Article 98. Design and estimate documentation of the Building Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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1. Construction, as well as laying of communications, engineering preparation of the territory, landscaping and landscaping are carried out according to design and estimate documentation developed in accordance with approved urban planning projects.

In the cases provided for in paragraph 4 of this article, construction is allowed without design estimates or according to draft designs.

2. The compliance of the design values of the parameters and other characteristics of the construction site with safety requirements, as well as the planned measures to ensure its safety, must be justified by references to the requirements of this Code and state regulatory documents.

3. In the absence of these requirements, the compliance of the design values and characteristics of the construction site with safety requirements, as well as the planned measures to ensure its safety, must be justified in one or more ways.:

1) research results;

2) calculations and (or) tests performed according to certified or otherwise approved methods;

3) modeling scenarios for the occurrence of dangerous (harmful) natural, man-made and (or) anthropogenic processes and phenomena, including an unfavorable combination of dangerous (harmful) natural, man-made and (or) anthropogenic processes and phenomena;

4) assessment of the risk of dangerous (harmful) natural, man-made and (or) anthropogenic processes and phenomena.

The justification should take into account the results of engineering surveys.

4. Without design and estimate documentation based on sketches (draft designs), the customer (owner), in coordination with local executive bodies of cities of republican significance, the capital, districts (cities of regional significance), may carry out:

1) construction of individual residential buildings not higher than two floors, except for construction in areas (zones) of increased seismic hazard in accordance with maps of seismic microzoning, as well as maps of mudflow, landslide and avalanche hazards and risks;

2) construction of household buildings on the territory of land plots intended for personal subsidiary farming, gardening and horticulture;

3) construction of on-site communication lines;

4) landscaping on land plots intended for personal subsidiary farming and suburban areas, which does not require changing existing engineering networks;

5) the construction of a fish pond with an area of a water mirror of one pond not exceeding 0.15 hectares; the construction of fish breeding facilities in water protection strips; the construction of other facilities (mobile complexes of container, block and modular design, structures built from collapsible structures) for aquaculture;

6) construction of mobile complexes of container, block and modular design, as well as single-storey buildings (structures) for trade, catering and consumer services enterprises, erected from collapsible structures;

7) in case of an emergency and (or) emergency situations, restoration work, construction of prefabricated buildings and structures of no more than two floors, which are construction objects classified as the third level of responsibility;

8) construction of buildings and structures for temporary, seasonal or auxiliary purposes (warehouses and storages (with a span of up to 6 meters, a height of up to 7 meters and an area of up to 2000 square meters inclusive) requiring special conditions for storing goods and materials) that are not dangerous due to fire, explosion, gas, chemically aggressive, poisonous and toxic substances, greenhouses, greenhouses, pavilions, communication facilities, lighting, fencing and similar structures;

9) construction of temporary residential and (or) household buildings for seasonal work and animal husbandry;

10) construction of open-type parking lots for no more than fifty motor vehicles, as well as garages with boxes for no more than two motor vehicles;

11) major repairs of linear engineering networks and structures on them, which do not require changing their position, marking the depth (height) of laying, pipe diameter;

12) construction of small architectural forms and fencing of territories;

13) construction of outdoor sports grounds, sidewalks, paving around buildings (structures);

14) repair and replacement of technological or engineering equipment units for which the technological resource has been exhausted and which do not require reconstruction or redesign of the enterprise (workshop);

15) protection of engineering networks from electrocorrosion;

16) construction of detached single-storey buildings (structures) to accommodate individual business facilities with a total area of up to 20 square meters;

17) reconstruction of individual residential buildings not higher than two floors, which does not require the allocation of an additional land plot (cutting of the territory), not exceeding two floors after reconstruction;

18) redevelopment (re-equipment) of non-industrial premises, carried out (carried out) in construction sites and not requiring (not requiring) changes in load-bearing structures;

19) construction of power supply networks with an installed capacity of up to 200 kW for business entities;

20) construction and installation of an automatic security and fire alarm system inside administrative and industrial buildings;

21) construction of water supply and sanitation networks for individual residential buildings;

22) construction of on-site networks and installation of in-house domestic gas supply systems for individual residential buildings or detached single-storey buildings (structures) to accommodate business facilities with a total area of up to 20 square meters;

23) selective overhaul of an apartment building.

