This standard specifies the general layout of the bank vaults and the relevant buildings, the selection of vault site, the building standards and the safety and protection system standards for the main vault room and accessory supporting buildings, etc. This standard is applicable to the construction and renovation design of various vaults.
2 Definitions
2.1 Bank vaults
They are the issuance vaults of the Central Bank and the cash commercial vaults of the main existing commercial banks.
2.2 Issuance vaults
They are the vaults used for preserving the to-be-issued currency--the issued funds and gold reserves of the State, they are one important constituent part of the Central Bank and the primary facility to perform such functions of the Central Bank as the issuance, withdrawal and destruction of currency. The issuance vaults are divided into general vaults, branch vaults, central sub vaults and sub vaults of four grades.
2.3 Commercial vaults
They are the vault rooms set in the banks for transacting the routine cash basis business, and the cash reserved in them is the revolving fund for the cash basis of financial institutions and is one integral part of the working fund.
2.4 Vault passway
It refers to a specific area with the vault room as the center and enclosed by the periphery surrounding walls of the vault room in and out area and the routine paper currency, gold and silver treatment and operation areas, etc.
2.5 Vault doors
They are the dedicated doors to open the passage leading in and out of the bank vaults, and a set of doors include the vault doors, grill gates and emergency doors.
2.6 Grill gates
They are located at the inner side of the vault door for the purpose of observing, ventilation and blocking the irrelevant personnel from entering into the vault when the vault door is opened. And they are the component part of the vault doors.
2.7 Emergency doors
They are the standby small scale vault doors when the vault doors are malfunctioning, and their quality criteria are same as the vault doors.
2.8 Combination locks
They are the dedicated locks of the banks that are specially made and meet the safety standard.
3 Issuance Vaults
3.1 Vault construction principle
The issuance vault building shall be able to meet the requirements on applicability, safety and scientificity, and shall carry out the principle of the combination of bank and vaults (excluding the separately constructed large-scale issuance vaults); the overall planning of the issuance vault building shall be conducted by giving priority to the vault room, the vault room shall be strictly separated from the auxiliary room supporting buildings, the vault passway shall be strictly separated from the office area, living area and security area, and the building density and building volume shall be economic and rational.
3.2 General layout
3.2.1 The layout of the nationwide and regional issuance vaults shall be planned reasonably based on such factors as economy, paper money printing, traffic and administration, and the interests shall be centralized.
3.2.2 The general plan layout of the main vault room with the subsidiary and auxiliary rooms shall use the land rationally, and overall planning shall be conducted with consideration of such aspects as business operation, administrative management, security guard, building daylighting, environmental protection and greening so as to create an optimal working environment. The overall design of the vault room must leave space for the future development.
3.3 Vault site selection
The topographic, geological and hydrological conditions, the floor area and the surrounding environment and traffic conditions shall meet the construction requirements.
3.3.1 Landform: the landform shall be as level as possible, be convenient for surface drainage and be favorable for the vault in and out operations.
3.3.2 Hydrogeology: the underground water level shall be lower than the depth of the underground pipe network, and the areas, such as strong seismic area, fault zone, landslide area, mudrock flow area and the area may be flooded, must not be selected for constructing the vaults.
3.3.3 Traffic: The selection of the vault site must take the adjacent highways, railway yards, water transportation docks, airports and the possible rail or line connecting conditions into account.
