Architects and House Construction in DHA Phase 6 Islamabad
DHA Phase 6 Islamabad (Phase VI, formerly Phase 2 Extension) / DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi
Avenir Developments designs houses for DHA Phase 6 plots, prepares the submission drawings for DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi's approval, and builds them. 1 Kanal is the plot size DHA lists in every balloted sector, DHA's first announced possession event was in August 2024, and many streets have no completed house yet, so yours may be the first on its street.
That changes the design. Floor levels, drainage and basement walls have to be set from the road and from DHA's reference manhole, because there is often no house next door to take them from. This page sets out what DHA has balloted in Phase 6, which sectors have possession, the rules that shape a house on a 10 Marla, 1 Kanal or 2 Kanal plot, what the house costs against the plot, and how a build is timed around DHA's deadlines.
The facts a plot owner needs before any design work. Each comes from DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi's own documents unless it says otherwise.
Every fortnight DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi publishes a Price Valuation Benchmarking sheet. Set the prices aside and it is the clearest public record of which Phase 6 sectors exist as balloted plots, and in which sizes. This is the 16 to 30 September 2026 edition, read together with the possession events on record.
| Sector | 2 Kanal (1,000 sq yd) | 1 Kanal (500 sq yd) | 10 Marla (250 sq yd) | Commercial 4 Marla | Commercial 8 Marla | Possession record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| River View 2 Kanal (1,000 sq yd)1 Kanal (500 sq yd) | None published | |||||
| A 1 Kanal (500 sq yd)Commercial 4 MarlaCommercial 8 Marla | None published | |||||
| A-1 1 Kanal (500 sq yd) | None published | |||||
| A-2 1 Kanal (500 sq yd) | None published | |||||
| B-3 1 Kanal (500 sq yd)10 Marla (250 sq yd)Commercial 4 Marla | Ceremonies announced for 13 Aug 2024 and 30 Jan 2025 | |||||
| C-1 1 Kanal (500 sq yd) | None published | |||||
| C-2 1 Kanal (500 sq yd)Commercial 4 Marla | Ceremonies announced for 13 Aug 2024 and 30 Jan 2025 | |||||
| C-3 1 Kanal (500 sq yd) | None published | |||||
| C-3 Extension 1 Kanal (500 sq yd) | Ceremony announced for 30 Jan 2025 | |||||
| D-1 1 Kanal (500 sq yd)10 Marla (250 sq yd) | None published |
Each mark is a plot category that DHA's sheet lists in that sector. "None published" means no DHA possession notice was found for the sector as at 29 September 2026.
DHA also lists un-balloted Phase 6 certificates under the letters A to T. A certificate is an entitlement to a plot, not a plot: it has no position, dimensions or site plan yet, so there is nothing to design on. DHA's sheet notes development charges of Rs 600,000 on certificates numbered 1 to 6180 and Rs 1,465,000 from 6181 onwards.
Sources: DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Price Valuation Benchmarking, 16 to 30 September 2026, published on the DHAI-R website; Zameen News, reporting DHA's announcement of the 13 August 2024 ceremony; property media reports (23 January 2025) of the ceremony DHA announced for 30 January 2025. DHA did not publish lists of the individual plots.
Possession is announced by sector but granted plot by plot. You clear your dues and apply; DHA issues a site plan marking your gate, manhole and water point; and possession means a demarcated plot with its four corners fixed (regs. 6.3.1, 6.3.2 and 1.2.43). Until then DHA remains the custodian of the plot (reg. 7.2).
| What you hold | What can be done now | What has to wait |
|---|---|---|
| A certificate | Settle the brief, the size of house and the budget, including DHA's development charges | Any drawing, because there is no plot to design for yet |
| A balloted plot without possession | Brief, budget and an early concept for the plot category; walk the street to see how the ground sits against the road | Submission drawings, which depend on the site plan's gate, manhole and water point and on the road's final levels |
| Possession and a site plan | Soil test, full design, the submission set and construction planning | Excavation during the monsoon, and any work on site before drawings are approved |
DHA announced a possession ceremony for Sectors B-3 and C-2, residential and commercial, at the possession area in B-3 for 13 August 2024. A second ceremony, announced for 30 January 2025, was reported by property media to cover 277 plots in B-3, 161 in C-2 (141 residential and 20 commercial) and 895 in C-3 Extension (774 residential and 121 commercial); DHA did not publish the list of plots. Owners of re-balloted plots in developed areas pay the possession charges and take physical possession.
