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    Plinth area refers to the total covered area of a building measured at each floor level, including the basement. It includes both internal and external walls and is generally 10-20% more than the carpet area. Plinth area measurements include all floors, walls, internal shafts, mezzanine floors, porches, and common walls between buildings. Features like lofts, unenclosed balconies, sunshades, additional floors, and cantilevered areas are excluded from plinth area calculations. Floor area refers to the total area within walls, including all rooms, passages, and staircases, but excluding wall thicknesses and openings. Carpet area is the useful or livable area, calculated by subtracting

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    Plinth area refers to the total covered area of a building measured at each floor level, including the basement. It includes both internal and external walls and is generally 10-20% more than the carpet area. Plinth area measurements include all floors, walls, internal shafts, mezzanine floors, porches, and common walls between buildings. Features like lofts, unenclosed balconies, sunshades, additional floors, and cantilevered areas are excluded from plinth area calculations. Floor area refers to the total area within walls, including all rooms, passages, and staircases, but excluding wall thicknesses and openings. Carpet area is the useful or livable area, calculated by subtracting

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    Plinth area refers to the total covered area of a building measured at each floor level, including the basement. It includes both internal and external walls and is generally 10-20% more than the carpet area. Plinth area measurements include all floors, walls, internal shafts, mezzanine floors, porches, and common walls between buildings. Features like lofts, unenclosed balconies, sunshades, additional floors, and cantilevered areas are excluded from plinth area calculations. Floor area refers to the total area within walls, including all rooms, passages, and staircases, but excluding wall thicknesses and openings. Carpet area is the useful or livable area, calculated by subtracting

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    Plinth area refers to the total covered area of a building measured at each floor level, including the basement. It includes both internal and external walls and is generally 10-20% more than the carpet area. Plinth area measurements include all floors, walls, internal shafts, mezzanine floors, porches, and common walls between buildings. Features like lofts, unenclosed balconies, sunshades, additional floors, and cantilevered areas are excluded from plinth area calculations. Floor area refers to the total area within walls, including all rooms, passages, and staircases, but excluding wall thicknesses and openings. Carpet area is the useful or livable area, calculated by subtracting

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    PLINTH AREA

    Plinth area is the covered built-up area measured at the floor level of any storey or at the floor
    level of
    the basement. Plinth area is also called as built-up area and is the entire area occupied by the
    building
    including internal and external walls. Plinth area is generally 10-20% more than carpet area.
    During the measurement, following categories are measured separately:
    Basement
    Floor without cladding (stilled floor)
    Floors including top floor which may be partly covered
    Garage
    Mezzanine floor
    The following are included in the plinth area
    All floors, area of walls at the floor level excluding plinth off sets, if any
    Internal shaft for sanitary installations, provided these do not exceed 2 squre meters area
    in air
    conditioning ducts
    The area of barsati and the area of mumty at terrace level
    Area of porch other than cantilever
    Area of the wall at the floor level, excluding plinth offsets. If there are any common
    walls between
    two buildings, half of the area of such walls shall be considered in the plinth area.
    Areas of the internal shaft for sanitary installations and garbage chute, electrical, telecom
    and
    firefighting services provided
    Vertical duct for air conditioning and lift well including landing.
    Staircase room or head room other than terrace level
    Machine room
    Porch
    Recess by cantilevering beyond external walls, bay window is the best example
    The following not included in the plinth area
    Area of loft
    Unenclosed balconies
    Sunshades, vertical sun breaker, or box louvers projecting out.
    Additional floor for seating in assembly buildings, theatres, auditoriums
    Cantilevered porch
    Balcony
    Area of loft
    Internal sanitary shaft and garbage chute
    FACILITY PLANNING Suresh Mathews
    Open platform
    Terrace at first floor
    Spiral staircase including landing
    Towers, turrets, domes projecting above the terrace level at terrace.
    FLOOR AREA
    Floor area of a building is the total area of the floor in between walls and consist of the floor
    and all
    rooms, veradndah, passage, corridors, stair cases, entrance hall, kitchen , store, bath and WC.
    Sills of
    door and openings are not included in the floor area.
    Area occupied by walls, pillars, other immediate supports is not included in the floor area.
    Floor area = Plinth area – Area occupied by walls
    Door and other opening in the wall
    Intermediate pillars and support
    Plasters along walls excluding 300 sq. cm. in area
    Flues, which are within the wall. But the following shall not be excluded from the wall
    Floor area of basement, mezzanines, barsati and porches should also be measured
    separately.
    CARPET AREA
    The carpet area of a building is the useful area or livable or letable area. This is the total floor
    area minus
    circulation area, verandah, corridors, passages, stair cases, lift, entrance hall, etc. minus other
    nonuseable
    areas such as sanity accommodation (bath+WC) , air conditioning room, etc. For office
    building,
    carpet area is the liveable area and should exclude the kitchen, pantry, store and similar other
    types of
    rooms which are not used for living purpose.
    The carpet area of a building for any storey shall be Floor area excluding the flowing

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