Terms from PD 1096 Flashcards
A form of semi-permanent or permanent structure constructed along a property line, usually in masonry or reinforced concrete or other fire rated material where absolutely no form of permitted opening, whether temporary/permanent, operable/non-operable. packaged; nor shall it be placed used by the public.
Abutment
A building subordinate to the main building on the same lot and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the main building such as servants quarters, garage, pump house, laundry, etc.
Accessory Building
A sign that directs attention to a business profession, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered at a place other than where the business, profession etc. is located. An off-premise sign.
Advertising Sign
A define are on a land or water intended to be used either wholly or in a parts for the arrival, departure or surface movement of aircraft.
Aerodrome
A building designed and constructed to house farm implements, hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other horticultural products. This structure shall not be a place of human habitation or a place of employment where agricultural products are processed, treated or
Agricultural Building
The process of treating air so as to contro; simultaneously its temperature, humidity and maintain cleanliness and distribution to meet at the requirements of the conditioned space.
Air Conditioning (AC)
Any public space or thoroughfare which has been dedicated or deeded to the public or for public use as a passageway with a width of not more than 3 meters.
Alley
Any change, addition, or modification in construction or occupancy.
Alter or Alteration
A room or suite of two or more rooms, designed and intended for, or occupied by one family for living, sleeping, and cooking purposes.
Apartment
Any building or portion thereof, which is designed, built, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or which is occupied as the home or residence of three or more families living independently of each other and doing their own cooking in the building, and shall include flats and apartments.
Apartment House
Any portion of a building above the first floor projecting over the sidewalk beyond the first storey wall used as protection for pedestrians against rain or sun.
Arcade
Any semi-enclosed or enclosed and usable or habitable building projection constructed in the airspace above the arcade and therefore utilizing the air rights above the RROW, in case the arcade is part of the RROW.
Arcade Structure
A building or a portion of a building used for the gathering together of fifty or more persons for such purposes as deliberation, workshop, entertainment, amusement, or awaiting transportation or of a hundred or more persons in drinking and dining establishments.
Assembly Building or Hall
Any storey situated wholly or partly in a roof, so designed, arranged, or built as to be used for business, storage, or habitation.
Attic Storey
An engineered system to detect automatically and suppress fire through fixed spring piping and nozzles using dry or wet chemical clean or halogenated extinguishing agents or an automatic sprinkler system.
Automatic Fire Suppression System
A movable shelter supported entirely from the exterior wall of a building and of a type which can be retracted, folded, or collapsed against the face of a supporting building.
Awning
The surface or assembly to which veneer is attached.
Backing
A portion of the seating space of an assembly room, the lowest part of which is raise 1.20 meters or more above the level of the main floor.
Balcony
A landing or porch projecting from the wall of a building, and which serves as a required means of egress. The long size shall be at least fifty percent open, and the open area above the guardrail shall be so distributed as to prevent the accumulation of smoke or toxic gases.
Balcony Exterior Exit
A stationary open hearth or brazier, either fuel-fired or electric, used for floor preparation.
Barbecue
A portion of a building between floor and ceiling which is partly below and partly above grade but so located that the vertical distance from grade to the floor is less than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling.
Basement Level
One of the intervals or spaces into which the building front is divided by columns, buttresses, or division walls.
Bay or Panel
A panel for posting bills or poster.
Billboard
A house with five or more sleeping rooms where the boarders are provided with lodging, and meals for fixed sum paid by the month, or week, in accordance with previous arrangement.
Boarding House
A closed vessel intended for use in heating or for application of heat to generate steam or other vapor.
Boiler
The remaining space in a lot after deducting the required minimum open spaces.
Buildable Area
A three-dimensional physical development erected within a lot or property or any combination of or any of all its three different levels.
Building
The vertical distance from the established grade elevation to the highest point of the roof.
Building Height
From 1-5 storeys in height, 3-14 meters above established grade.
Low-rise
From 6-15 storey in height, 18-45 meters above the established grade.
Medium-Rise
From 16 storeys or taller in height, 48 meters above established grade.
High-Rise
Its general lineal dimensions usually measured in the direction of the bearing wall for girders.
Building Length
The line formed by the intersection of the outer space of the enclosing wall of the building and the surface of the ground.
Building Line
Its shortest linear dimensions usually measured in the direction of the floor, beams, or joints.
Building Width
An identification or on-premise sign of a business location.
