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Decree No. 268 / 2009 Coll., on Technical Requirements for Buildings — Decree on technical requirements for construction.

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Decree No. 268 / 2009 Coll. became effective 26.08.2009.

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Decree No. 268 / 2009 Coll. - Decree on technical requirements for con...

268

DECLARATION

of 12 August 2009

on technical requirements for construction

According to § 194 (a) of Act No. 183 / 2006 Coll., on Territorial Planning and Construction Regulations (Construction Act):

ČÁST PRVNÍ

INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

§ 1

Subject matter

(1) This Decree lays down technical requirements for construction works falling within the competence of general construction offices.

(2) This Decree was notified in accordance with Directive 98 / 34 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and rules and of rules on information society services, as amended by Directive 98 / 48 / EC.

§ 2

(1) The provisions of this decree shall also apply to installations, changes in finished buildings, maintenance works, changes in the use of structures, temporary construction sites, and buildings which are cultural monuments (1), or are in conservation reserves or conservation zones, unless serious technical or construction technical reasons preclude this.

(2) The requirements contained in Parts Two to Five of this Decree apply to all types of construction and equipment falling within the competence of general construction offices, unless otherwise stated in Part Six thereof.

§ 3

Basic concepts

For the purposes of this decree:

(a) the building of an above ground building, including its underground part of a space-focused and externally largely enclosed by perimeter walls and roof structures;

(b) a building with a collection area of a building in which there is a space for the assembly of persons in which the number and density of persons exceeds the limit standards and is intended for cultural, sporting and similar purposes;

(c) construction for trade construction with sales area

1. up to 2000 m2, which must meet the requirements of the second to fifth parts of the Decree,

2. over 2000 m2, which must in addition satisfy the specific requirements laid down in the sixth part of the Decree,

(d) accommodation unit

1. a single room or a set of rooms which meet and are intended for temporary accommodation by design and equipment,

2. accommodation unit in social services 2), intended for permanent housing,

(e) construction for the production and storage of buildings intended for industrial, craft or other production, or, where appropriate, services having the character of production, and for the storage of products, materials and materials other than those referred to in (f);

(f) construction for agriculture

1. construction for livestock (3), i.e. construction or assembly of structures for livestock for breeding, fattening, work and other economic purposes;

2. accompanying construction for farm animals, i.e. construction for drying and storage of hay and straw, construction for storage of manure, manure, slurry, urinals and manure, construction for storage of liquid waste and construction for preservation and storage of silage and silage;

3. Construction for post-harvest treatment and storage of plant products,

4. construction for the storage of mineral fertilisers;

5. Construction for storage of plant protection products and products,

6. a manual warehouse, construction, part of construction or separate room intended for storage of plant protection products and products with a maximum permissible weight of up to 1 000 kg of plant protection products and products;

(g) housing a suite of rooms or one living room, where applicable, which, by its technical design and equipment, meets the requirements for permanent housing and is intended for this purpose of use;

(h) rooms of a space-closed part of the construction work, defined by the floor, ceiling or roof construction and fixed walls;

(i) the residential area of the apartment which complies with the requirements of this decree is intended for permanent housing and has the smallest floor area of 8 m2. The kitchen, which has an area of at least 12 m2 and has direct daylight lighting, direct ventilation and heating, with the possibility of heat control, is a residential room. If one living room forms an apartment, the floor shall be at least 16 m2; for rooms with oblique ceilings, a surface area of less than 1,2 m shall not be counted in the residential area;

(j) a room or space which, by its location, size and construction arrangement, satisfies the requirements for persons to stay in it;

(k) the standard value of a specific technical requirement, in particular the limit value, the design method, the nationally defined parameters, the technical characteristics of the construction structures and technical installations contained in the relevant Czech technical standard (4), the compliance of which shall be considered to comply with the requirements of the specific provision of this Decree;

(l) an emergency tank - a tank, a container or a tank, intended to contain defective substances which have been escaped or released from the tanks, containers, packaging, or, where appropriate, a technological device with at least the capacity of the largest tank placed or seduced in it.

ČÁST DRUHÁ

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION

§ 4

Gill

(1) The pumps shall be watertight, free of any effluent and equipped with ventilation. In case of visible leakage, a leak test shall be carried out. The discharge of the pipe shall be carried out according to the volume of the storage space of the pipe. The contents of the pit must be handled in accordance with another legislation5).

(2) The pipe must be designed in such a way as to allow a forward-looking connection of the building to the public sewerage (6) finished by a sewage treatment plant.

