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Building Control Regulations
Part I
renewable upon application for a further period not exceeding one
year;
1.1.2.103. 'Tile field'
Means a system of short butted pipes laid underground and
surrounded with broken stone; or gravel, or other similar material,
into which effluent from the septic tank is discharged;
1.1.2.104. 'Travel distance'
Means:
1.1.2.105. 'Tread'
a) the distance in any building where emergency routes are
required, from the farthest point in any room in such building to
an access door; or
b) where no emergency routes are required, the distance from the
farthest point in any room in a building to an escape door;
1.1.2.106. 'Type plans'
Means the upper surface of a step;
Means a drawing of a simple single storey residential building of not
more than 100m 2 prepared by an architect and registered by the
Rwanda Society of Architects;
1.1.2.107. 'Ventilated improved pit latrine' (VIP)
1.1.2.108. 'Wall'
Means a pit latrine fitted with a vent pipe, which is screened to
prevent both ingress and egress of insects;
Means a vertical load-bearing or non-load-bearing member of a
structure whose length exceeds four times its thickness;
1.1.2.109. 'Water closet'
1.1.2.110. 'Width'
1.1.2.111. 'Wind load'
Means latrine accommodation used with waterborne system of
excreta disposal;
Means the distance between opposite plot boundaries, measured at
right angles to the direction of the street;
Means the force excreted by the action of wind, whether pressure or
suction;
Ministry Of Infrastructure of Rwanda
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