Business Sign
A permanent roofed structure above a door attache to and supported by the building and projecting over a wall or sidewalk.
Canopy
The portion of a building between floor and ceiling which is wholly or partly below grade and so located that the vertical distance from grade to the floor below is equal to or greater than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling; with required room temperature for wines and liquors.
Cellar
Public or private land used for the burial of the dead and other uses dedicated for cemetery purposes.
Cemetery
The pipe which connects a flue burning appliance to a chimney.
Chimney Connector
The lining materials of fire clay or other approved material.
Chimney Liner
The chimney of solid masonry units bricks, stones, listed hollow unit masonry units, or reinforced concrete.
Chimney Masonry
A niche in a tomb or columbarium to accommodate an urn containing the ashes of a cremated body.
Cinerarium
A sepulcher with niches for cinerary remains.
Columbarium
A mechanical device used in refrigeration system for the purpose of increasing the pressure upon the refrigerant.
Compressor
A vessel or arrangement of pipes or tubing in which vaporized refrigerant is liquified by the removal of the heat.
Condenser
A hollow or solid concrete masonry unit made from portland cement and suitable aggregates such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, bituminous or anthracite cinders, burned clay, pumice, volcanic scoria, air cooled or expanded blast furnace slags.
Concrete Block
The material or units used to form a cap of finish on top of a wall, pier, or pilaster.
Coping
The non-ferrous metal, or any metal having an unbroken surface of non-ferrous metal, or steel with not less than 10 percent chromium or with less than 0.20 percent copper.
Corrosion Resistant
Materials that are inherently rust-resistant or materials to which an approved rust-resistive coating has been applied either before or after forming or fabrication.
Corrosion Resistant Material
A continuous layer of masonry unit.
Course
An occupied space between building lines and lot lines other than a yard; free, open, and unobstructed by appendages from the ground upward.
Court
A court bounded on all sides by building lines.
Inner Court
A court bounded on three sides by building lines.
Open Court
A court bounded on two opposite side by building lines.
Through Court
A portion of the yard for which the permitted limit of paving/hardscaping shall not exceed 50% of the area of the yard.
Courtyard
Any designated place duly authorized by law to cremate dead persons.
Crematorium
A set of interlacing regulations concerning the physical utilization of a lot and likewise governing the planning/design of spaces and/or the use or occupancy of a building structure to be introduced on a lot.
Development Controls
An area which will accommodate a number of persons equal to the total capacity of the stand and building it serves.
Dispersal Area
Any material, device or structure that is arranged intended, designed or used as an advertisement or directory that includes a sign, sign screen, billboard or advertising device of any kind.
Display Sign
Any movable structure, table showcase, cabinet and the like where foods or periodicals are displayed.
Display Stand
The entire area enclosed by the extreme limits or perimeter of a sign.
Display Surface
That portion of a building abutting the sidewalk open to public view protected by grilles, screens or transparent materials for display of goods.
Display Window
A dwelling intended for the use and occupancy by the family of the owner only. It is constructed of native materials which does not exceed P 15,000.
Dwelling Indigenous Family
One or more habitable rooms which are occupied or which are intended or designated to be occupied by one family with facilities for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating.
Dwelling Unit
A passageway made of sheet metal for conveying air or other gasses at low pressure.
Duct
A hoisting mechanism design to materials and other loads such as food, laundry etc. equipped with a car.
Dumbwaiter
A kind of public open space that must be absolutely free of all forms of physical obstruction.
Easement
Any sign illuminated by incandescent or fluorescent lamps or luminous tubes as part of the sign proper.
Electrical Sign
A hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in vertical direction.
Elevator
That portion of a floor, balcony or platform for loading or discharging passengers or freight to or from the elevator.
Elevator Landing
Steel wire ropes attached to the car frame or passing around sheaves attached to the car frame.
Elevator Wire Ropes
A power driven, inclined, continuous stairway for raising or lowering passengers.
Escalator
The point of reference on the highest adjoining natural grade as established by the proper government authority.
Established Grade Elevation
A continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public way.
Exit
A yard or court providing egress to a public way for one or more required exits.
Exit Court
A means of passage from one building into another building occupied by the same tenant through a separation wall having a minimum fire resistance of one-hour.
Exit Horizontal
An enclosed means of egress connecting a required exit or exit court with a public way.