§ 5

Disperse surfaces and still transport equipment

(1) The structures must have a dispersion area corresponding to the type of construction before entering. The solution of the dispersion areas shall allow smooth and safe access, as well as the departure and dispersion of persons to the surrounding area.

(2) Stoppers and parking spaces are dealt with as part of the construction or as an operationally inseparable part of the construction or on the site of the construction, in accordance with the standard values, unless the restrictions resulting from the protective measures provided for prevent this).

§ 6

Connection of buildings to technical equipment networks

(1) The construction works must be connected to a water source or water pipeline for public use and to the distribution of fire-fighting water and equipment for the disposal of waste water, energy networks and electronic communications networks, as appropriate.

(2) Each connection to a public water pipeline and the networks of the necessary energy must be separately closed. The closure points and the external collection points for the collection of water for extinguishing shall be accessible and permanently marked.

(3) Construction according to type and need must be connected to sewerage for public use where technically possible and economically acceptable. Otherwise, disposal or waste water storage facilities should be implemented.

(4) The structures from which surface water flows, resulting from the impact of atmospheric precipitation (hereinafter referred to as "precipitation water"), must be capable of being removed if the precipitation water is not retained for further use. Pollution of these waters by harmful substances or excessive quantities shall be dealt with by appropriate technical measures. The removal of withholding water is ensured preferably by seizing. In the absence of sedation, they shall be taken into surface water; if the precipitation water cannot be removed separately, it shall be carried out by a single sewer.

(5) Any transfer of connections or relevant sampling technical equipment to the construction or part thereof located below the ground level shall be so designed as to make it impossible in the event of a gas pipeline accident outside the gas-to-construction facility.

(6) The spatial layout of technical equipment networks such as coupling or crossing are defined by standard values.

§ 7

Fencing of land

(1) The fencing of the land must not, by its size, shape and material used, affect the character of the building on the fenced plot and its surrounding area and must not restrict the visual field of the exit connecting the building to the infrastructure.

(2) The fencing of the land shall not jeopardise the safety of persons, road users and animals.

(3) In flood areas, the type of fencing of the land and the material used shall not degrade the course of the flood, the fencing of the land shall be particularly easy to dismantle, without a solid suspicion, and shall allow for the easy passage of flood flows.

ČÁST TŘETÍ

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SAFETY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONSTRUCTION

§ 8

Essential requirements

(1) The construction must be designed and carried out in such a way that, while respecting the economy, it is suitable for the intended use and, at the same time, it meets the essential requirements which are:

(a) mechanical resistance and stability;

(b) fire safety 8),

(c) the protection of human and animal health, healthy living conditions and the environment (9);

(d) noise protection 10),

(e) safety during use;

(f) energy saving and heat protection11).

(2) The construction shall comply with the requirements referred to in paragraph 1 in the normal maintenance and performance of the normally foreseeable effects over the planned lifetime of the construction.

(3) Products, materials and structures designed and used for construction must ensure that the construction complies with the requirements of paragraph 1.

§ 9

Mechanical resistance and stability

(1) The construction shall be designed and carried out in accordance with standard values so that the effects of the load and the adverse effects of the environment to which it is exposed during construction and use during proper normal maintenance operations cannot cause:

(a) sudden or gradual collapse, or any other destructive damage to any part of it or to adjacent buildings;

(b) the unacceptable reformation or agitation of a structure which may impair the stability of the structure, the mechanical resistance and the functional capacity of the structure or part thereof, or which results in a reduction in the durability of the structure;

(c) damage or hazard to the operation of the connected technical equipment due to deformation of the structure;

(d) threats to the operation of infrastructure and rail within the scope of construction and to the safety and continuity of traffic on the road adjacent to the construction site;

(e) threats to the operability of technical equipment networks within the scope of the construction;

(f) breach of construction to an extent disproportionate to the original cause, in particular by explosion, impact, overload or the failure of a human factor which could be prevented without undue difficulty or cost, or at least limited;

(g) damage to structures due to adverse effects of groundwater caused by an increase or decrease in the level of adjacent water flow or by the dynamic effects of flood flows or, where appropriate, by hydrostatic effluents;

(h) the risk of flow of watercourses, or of valley profiles, bridges and culverts.

(2) For buildings used to ensure the supply of energy customers and other selected buildings, the characteristics of which cannot be influenced by future users (12), the construction must be designed and carried out in such a way as to avoid an unforeseen permanent or temporary threat to the operation of the construction as a whole.

