishing materials
   • Building defects
   • Structural destruction
   • Foundation deflection


2. Building service systems and equipment:
   
   
   • Services and facilities:
     
     • Lifts
     • Escalators
     • Electrical
     • Air conditioning
   
   
   • Health and environmental systems:
     
     • Cold water supply
     • Sewage and waste water treatment
     • Rain water drainage
     • Garbage disposal
     • Ventilation
     • Air and noise pollutants
   
   
   • Fire fighting and protection systems:
     
     • Fire escape and fire stair
     • Fire exit and signage
     • Exhausting fan and smoke damper
     • Emergency power back-up
     • Fireman lift
     • Fire alarm
     • Fire fighting equipment
     • Fire pump and fire hose reel
     • Sprinkler
     • Lightening protection
   
   
   • Capacity of
     
     • Fire escape and fire stair
     • Fire exit and signage
     • Fire alarm
   
   
   • Safety management:
     
     • Fire protection and fighting Plan
     • Fire drill plan
     • Safety management plan
     • Management plan of Building Inspector