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What we learn designing, installing and maintaining mechanical parking in India — written down with the sources, so you can check it.
Featured · Regulation
Maharashtra's 2024 fire circular and mechanical parking
The Directorate of Maharashtra Fire Service issued parking-structure guidelines in July 2024. They set height limits, sprinkler rules and an EV-charging bar that change how puzzle, stack and tower systems are designed. Here is what applies, and what it changes on a plot.
02 Oct 2026 · 2 min read · Pune
Regulation · Lucknow
Lucknow and Ghaziabad: UP's 11 sqm triple-stack ECS
Uttar Pradesh's 2025 model building byelaws count a mechanically stacked car at 16 sqm for double stacking and 11 sqm for triple stacking, against 32 sqm in a conventional basement. Here is what that does to a basement, and what to confirm before relying on it.
09 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Regulation · Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: parking as a share of FSI and a 1.5× stack credit
Gujarat's CGDCR 2017 sets parking as a percentage of utilised FSI, not bays per flat. Mechanised stacked parking is credited at 1.5 times its area, and basements used for mechanised parking have no maximum height.
08 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Regulation · Delhi
Gurugram parking: 1.5 ECS per flat and a 4.75 m height cap
Across the border from Delhi, the ECS is counted differently. The Haryana Building Code 2017 asks for 1.5 ECS per flat in group housing, gives no reduced area for stacked parking, and limits a basement or floor with mechanical parking to 4.75 m clear height.
07 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Research · Pune
How many bays a 2,000 sqm plot really yields
A car bay is 12.5 sqm on paper. Once you add the aisle, the ramp and the turning circle, a surface lot in Pune delivers one bay for every 23 to 28 sqm. Here is where the area goes, and how much of it mechanical stacking gets back.
01 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Kolkata
Kolkata now allows mechanical parking on every floor (2025)
Until August 2025, Rule 77(3) of the KMC Building Rules 2009 allowed stack parking only at ground level. Notification 597 of 14 Aug 2025 now allows mechanical parking on all floors, two tiers or more, with FAR benefit for one tier and no back-to-back parking.
26 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
Regulation · Hyderabad
Hyderabad counts parking by area, not bays
Under the Telangana Building Rules 2012, GHMC asks for 30% of built-up area as parking for residential buildings, 40% for commercial, 60% for malls and IT complexes. A mechanical system has to prove an area equivalence, not a bay count.
21 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Bengaluru
Bengaluru: the 18 sqm bay and the 3.6 m basement
BBMP's bye-laws set the largest car bay in the country at 3.0 × 6.0 m and expressly permit multi-stage parking and silos — with a 3.6 m basement clear height and the area per car left to the authority.
16 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Chennai
Chennai parking bands and the 2025 cap on individual houses
TNCDBR 2019 scales residential parking by floor area — nothing below 25 sqm, a two-wheeler to 50, half a car to 75, a car above. In October 2025 Tamil Nadu capped what an individual house may provide.
11 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Mumbai
Mumbai's 25% visitor parking rule and redevelopment norms
DCPR 2034 asks for a quarter of the stipulated car spaces again as visitor parking, then relaxes the whole requirement for redevelopment schemes under Regulation 33. The two rules together decide most Mumbai parking plans.
06 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Research
Stack, puzzle or tower: which system fits which plot
The choice between a two-level stacker, a puzzle system and an automated tower is decided by three numbers on the plot — headroom, footprint and the number of cars — long before brand or price. A working guide to the fit.
01 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
Research
Headroom: the number that decides mechanical parking
Every mechanical parking enquiry we cannot help has the same cause: the beam soffit was fixed before anyone asked. The regulations set minimums for stilts; the systems need more. Here are the numbers, city by city.
27 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Regulation · Pune
Pune TOD zones: where the 50% parking cut really applies
Regulation 14.2.1.6 of UDCPR 2020 halves the parking requirement inside a notified transit-oriented development zone. Proximity to a metro station is not enough; the boundary has to be notified, and the reduction changes the yield arithmetic on every plot inside it.
22 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
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