DHA's benchmark also lists River View, A, A-1, A-2, C-1, C-3 and D-1 as balloted, and we found no published possession notice for them as at 29 September 2026. Dealer listings describe some of these sectors as possessionable; treat that as a prompt to ask, not as confirmation. If your plot is in one of those sectors, ask DHA's Town Planning Directorate about your plot number before paying for drawings.
Send whatever you have: a certificate, an allotment letter or a site plan. We will tell you what can be designed now and what should wait for DHA.
In an established phase an architect reads the street: the neighbours' floor levels, the finished road, where the rain already goes. On most Phase 6 streets those reference points do not exist yet. DHA's regulations fix the ones that matter, and each has a consequence for your drawings.
Section through a Phase 6 plot and its road. Height and levels on a Phase 6 plot under DHAI-R regs. 1.2.35, 1.2.42, 8.56.3, 8.56.7, 8.56.9 and 8.56.11. Not to scale.
Plinth is measured from the top of the finished road surface at the centre of your plot's frontage and may not exceed 4 ft 6 in; building height is measured from the crown of the front road.
Regs. 1.2.42, 8.56.7 and 1.2.35
Where the road's final surface is not yet laid, confirm the reference level with Building Control before floor levels are fixed. A few inches here decide the ramp gradient, the basement depth and whether rainwater runs towards the house or away from it.
Submission drawings must show the reference service manhole with its invert level, and sewage, wastewater and rainwater must run as separate lines.
Regs. 8.6.10 and 8.6.13
The invert level on your site plan decides how low a bathroom or kitchen can sit and still drain by gravity. A basement bathroom below it needs mechanical disposal (reg. 8.56.11.12), which is simple to plan and expensive to add later.
Excavation beside a built house must be manual and needs a 5 ft safety distance; a neighbour's agreement or an affidavit goes into the file; and seepage treatment between plots at different levels must be shown on the drawings.
Regs. 8.21.1, 8.56.11.4, 8.56.11.6 and 8.18
If you build first, your side and rear walls will one day stand beside a neighbour's excavation. We design the foundations, damp-proofing and any retaining at the property line on that assumption, so the house does not depend on what the neighbour builds.
A lower plot must take a 6-inch pipe through its boundary or retaining wall to drain water trapped on the higher plot behind it, as a temporary arrangement until that plot is built. Where back-to-back plots differ by 5 ft or more, the first owner to build puts up the RCC retaining wall with a stability certificate.
Regs. 8.20, 8.65.1 and 8.65.2
Place the pipe and the rear setback's drainage at design stage, and budget the rear retaining wall if your plot sits below the one behind, so nobody has to break through a finished wall later.
A basement is any structure wholly or partly below natural ground or approach road level. It is allowed with the setbacks kept clear, an RCC retaining wall to the plot line, 9-inch waterproofed RCC walls, a clear height of 8 ft 6 in to 10 ft 6 in, an emergency exit, and no more than 4 ft 6 in showing above ground.
Regs. 1.2.14, 8.56.11.7, 8.56.11.8, 8.56.11.10, 8.56.11.13 and 8.56.11
On a plot that falls away from its road, the lower floor is legally a basement. Its retaining walls, waterproofing and ventilation belong in the first budget, and the house must still read as two storeys within 37 ft.
