Fire Code Expert answers fire code questions asked in plain words, with the clause that says so, or a straight statement that the code does not say. It is built by Siya Habitats Pvt. Ltd., the technology and services division of IFE, Nagpur. Public answers from Maharashtra and Delhi fire law are free on the Siya Habitats site, with no sign-in.
A fire code is not software code. It is the rulebook for fire safety in buildings: what a building must have, how it is approved and how it is kept safe afterwards. Exits, staircases, sprinklers, hydrants, alarms, fire NOCs and audits all come from it. In India it comes in three tiers:
It depends on the state and on when the building was approved. In Maharashtra and Delhi the state Act and Rules bind. Elsewhere in India, a building approved before 2026 is judged against NBC 2016 Part 4, and one approved in 2026 or later against NBCS 2026 Part F, together with the state's own bye-laws. A state rule may only be equal to or stricter than the national one.
Fire Code Expert answers for the rules that applied when the building was approved, not only for the rules in force today. For a worked view of how Maharashtra's Schedule I sets fire installations by occupancy and height, read Siya Habitats' guide to fire safety requirements by building height and occupancy in Maharashtra.
Questions about a real building, in plain words. For example:
What you get back is the rule and its clause, or a plain "the code does not say".
In fire safety, a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. A guessed travel distance or a guessed tank size can end up on a drawing, in an audit report or in a site decision. Fire Code Expert is built to refuse rather than guess: when the code does not hold a value, it says so, and tells you that plainly instead of filling the gap. That honesty is what makes the answers it does give worth relying on.
The free public answers on the Siya Habitats site come from the Maharashtra and Delhi fire law, or, for the rest of India, from the National Building Code edition that applies to the building's age, with the clause cited. The full Fire Code Expert, with NBC 2016, NBCS 2026 and the Indian Standards, runs inside Fire Audit Pro and needs a sign-in.
IFEM's programmes are built around Indian legislation and standards first, including the National Building Code 2016 and the relevant Bureau of Indian Standards codes. A student who learns to ask "which clause says so?" is building the habit a fire officer, auditor or consultant needs every day. Fire Code Expert works the same way: it answers with the rule and its clause, so the answer can be checked against the source.
The same habit serves working professionals. A building owner, an architect or a facility manager can ask a direct question and get an answer they can take back to the code book. Try Fire Code Expert for clause-cited fire code answers on the Siya Habitats site, or read about Siya Habitats, the company that builds it.
Yes, for public answers from Maharashtra and Delhi fire law, asked on the Siya Habitats site with no sign-in. The full Fire Code Expert, with NBC 2016, NBCS 2026 and the Indian Standards, runs inside Fire Audit Pro and needs a sign-in.
Fire Code Expert says so plainly. It gives the clause when the code holds an answer, and a straight statement that the code does not say when it does not.
Yes. It answers for the rules that applied at the building's approval, not only for the rules in force today.
No. A fire code is the set of laws and building standards that decide what fire safety a building must have.