(3) Construction structures and construction elements must be designed and carried out in accordance with standard values so as to meet the required purpose for the intended lifetime of the construction and to withstand all effects of load and environmental adverse effects, including foreseeable exceptional loads that may normally occur in the implementation and use of the construction.

(4) The structures located within the area within the reach of the effects of deep-sea mining or seismic effects are also designed with regard to the expected deformation of the ground ground due to the manifestations of mining or seismic activity on the surface.

(5) In the flood area

(a) the construction of structures below the level for which the flood area has been established must be designed for extraordinary loads, in particular during the flood and its demise;

(b) in the event of a flood, the construction technical solution of the buildings must enable the gravity drain of the water from the lowest deck or a device for simple draining of water from buildings must be designed;

(c) the lowest living floor is designed so that the floor structure is above the level applicable to the determination of the flood area;

(d) if the construction, any part of it or part thereof is protected against the entry of water during a flood, it must also be resistant to flushing and rollover. For underground tanks for substances likely to endanger the quality or health of water, a degree of safety 2 or higher is required or an assessment of the limit deformation of the connecting lines.

§ 10

General requirements for health, healthy living conditions and the environment

(1) The construction must be designed and carried out in such a way that it does not endanger the life and health of persons or animals (3), the safety, the healthy living conditions of its users or the users of surrounding buildings, and that it does not endanger the environment beyond the limits contained in other legislation9), in particular as a result of:

(a) the release of substances dangerous to the health and lives of persons and animals and to plants;

(b) the presence of hazardous particles in the air;

(c) release of emissions of hazardous radiation, in particular ionising radiation;

(d) adverse effects of electromagnetic radiation13),

(e) air, surface or groundwater and soil pollution;

(f) insufficient disposal of waste water and smoke;

(g) inappropriate waste management 14),

(h) the presence of moisture in construction structures or on the surface of construction structures within the structures;

(i) insufficient thermal insulation and sound insulation characteristics according to the nature of the rooms used;

(j) inappropriate lighting technical characteristics.

(2) The construction must withstand harmful environmental effects, in particular the effects of natural moisture and groundwater, atmospheric and chemical effects, radiation and shocks.

(3) The floor level of the living room above the treated terrain and above the ground water is determined by standard values.

(4) The functional use of rooms which are at risk of entering water during flooding must be adapted to that danger and surface treatment must allow effective cleaning of mud and other impurities and, where appropriate, of defective substances transported by water during the flood.

(5) The clearance of the rooms must be at least:

(a) 2600 mm in accommodation and accommodation rooms;

(b) 2300 mm in accommodation and living rooms in the attic; rooms with bevelled ceilings shall have this clearance above at least half the floor area of the room,

unless the provisions of Part Six of this Order provide otherwise,

(c) in industrial constructions according to another Regulation (15).

(6) Each apartment must have at least one toilet bowl and one bathroom. For each separate operating unit with rooms, the number of toilet bowls shall be determined according to the purpose of the unit and the number of its users in accordance with the relevant standard values. The toilet must not be accessible directly from the living room or from the living room, if it is a single toilet in the apartment.

§ 11

Daily and artificial lighting, ventilation and heating

(1) In the case of newly designed buildings, the design of lighting in accordance with standard values must address daily, artificial and possibly combined lighting, and assess them together with heating, cooling, ventilation, noise protection, notoriety, including the influence of the surrounding buildings and, conversely, the impact of the proposed construction on the existing installation.

(2) The living rooms must have daily lighting in accordance with standard values.

(3) The living rooms shall be provided with adequate ventilation by outdoor air and heating in accordance with standard values, with the possibility of regulating indoor temperature.

(4) In the accommodation rooms, daily, artificial and, where appropriate, combined lighting shall be designed depending on their functional use and the length of stay of the persons in accordance with standard values.

(5) Staying rooms shall be provided with sufficient natural or forced ventilation and shall be sufficiently heated to control internal temperature. For ventilation of accommodation rooms, the minimum amount of outdoor air exchanged shall be 25 m3 / h per person at the time of residence or the minimum ventilation intensity 0,5 1 / h. Carbon dioxide, the concentration of which in the internal air must not exceed 1 500 ppm, is used as an indicator of the quality of the internal environment.

(6) In rooms where fuel appliances are installed, an outdoor air supply shall always be provided equal to at least the combustion air flow for nominal output and the type of appliance.

(7) Toilets, personal hygiene spaces and cooking spaces must have artificial lighting in accordance with standard values, must be effectively ventilated in accordance with standard values and must be sufficiently heated to control internal temperature.