The bearing capacity test is arranged through a DHA-approved laboratory, with at least two boreholes, and the report goes into the submission file. Foundations deeper than 12 ft need RCC piling on all four sides.
Regs. 8.3, 8.4.1, 8.6.19 and 8.51
A newly developed sector can mix cut and filled ground within a single street, and Islamabad sits in Seismic Zone 2B of the Building Code of Pakistan. Foundations are designed from the report for your plot, not from a neighbour's.
No excavation is allowed during the monsoon. Demarcation stops about a week before it begins, around 15 July, and DHA can cancel demarcation on sites where work has not started.
Reg. 8.19
An approval that arrives in late June may not let you dig until the rains end. The timing section below shows how to plan around it.
Plan of an unbuilt Phase 6 street. What the first house on a street has to provide for under regs. 8.6.10, 8.6.13, 8.20, 8.21.1 and 8.65. Not to scale.
Ground levels also vary from street to street. Dealer listings for Phase 6 plots often note whether a plot sits above its road or level with it, and each case produces a different house: a raised plot needs a longer ramp and retaining along the frontage, while a lower plot gains a basement more easily but has to manage water.
DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi counts a marla as 25 sq yd, or 225 sq ft, so a 1 Kanal plot is 500 sq yd or 4,500 sq ft. Covered area and setbacks come from the plot-size table in regulation 8.54, applied to the dimensions on your site plan. These are the three categories DHA lists in Phase 6.
Ground-floor envelopes for the three Phase 6 plot categories. Setbacks and ground-floor coverage under DHAI-R reg. 8.54 for 250, 500 and 1,000 sq yd plots, drawn on the common plot dimensions. Not to scale.
| Plot category | Sectors where DHA lists it | Ground floor (incl. porch) | Front / rear / sides | First floor | Ground floor on a typical plot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Marla, 250 sq yd (2,250 sq ft) | B-3 and D-1 | 70 per cent | 10 ft / 3 ft / 3 ft and 3 ft | 90 per cent of the ground floor including the porch area, or the ground-floor footprint less the porch | About 1,575 sq ft |
| 1 Kanal, 500 sq yd (4,500 sq ft) | Every balloted sector | 68 per cent | 15 ft / 5 ft / 5 ft and 5 ft | Same rule | About 3,060 sq ft |
| 2 Kanal, 1,000 sq yd (9,000 sq ft) | River View | 60 per cent | 20 ft / 5 ft / 5 ft and 5 ft | Same rule | About 5,400 sq ft |
Two floors at those percentages give roughly 3,000 sq ft on a 10 Marla plot, 5,800 sq ft on a 1 Kanal plot and 10,300 sq ft on a 2 Kanal plot before any basement or mumty, and covered area under DHA's definition includes the basement, porch, verandahs and mumty (reg. 8.56.6). No house under 2,000 sq ft of construction is approved (reg. 8.56.5.5).
The narrowest envelope on the page: 3 ft on each side means the plan works as a single band of rooms with light from the front and the rear, and the stair usually sits against a side wall. Shades may project no more than 1 ft 6 in into the side and rear setbacks (reg. 8.56.12). The car porch is limited to 20 by 18 ft (reg. 8.56.10.1). Start the brief from the rooms the family needs; the 2,000 sq ft minimum is easily met.
10 Marla house designThe plot category DHA lists in every Phase 6 sector. The 15 ft front setback can be relaxed by up to 2 ft on payment (reg. 8.54.7.2); the porch may be up to 30 by 35 ft with a second porch of 18 by 18 ft on corner plots, plots with two entries or frontages of 70 ft or more (regs. 8.56.10.1 and 8.56.10.4), and its front wall stands 20 ft from the plot line (reg. 8.56.10.20). A rainwater harvesting tank of 1,200 gallons is mandatory, in the front setback, 2 ft from the neighbour and 3 ft from the front wall, and it has to appear on the submission drawing (regs. 8.67.4 and 8.67.5). Two gates are allowed only on corner plots or plots with roads on two sides (reg. 6.5.3).
