An abattoir is a slaughterhouse where animals are killed and butchered for their meat. Modern abattoirs require pens to hold animals humanely, a slaughter area, and facilities to process the meat into portions and products ready for sale. Proper planning is important - an abattoir should be at least 500 meters from dwellings and have good road access. The minimum site area is 1800 square meters to accommodate all required modules laid out in a rectangular format.

1. Abattoir

2. What is abattoir?
• Abattoir:a place where animals are killed for
their meat.
• Slaughterhouse: Any building or place used for
killing of animals where the flesh is intended
for human consumption.

3. Abattoirs need to be provided with modern pens
Function of a pens
•Feeding animals.
•Watering animals.
•Keeping animals calm.
Because of
•Influences the quality of the meat.
•Humane painless anaesthetization .
•More complete draining of the blood
•Turn ensures that the meat looks attractive
and can be preserved for longer.
Abattoirs Butcher
Ready to sell
portions, Cooked
meat products,
sausage.
The main process in the Abattoirs and slaughterhouse

4. Planning standards
• Distance from Urban Development: The abattoir should not
be located close to dwellings, schools, churches and other
public or commercial buildings (500m at least in some
cases) due to possible nuisance from noise, smell
congestion etc. Likely future commercial and residential
developments should also be taken into account
• Accessibility: The site should be accessible from a
permanent road to allow ready transport of both livestock
and meat.

5. The facilities are divided into a series of ‘modules’ which can be
combined as required to suit a particular location.

6. Designing standards and guidelines
• A minimum site area of 1800 square meters will be
required to accommodate all modules.
• The abattoir layout presented is based on a rectangular
site 30 meters by 60 meters.
• The required minimum height for processing is 3m.
• The slaughter area for large animals, which include wench,
should be 4.5m.
• The windows should be high enough to prevent children
from looking in and walls should be tiled to height > 2m.

7. Layout of large abattoirs
Refrence: Neufert page 387. figure 1.

8. Detailing the model
33%
67%
Total area 13168sqm
Built area Landscaped area
Blue: built area- Gray: Outdoor activities-
Brown: Railway- White: Not built area

9. Area Distribution
17%
15%
14%
7%
1%
15%
11%
3%
1%
1%
1%
8%
4% 3% 1%
area
Unloading bays
Market halls
Railway track
Stall

10. List of references
• Neufert 3rd edition, page 387.
• Design and construction of slaughterhouse,
guideline 2013, Department of agriculture (UK).
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/engli
sh/abattoir
• http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0034e/T0034E
01.htm

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