In order to promote public education and public safety, equal justice for all, a better informed citizenry, the rule of law, world trade and world peace, this legal document is hereby made available on a noncommercial basis, as it is the right of all humans to know and speak the laws that govern them. (For more information: 12 Tables of Code ) Name of Standards Organization: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Division Name: Civil Engineering Section Name: National Building Code (CED 46) Designator of Legally Binding Document: SP 7 This item includes two versions of volume 1. You may download in.gov.nbc.2016.vol1.digital.pdf (born digital file) or nationalbuilding01.pdf (scan of the printed document). Images are all also available as conversions to .svg files. You may browse the images/ directory. This is the first of two volumes. Please also see Volume 2.