1 Kanal house designCoverage falls to 60 per cent, so a 2 Kanal house is planned around its garden rather than filling the plot. The rainwater tank rises to 1,800 gallons (reg. 8.67.5) and the overhead tank may be up to 1,200 gallons (reg. 8.67.2). A second porch is allowed where the frontage is 70 ft or more (reg. 8.56.10.4), and a second gate only on a corner or a plot with roads on two sides (reg. 6.5.3). River View is also the only Phase 6 sector with 2 Kanal plots on DHA's sheet; it is not the same sector as River View South in DHA Phase 4.
2 Kanal house designMany setback, height and coverage figures that turn up online are DHA Lahore's, or come from DHAI-R's superseded 2016 regulations. DHA Lahore's April 2026 regulations allow 39 ft; DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi allows 37 ft. The figures on this page are from regulation 8.54 of DHAI-R's current byelaws, and we apply them to your site plan at the brief stage.
Sources: DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Revised Byelaws and Regulations 2022, updated 2023, regulation 8.54 on printed page 38 and the clauses cited; DHAI-R Building Control Directorate, Visual Interpretation of DHAI-R Byelaws (July 2026); DHA Lahore Construction and Development Regulations, April 2026 edition. Checked 29 September 2026.
DHA's benchmark for 16 to 30 September 2026 values a balloted 1 Kanal plot in Phase 6 at between PKR 9.0 million and PKR 25.0 million depending on the sector, with Sector A and River View at the top of the range and C-1 and D-1 at the bottom.
On Avenir's published construction rates for DHA Islamabad, a complete house plans at PKR 7,310 per sq ft of covered area at Essential specification, PKR 8,370 at Standard, PKR 11,020 at Premium and PKR 14,680 at Luxury. At the Standard rate, a 1 Kanal house with 5,800 sq ft on the ground and first floors and no basement plans at about PKR 4.85 crore, and at Premium about PKR 6.39 crore.
In Phase 6 the house is therefore roughly two to five times the value of the land. The figures that move your total are design decisions: covered area, a basement, the specification, and how much retaining and drainage the plot's levels demand. All of them are settled on paper before a contractor prices anything.
| Plot | Covered area | Standard, PKR 8,370 per sq ft | Premium, PKR 11,020 per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Marla | 3,000 sq ft | About PKR 2.51 crore | About PKR 3.31 crore |
| 1 Kanal | 5,800 sq ft | About PKR 4.85 crore | About PKR 6.39 crore |
| 2 Kanal | 10,300 sq ft | About PKR 8.62 crore | About PKR 11.35 crore |
A basement is priced separately, at its own grey-structure rate, so put your own covered area and basement through the construction cost calculator, or see the full rate tables in our house construction cost guide. A house on a Phase 6 plot that sits well above or below its road carries retaining and drainage work that the calculator does not price; we set it out separately once we have seen the site plan.
These are the figures printed in the byelaws' schedule of charges, effective 1 December 2022. DHA revises the schedule from time to time (reg. 3.22), so confirm current dues with its Finance Directorate before you budget.
| Charge | Printed rate | 1 Kanal example |
|---|---|---|
| Site plan and possession (reg. 3.10.1) | Rs 7,500 per marla | Rs 150,000 |
| Drawing scrutiny (reg. 3.11.1) | Rs 20 per sq ft of covered area for residential plots above 400 sq yd; ask DHA for the 10 Marla rate | Rs 116,000 for 5,800 sq ft |
| Security deposit, refunded with the completion certificate (regs. 3.20 and 8.6.23) | Rs 75,000 at 500 sq yd and above; Rs 40,000 below | Rs 75,000 |
| Water and electricity connections (reg. 3.10.1) | Rs 140,000 and Rs 160,000 per meter | Rs 300,000 |
| Completion certificate, first owner (reg. 3.12.1) | Rs 25,000 | Rs 25,000 |
| Corner plot or opening on two roads (reg. 3.17.1) | Rs 200,000 at 500 sq yd and above; Rs 100,000 below | Only if it applies |
| Non-utilisation of an unbuilt plot (reg. 3.6.1) | Rs 25,000 a year for 1 Kanal | Ask DHA how it applies to your plot |
Send the site plan, or the sector and plot number, and tell us whether you want a basement. In the briefing we go through the level, drainage and basement questions your plot raises, the house you want, and the scope of the design work.