(8) The storage and storage rooms for foodstuffs must be effectively ventilated.

(9) The communication spaces shall have artificial lighting in accordance with standard values and shall be ventilated.

§ 12

(1) Houses and other rooms of residential buildings and rooms of accommodation facilities must not be ventilated into common spaces and communication spaces.

(2) Ventilation and daylight lighting of the accessories of the apartment is also permitted from skylights and ventilation shafts, if they have a floor plan of at least 5 m2 and a length of at least 1500 mm. Their bottom shall be accessible, easily cleaned and shall have a drain with a odour cap.

(3) Only ventilation of rooms of the same nature at the entire height of the shaft may be introduced into the light or ventilation shaft, the exhaust from fuel appliances must not be diverted through the shaft. Only in justified cases, while maintaining the function of the skyline or ventilation shaft, a chimney corresponding to the standard values may be placed in it.

(4) The overshading of existing living rooms by new constructions or new parts thereof shall be assessed according to the factor of daily illumination of the window glazing plane. The shielding of existing internal spaces shall be considered satisfactory if standard values are observed. The eclipse of the newly proposed accommodation rooms shall be assessed according to the daily lighting factor on a comparative plane within those rooms in accordance with standard values. In addition to the above, the shade of existing and new flats shall be assessed according to the sun in accordance with standard values.

(5) In addition to the existing continuous installation by building in produles, or in the form of superstructures and harbours, the influence on the shielding of the surrounding buildings shall be assessed by comparing the situation with that of the complete continuous installation, in particular with the height level of the installation and the ground plan range.

§ 13

Shining

(1) All apartments and living rooms that require this by their nature and manner of use must be famous. In doing so, visual well-being and protection against glare must be ensured, in particular in accommodation rooms designed for visually demanding activities.

(2) The apartment is famous if the sum of the floor areas of its famous living rooms is equal to at least one third of the sum of the floor areas of all its living rooms. The assessment of notoriety is based on standard values.

(3) For detached family houses, twin houses and terraced houses, the sum of the floor areas of the famous living rooms is to be at least one half of the total floor areas of all living rooms of the apartment.

§ 14

Noise and vibration protection

(1) The construction must ensure that the noise and vibrations affecting persons and animals are at a level which does not endanger health, ensures the peace of night and is suitable for the environment with the residence of persons or animals, including on neighbouring land and buildings.

(2) When ensuring the protection of construction against external noise, especially from transport, urban measures must be applied as a priority over measures protecting individual buildings in order to meet the conditions for the protection of noise in the protected outdoor area, the protected outdoor area of buildings and the protected internal space of construction 9), 10).

(3) The required airtight sound of the perimeter covers of buildings, walls, partitions and ceilings between rooms is given by standard values. The required step opaque sound of ceiling structures with floors is given by standard values.

(4) All built-in technical equipment causing noise and vibration shall be located and installed in buildings with residential and residential rooms in such a way as to limit the transmission of noise and vibration to the construction structure and its propagation, in particular to the protected internal space of the building.

(5) The installation line must be guided and fixed in such a way that it does not transfer to the protected inner spaces of the construction noise caused by its use or the foreign noise captured.

§ 15

Security in the implementation and use of structures

(1) Main home communications in buildings with residential or residential rooms must permit the transport of objects of dimensions 1950 × 1950 × 800 mm; for buildings in which health and social care are provided, they must allow the transport of objects of dimensions 1950 × 1950 × 900 mm. This requirement does not apply to family houses and buildings for family recreation.

(2) The technical equipment of the buildings in flood areas must be designed and carried out with increased resistance to the potential effects of the water in the floods. The technical design of transformers, main switchboards for electricity, electricity distribution and distribution of electronic communications networks, main gas and water closures, drainage of waste water from buildings, boiler facilities 16) for heating buildings and machinery spaces of buildings for housing and civil equipment shall comply with the requirements for safe operation and functionality in the event of possible flooding.

(3) The implementation and use of structures shall not jeopardise road and rail safety.

§ 16

Energy saving and thermal protection

(1) Buildings must be designed and constructed in such a way that the energy consumption of their heating, ventilation, artificial lighting or air conditioning is as low as possible. The energy performance must be influenced by the shape of the building, its layout, orientation and size of filling holes, the materials used and the products and systems of the technical equipment of the buildings. The construction design must respect the climatic conditions of the site.

(2) Buildings with the required state of the internal environment must be designed and implemented in such a way as to guarantee long-term thermal protection requirements that meet the requirements of long-term use.

