Building Code Flashcards
Rooms for habitation: Minimum Size _ and Least Horizontal Dimension
6 sqm & 2 m
Wheelchair seating space for a capacity of 4-50
2
Area at load centers where panel boards, breakers, switchgears and other electrical equipment are installed.
Electrical Room
Recommended minimum width for an accessible path of travel within an interior space according to BP 344.
1200 mm
THHN wire stands for __
Thermoplastic High Heat-Resistant, Nylon-Coated
NBCP: Minimum clear width of the exit doorway.
700 millimeters
Determine the group occupancy: Wholesale and retail stores, office buildings, drinking and dining establishments having an occupant load of less than one hundred persons, printing plants, police and fire stations, factories and workshops using not highly flammable or combustible materials and paint stores without bulk handlings.
Group E. Business and Mercantile
MIN. dimension of bath and toilet room.
0.90m
Group F Occupancy
Industrial
PD 1096
National Building Code of the Philippines
Any building or any portion thereof which is not an “apartment house”, “lodging house” or a “hotel” as defined in the Code, which contains one or two “dwelling units” or “guest rooms”, used, intended or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for living purposes.
Dwelling
An ENCLOSED means of egress connecting a required exit or exit court with a public way.
Exit Passageway
Type of construction: buildings shall be a wood construction
Type I
The purpose for which a building or portion thereof is used or intended to be used.
Occupancy
One of the intervals or spaces into which the building front is divided by columns, buttresses, or division walls.
Bay or Panel
NBCP: Min. width of every corridor or exit balcony
1.10m
A permanent roofed structure above a door attached to and supported by the building and projecting over a wall or sidewalk.
Canopy
NBCP: Min. width for private stairways serving an occupant load of less than 10
750mm
NBCP: Min. width for stairways serving an occupant load of more than 50
1.10 m
A document issued by BO to an owner/applicant to proceed with the construction, installation, addition, alteration, renovation, or other work activity of a project/building/structure or portions thereof after the accompanying principal plans, specifications and other pertinent documents with the duly notarized application are found satisfactory the Code and its IRR.
BUILDING PERMIT
Type of construction: buildings shall be of masonry and wood construction. Structural elements may be any of the materials permitted by this Code: Provided, that the building shall be one-hour fire-resistive throughout. Exterior walls shall be of incombustible fire-resistive construction.
Type III
Type of Construction: buildings shall be fire-resistive. The structural elements shall be of steel, iron, concrete, or masonry construction. Walls, ceilings, and permanent partitions shall be of incombustible fire-resistive construction
Type V
Trim and handrails shall not reduce the required width by more than __ .
100 millimeters
NBCP: typical stairs MAX. rise
200mm