Avenir Developments is an architecture, interior design and construction company founded in 2012, with an office at 101, Luxus Mall, Gulberg Greens, Islamabad, and construction delivered in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. On a Phase 6 house we can take the whole route from brief to handover, or any part of it.
Brief, space planning, elevations and 3D views, worked to your site plan's levels and DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi's rules from the first sketch, so the submission set follows from the design rather than being drawn against it.
The set that regulation 8.6 describes: basement, ground floor, first floor and roof plans with the mumty; a front elevation, or two on a corner plot; a section through the stairs; the boundary wall, gate, ramp and water channel; the reference manhole with its invert level; the rainwater tank; schedules of areas, doors and windows; and the isometric colour view DHA asks for. It goes in with the structural drawings and the bearing capacity report.
Structural design to DHA's requirement for a PEC-registered engineer with an MSc in structures on DHA's panel (reg. 1.2.61); we confirm who signs, and their registrations, in writing before you appoint us. Electrical, plumbing and drainage are coordinated with the architecture before submission, including the generator, solar and tank positions and any basement sump.
Grey structure, finishing or turnkey construction in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, planned against the approved drawings and DHA's inspection chart, with the boundary wall, demarcation and water connection sequenced the way DHA requires.
Design, approvals, BOQ, construction and handover under one agreement, so the drawings, the budget and the site answer to the same team.
Interior design and 3D views developed with the architecture rather than after it.
Avenir has no completed house in Phase 6 to show yet; the phase's first announced possession event was in 2024. These projects are Avenir's work on DHA Islamabad plots and beside DHA's Islamabad phases.
A 1 Kanal residence designed by Avenir for a DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi plot, under the same authority that governs Phase 6.
View the projectA 1 Kanal house in DHA Phase 2, which DHA describes as fully urbanised, where the neighbours set the levels that Phase 6 owners have to set for themselves.
View the projectAvenir's apartment development on GT Road beside DHA Phases 2, 3 and 5, where we are responsible for design and delivery together.
View the projectDHA requires the architect who signs your drawings to be registered with PCATP and on DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi's panel, the structural engineer to be PEC-registered and on the panel, and the contractor to be registered with DHA and renewed every year (regs. 1.2.48, 1.2.61, 7.27 and 8.11). DHA publishes its current lists of registered architects and structural engineers on the affiliates page of its website. Ask each firm who signs, and ask for the registration letters. We provide our professionals' registrations in writing on request. Our DHA Islamabad page sets out the other checks worth making before you appoint anyone.
Three deadlines in DHA's regulations decide when a Phase 6 project should start: the monsoon, the three-month life of an approval and the three-year limit on construction. This is the order of work, with the clock each step starts or depends on.
Clear your dues and apply. The site plan fixes the gate, manhole and water point that the design starts from.
Regs. 6.3.1 and 6.3.2
Through a DHA-approved laboratory, with at least two boreholes. The report goes into the submission file.
Regs. 8.3 and 8.4.1
Three signed sets on 30 by 40 inch sheets. The byelaws provide for approval, or the return of observations, within 15 working days of a complete submission.
Regs. 8.6.1 and 8.7
An approved drawing is valid for three months. After that it has to be revalidated for a fee.
Reg. 8.9
DHA's survey team fixes the corners. The boundary wall goes up to DPC level and is checked before the house itself starts, and the water connection follows demarcation.