(a) the thermal comfort of users;

(b) the required thermal technical characteristics of the structures and buildings;

(c) thermal humidity conditions of technologies according to the different purposes of buildings;

(d) low energy performance of buildings.

(3) The requirements for the thermal technical characteristics of structures and buildings are determined by standard values.

§ 17

Removal of buildings

(1) The construction works must be removed in such a way that the safety, life and health of persons or animals are not jeopardised during work, fire is created and an uncontrollable breach of the stability of the construction or part thereof. The stability of other structures and the operability of networks of technical equipment within the scope of the construction shall not be compromised when dismantling the buildings.

(2) The surrounding area of the dismantled buildings must not be unduly harassed by this activity and its consequences, in particular by noise and dust.

(3) Construction removal must be carried out according to a pre-determined technological procedure and documentation of cutting work (17).

(4) Construction and demolition waste from the dismantled buildings must be removed without delay and continuously in such a way as to avoid disrupting the safety and continuity of road traffic and, in the event of a flood, to avoid flooding and disinfecting the environment. Construction waste must be managed in accordance with other legislation5).

ČÁST ČTVRTÁ

REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION

§ 18

Building

(1) Construction must be based in a manner consistent with the base ratios established by the geological survey and meet the requirements of the standard values and the stability of other structures must not be jeopardised.

(2) The creation of structures shall take into account any changes to the base conditions on adjacent land for construction and any changes to the groundwater regime.

(3) The bases shall be designed and carried out in such a way as to protect them from aggressive waters and substances which damage them as necessary.

(4) In the case of buildings whose foundations are exposed to temperature changes, in particular kilns, freezers or flickering, account must be taken of the effects of these changes on the characteristics of the base soil, in particular those of cohesive soil.

(5) For construction works with production machinery and equipment that generate shocks and vibrations to the ground, these effects should be considered.

(6) Underground construction structures, separating the inner spaces from the surrounding soil or from the ground, shall be isolated against the ground moisture or, where appropriate, against groundwater.

(7) Rooms and spaces intended for the cultivation and storage of plant products need not be isolated from floors against earth moisture or can be carried out without floors.

§ 19

Walls and partitions

(1) The outer walls and inner walls separating spaces with different heating modes and wall structures adjacent to the terrain, together with their surfaces, must meet the requirements for thermal technical characteristics when heat, water vapour and air are transferred through structures given by standard values

(a) the lowest internal surface temperature of the construction, in particular at the points of the thermal bridges in the construction and the thermal connections between the structures;

(b) heat transfer factors, including the heat bridges in the construction;

(c) linear and point heat transfer factors for thermal connections between structures;

(d) condensation of water vapour and moisture balance during the year;

(e) the airspeed of the structure and the coupling between the structures;

(f) the thermal stability of the structure during winter and summer periods in relation to the room or building;

(g) heat transfer through the building's circumferential envelope in connection with other building structures.

(2) The wall or cross-section is suitable for sound insulation if it complies with the requirements of the building acoustic for airtight noise between the rooms in the buildings given by standard values according to the nature of the rooms used or the design of the rooms used.

§ 20

Cells

(1) The external and internal ceiling structures, together with the floors and surfaces, shall meet the requirements for thermal technical characteristics when heat, water vapour and air are transferred through structures at steady and constant temperature levels based on standard values.

(2) The ceilings, together with the floors and surfaces, are satisfactory in terms of sound insulation if their airtight sound and step-tight noise meet the minimum requirements given by standard values.

§ 21

Floor, wall and ceiling surfaces

(1) The floor structures shall meet the requirements for thermal technical characteristics at steady state and constant temperature including the drop in temperature of the floor, as well as the requirements for acoustics for step and air airtight performance given by standard values. The whole ceiling structure is assessed comprehensively.

(2) The floors of all residential and residential rooms must have an anti-slip treatment corresponding to standard values.

(3) In parts of the buildings used by the public, including passages and covered passages, the slip-down treatment of the floor surface shall comply with standard values.

(4) The design and implementation of the ground layer is also assessed in terms of non-slip due to changes in the possible effects of moisture. The values declared by the manufacturer in accordance with the relevant technical product specification shall be used to assess the suitability of the floor area.

Citation	Decree No. 268 / 2009 Coll., on Technical Requirements for Buildings
Regulation Type	Order
Author	-
Collection	Code of Laws

Date of Promulgation	26.08.2009
Effective from	26.08.2009
Effective until	-
Status	Valid

Decree No. 268 / 2009 Coll.

Decree on technical requirements for construction

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