<p class="title">The state government has issued a notification allowing registered professionals such as architects and structural engineers to plan, design and supervise building construction under ease-of-doing-business reforms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The notification has been issued by the Urban Development Department under the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Model Building Bye Laws 2017. The notification significantly reduces interference of ULBs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accordingly, an architect registered with the Council of Architecture can prepare and sign all plans pertaining to building permits except that of multi-storeyed or special buildings; prepare building plans, drawings and issue certificate of supervision connected with development permits of up to 1 hectare in metro cities and 2 hectares in non-metro cities.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An engineer who is a member of the Institution of Engineers can prepare structural drawings, details and calculations of buildings on plot up to 500 sqm and up to 5 storeys of 16m in height and issue certificate of supervision. A town planner can prepare layout plans for all areas more than one hectare.</p>
<p class="title">The state government has issued a notification allowing registered professionals such as architects and structural engineers to plan, design and supervise building construction under ease-of-doing-business reforms.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The notification has been issued by the Urban Development Department under the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Model Building Bye Laws 2017. The notification significantly reduces interference of ULBs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accordingly, an architect registered with the Council of Architecture can prepare and sign all plans pertaining to building permits except that of multi-storeyed or special buildings; prepare building plans, drawings and issue certificate of supervision connected with development permits of up to 1 hectare in metro cities and 2 hectares in non-metro cities.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An engineer who is a member of the Institution of Engineers can prepare structural drawings, details and calculations of buildings on plot up to 500 sqm and up to 5 storeys of 16m in height and issue certificate of supervision. A town planner can prepare layout plans for all areas more than one hectare.</p>