Regs. 8.13, 7.19 and 8.16
Each stage is inspected and signed on DHA's inspection chart. Termite treatment is required during construction, and site work may run until 7 pm in winter and 9 pm in summer.
Regs. 8.30, 8.24 and 7.3
The house must be finished within three years of approval, or DHA imposes a penalty. Completion drawings then go in for the completion certificate.
Regs. 8.31.1 and 8.34
The Phase 6 build year. When to submit, when to dig, and the three-month validity window, under regs. 8.7, 8.9 and 8.19. Monsoon dates are approximate; DHA sets them each year.
The full approval route, and what DHA checks at each stage, is set out on our DHA Islamabad page.
Owners who live overseas need the same drawings and approvals as everyone else, and a way to act at DHA's counters without flying in for each step. Phase 6 adds one more reason to plan this early: with no neighbour to keep an eye on the plot, the site plan, demarcation and boundary wall are the owner's first physical presence on the street.
Possession paperwork, submission forms and undertakings need the owner's signature or an attorney's. DHA registers general and special powers of attorney; the printed schedule lists Rs 50,000 for a general and Rs 25,000 for a special power of attorney (reg. 3.13). Take legal advice on the wording and put it in place before possession.
Plans, elevations and 3D views are presented online, and you approve each drawing in writing before it moves to the next stage.
A change requested after a stage is signed off is priced and approved as a change, so the drawings, the budget and the site stay in step.
If you want to be present for demarcation or a key inspection, plan the three-month validity and the monsoon window around your trip.
Your allotment letter, the site plan and possession letter if issued, and a list of the rooms your family needs.
More on how overseas clients work with us: building in Pakistan from abroad.
Tell us where you live and when suits you to talk. The first call covers your plot's stage, the house you want, and what DHA will need from you or your attorney.
None of these is exotic. Each follows from treating an empty street like an established one, and each is cheaper to avoid on paper than to fix on site.
A certificate has no dimensions or site plan. Drawings made on assumed dimensions are redrawn when the plot is balloted.
Plinth and height are measured from the finished road. A house set out from a half-built road can end up with a ramp that is too steep or a basement that floods.
Both circulate widely online. DHA Lahore allows 39 ft; DHAI-R allows 37 ft. Coverage and setbacks come from regulation 8.54 of the current byelaws.
DHA requires it, and a new sector can have filled ground on one side of a street and cut ground on the other. The structure is sized from the report.
A basement bathroom below the manhole invert needs mechanical disposal, and every basement needs a 3 by 3 ft emergency exit (regs. 8.56.11.12 and 8.56.11.13). Both are cheap on paper and expensive after the slab.
Approved drawings run out after three months. An approval in June, with the monsoon ahead, can expire before the first excavator arrives.
Drawings signed by an architect or engineer who is not on DHAI-R's panel, or work by a contractor who is not DHA-registered, stall at Building Control. Check the lists before you sign.
DHA allows it in the basement, at the front of the roof or in the front lawn, never in the side or rear setbacks. Plan the position with the electrical design.
Only if your own plot has possession and a site plan. DHA announced a possession ceremony for Sectors B-3 and C-2 for 13 August 2024, and a second ceremony announced for 30 January 2025 was reported to cover B-3, C-2 and C-3 Extension. DHA did not publish lists of the plots handed over, so possession has to be confirmed plot by plot with DHA's Town Planning Directorate. Once you have the site plan, the soil test, design and submission can begin.
DHA's benchmark for 16 to 30 September 2026 lists 1 Kanal (500 sq yd) plots in every balloted sector, 2 Kanal (1,000 sq yd) plots in River View, and 10 Marla (250 sq yd) plots in B-3 and D-1. The sheet lists no 5 Marla residential category. Commercial plots are listed as 4 Marla in A, B-3 and C-2, and 8 Marla in A. DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi counts a marla as 25 sq yd, so 1 Kanal is 4,500 sq ft.
