Industrial and Other Buildings

This group of buildings includes structures like workshops, garages, bus stops/depots, warehouses, public toilets, gas stations and sports complexes. The workshop recommended that in order to maintain the hierarchy of building use and architectural elements, general industrial buildings need not replicate every architectural detail. However structures within an industrial complex that are used as offices and residences will have to follow the guidelines laid out for institutional and residential buildings. A summary is as follows : * Kachhens are not permissible. * For walls without ekra or ekra effect all windows will have to be Payab windows i.e. with a Zangshing and row of Boghs either in wood or in raised plaster. * All windows will have to incorporate the Horzing and Jugshing. The Tshegay is not mandatory. Toilet windows shall be permitted without Horzing. * For multistoried buildings, it is recommended that the bands of bogh currently being used be discontinued and the Rabsel be correctly incorporated on the final floor. The walls on the final floor will have to have an ekra effect. * Jamthog and Jabzhi are not permitted although a Lung-go - a raised roof without windows or any enclosures shall be permitted to facilitate storage and the provision of roof top water tanks. In keeping with the Bhutan Building Rules this space cannot be utilised for human habitation. * Railings on external balconies to be traditional and replicated correctly and faithfully. * Elements like Norbu Bagam, Norbu Horzhu, Gomang Rabsel, Kemar, Gyaltshen and Sertog are not permissible.