During the reconstruction (redevelopment, re-equipment) of residential and non-residential premises in residential buildings (residential buildings), which does not require the allocation of additional land (cutting of the territory), is not associated with any changes in load-bearing structures, engineering systems and communications, does not impair architectural, aesthetic, fire, explosion and sanitary qualities, does not harmful effects on the environment during operation, coordination of draft designs with local executive bodies for architecture and urban planning of cities of republican significance, the capital, districts, and cities of regional significance is not required.

Local executive bodies for architecture and urban planning of cities of republican significance, the capital, districts, and cities of regional significance keep records of agreed draft designs.

5. The procedure for the development, mandatory composition and content of design and estimate documentation are established by state regulatory documents.

6. Construction, expansion, reconstruction, modernization, conservation and postutilization of transport infrastructure facilities specified in paragraph 5 of Article 23-1 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Transport in the Republic of Kazakhstan" are carried out according to the design assignment and project documentation agreed with the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

7. The procedure for approving design and estimate documentation is determined in accordance with this Code and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

8. The rules and procedure for conducting contract work in the implementation of design and estimate documentation are established in accordance with this Code and the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

9. The design and estimate documentation, for which construction has not been started within three or more years after its approval in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, is considered outdated and is used for implementation after adjustment, repeated comprehensive non-departmental examination of the construction project and re-approval in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

10. The adjustment of the design and estimate documentation in cases of a justified need to make changes and additions to it is carried out in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

11. To make adjustments to the design and estimate documentation, the design organization that developed it is involved.

If the author(s) of the design and estimate documentation refuse to provide author support, the design organization is determined in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

12. If, by the decision of the customer, there is a justified need to adjust the design and estimate documentation approved in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, then adjustment of the pre-design documentation (if any) is not required.

13. The inclusion of design and estimate documentation in the national archival fund, guarantees of ownership rights to these documents, as well as rights of use and restrictions on their use are established in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

14. Design and estimate documentation executed by foreign legal entities or individual specialists for construction on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with the exception of design and estimate documentation for facilities of special economic zones, special industrial zones, must be developed on the terms and stages of design work, in the composition and scope of design and estimate documentation, which are established by this Code, state regulatory documents and the design assignment, as well as in compliance with mandatory requirements, established by state regulatory documents, including fire and industrial safety requirements, unless otherwise provided by international treaties ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Deviations from this rule are allowed.:

1) by the decision of the customer (investor), when the customer (investor) fulfills the following mandatory conditions in aggregate:

compliance with fire and explosion safety standards, structural reliability, stability of the construction facility and labor protection, established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and state regulatory documents, which must be confirmed by a comprehensive non-departmental examination of construction projects.;

providing suppliers of goods (works and services) with the information necessary for them in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and state regulatory documents;

2) during the design, construction, reconstruction, technical re-equipment, expansion of a construction facility included in a single industrialization map.

15. Design and estimate documentation without an estimate section must be entered into the automated digital system of the state urban planning cadastre in accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized body for architecture, urban planning and construction.

16. The organization of the process of developing design and estimate documentation is carried out on the portal for organizing the development and examination of projects based on the "one-stop shop" principle, which is mandatory for construction projects financed by public investments.

The Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 9, 2026 No. 253-VIII SAM

This Code regulates public relations related to the implementation of architectural, urban planning and construction activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the formation of a full-fledged habitat and human activity, planning and development of settlements, interuniverse territories, ensuring the safety of construction sites at all stages of their life cycle.

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