The DHA Islamabad and DHA Rawalpindi Revised Byelaws and Regulations 2022, updated 2023, which cover every DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi phase. They are not DHA Lahore's regulations: the height limit, for example, is 37 ft here against 39 ft in DHA Lahore's April 2026 edition. Setbacks and covered area for your plot come from the plot-size table in regulation 8.54.
Under regulation 8.54, a 500 sq yd plot may cover 68 per cent of its area on the ground floor including the porch, with setbacks of 15 ft at the front, 5 ft at the rear and 5 ft on each side. The first floor may be 90 per cent of the ground floor including the porch area, or the ground-floor footprint less the porch. On a 50 by 90 ft plot that is about 3,060 sq ft on the ground floor, and the front setback may be relaxed by up to 2 ft on payment.
Two storeys counted from the road, with a maximum height of 37 ft from the crown of the front road including the water tank and mumty; DHA may allow one more foot in exceptional cases on payment and approval, and its July 2026 visual guide shows 40 ft where a lift is installed. A basement is allowed if the setbacks stay clear, an RCC retaining wall is built to the plot line, the walls are 9-inch waterproofed RCC, and no more than 4 ft 6 in shows above ground; the house must still read as two storeys.
Floor levels are measured from the finished road at the centre of your frontage, so a plot above the road needs a longer ramp and retaining at the front, and a floor below road level counts as a basement. A lower plot must take a 6-inch pipe through its rear wall for rainwater from the higher plot until that plot is built, and where the levels differ by 5 ft or more the first owner to build puts up the RCC retaining wall with a stability certificate. Seepage treatment between plots at different levels has to be shown on the submission drawings.
On Avenir's published rates for DHA Islamabad in September 2026, a complete house at Standard specification plans at PKR 8,370 per sq ft of covered area, so a 5,800 sq ft house on the ground and first floors without a basement plans at about PKR 4.85 crore; a basement is priced separately. A basement, the plot's levels and the finishing specification move that figure most. Use the construction cost calculator for your own covered area.
The schedule printed in the byelaws, effective 1 December 2022, lists site plan and possession charges of Rs 7,500 per marla, drawing scrutiny at Rs 20 per sq ft of covered area for residential plots above 400 sq yd, a refundable security deposit of Rs 75,000 for plots of 500 sq yd and above, water and electricity connections at Rs 140,000 and Rs 160,000 per meter, and Rs 25,000 for the first owner's completion certificate. DHA revises the schedule from time to time, so confirm current dues with its Finance Directorate.
Approved drawings are valid for three months, so construction should start within that period or the drawings must be revalidated for a fee. The house must then be completed within three years of approval, after which DHA imposes a penalty. No excavation is allowed during the monsoon, and demarcation stops about a week before it begins, around 15 July.
DHA requires the drawings to be signed by an architect registered with PCATP and on DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi's panel and by a PEC-registered structural engineer on the panel, and construction to be carried out by a contractor registered with DHA, a requirement in force since 1 January 2022. Building your own house needs permission from DHA's Security Directorate. DHA publishes its current lists of registered architects and structural engineers on the affiliates page of its website.
Both. Avenir Developments designs Phase 6 houses, prepares the DHA submission drawings with the structural and MEP design, and delivers construction in Islamabad and Rawalpindi from its office at 101, Luxus Mall, Gulberg Greens. You can appoint Avenir for design only, for construction on approved drawings, or for Design + Build under one agreement. Scope and price are confirmed in writing before work starts.
Not yet. A certificate has no sector position, dimensions or site plan, so there is nothing to design on. You can settle your brief and budget, including the development charges noted on DHA's benchmark sheet: Rs 600,000 for certificates numbered 1 to 6180 and Rs 1,465,000 from 6181 onwards. Commission drawings once the plot is balloted and the site plan is issued.
It carries the gate, manhole and water point positions that the design starts from. If DHA has not issued it yet, send your allotment letter or certificate and we will tell you what to do first.
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