Indian State Government: Towers Taller Than 70 M Need FELs

Mumbai; photo by Jaskaran Singh for Pixabay

The Maharashtra Government’s Energy Development Agency, which covers large Indian cities including Mumbai and Thane, issued an advisory on July 23 stating that all high-rise towers of at least 70 m have Fire Evacuation Lifts (FELs), the Free Press Journal reports. A FEL is an elevator designed to resist fire for at least 2 h that is located in an unoccupied part of a building. The source says that of Mumbai’s 368 tall buildings, only 13 have FELs installed, even after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corp. issued a notification in 2018 mandating them. Mumbai and Thane together have a total of 21 tall buildings with FELs, which Mumbai Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer Hemant Parab said is due to the projects being so time-consuming.

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