Exit Passageway
Any masonry, forming an integral part of a wall used as a finished surface.
Facing
The assembly of a fire door, fire window and fire damper including all required hardware, anchorage, frames and sills.
Fire Assembly
A fire assembly which may remain in open position and which will close automatically if subjected to increase in temperature and products of combustion other than heat.
Fire Assembly Self Closing
A reinforced masonry or reinforced concrete separator with appropriate fire-resistive rating and shall be positioned between dwelling units.
Firewall
A refractory brick.
Firebrick
A finely ground clay used as a plasticizer for masonry mortars; varies widely in physical properties.
Fireclay
A hearth and fire chamber or similarly prepared place in which a fire may be made and which is built in conjunction with a chimney.
Fireplace
Lumber of plywood impregnated with chemicals and when tested in accordance with accepted fire standards for a period of 30 minutes shall have a flame-spread of not over 25 and show no evidence of progressive combustion.
Fire Retardant Treated Wood
The floor of which is at or above the level of the sidewalk or adjoining ground, the remaining storeys being numbered in regular succession upward.
First Storey
The area included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusive of vent shafts and courts.
Floor Area
The vertical measurement between the uppermost surfaces of two successive floors of a proposed building or structure.
Floor to Floor Height
The gross expanse of a floor measured from the outermost edges of floor slabs.
Floor Plate
That portion of the foundation of a structure which spreads and transmits loads directly to the soil or the pile.
Footing
All the portions of the building or structure below the footing, the earth upon which the structure rests.
Foundation
Loading/unloading and ancillary spaces that are located outside the roadway.
Freight Loading or Unloading Space
The part of the Total Open Space within Lot (TOSL) created by setback along RROW that cannot be used as parking space and a very temporary nature and hard and soft landscaping may be introduced for the front yard.
Front Yard
The side of lot on which the main pedestrian and vehicular access into the property shall be situated.
Front of Lot
A building or portion thereof in which a motor vehicle containing gasoline, distillate, or other volative, flammable liquid in its tank, is stored, repaired, or kept.
Garage
A garage where automobiles and other motor vehicle are housed, cared for, equipped, repaired or kept for remuneration, hire, or sale.
Garage Commercial
A structure of one or more tiers in height which is at least 50 percent open on two or more sides and is used exclusively for the parking or storage of passenger motor vehicles having a capacity of not more than nine persons per vehicle.
Garage Open Parking
A building or portion of a building in which only motor vehicles used by the tenants of the building or buildings on the premises are stored or kept.
Garage Private
A horizontal structural piece which supports in end of the floor beams or joists or walls over opening.
Girder
The lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground.
Grade
The total floor space within the perimeter of the permanent external building walls inclusive of main and auxiliary building.
Gross Floor Area
The storey at or near the level of the grade.
Ground Floor
A sign with its support resting on the ground.
Ground Sign
Any room meeting the requirements of this Code for sleeping, living, cooking, or dining purposes, excluding such enclosed spaces as closets, pantries, bath or toilet room, service rooms, connecting corridors, laundries, unfinished attics, storage, space cellars, utility rooms, and similar spaces.
Habitable Room
A corridor or passageway used in common by all the occupants within a building.
Hall Common
A hall which includes the stair, stair landings, and those portions of the common halls through which it is necessary to pass in going between the entrance floor and the room.
Hall, Stairs
An area of land or water or a structural surface intended for use, the landing and take off helicopters including refueling and maintenance repairs.
Heliport
The same as heliport except that no refueling, maintenance repairs, or storage of helicopters is permitted.
Helistop
An apparatus for raising or lowering a load by use of force, but does not include a car or platform.
Hoist
An opening through a building for the travel of elevators, dumbwaiters etc.
Hoistway
A building or a part thereof with rooms occupied or intended to be occupied for hire as temporary aboding place of individuals with a general kitchen and public dining room service, but no provision for cooking in any individual suite or room.
Hotel
An apartment house which may furnish dining room service and other services for the exclusive use of its tenants.
Hotel Apartment
The percentage of any allowable floor area of any paved, tiled or hardscaped surface at the ground.
Impervious Surface Area
A plaque or sticker to be painted on either the top or bottom of a sign identifying the company to whom the structure belongs.
Imprint
The horizontal distance between the outermost building of a structure line of a lower floor that of a higher floor.
Incremental Setback
When referred to as structural material, means brick, concrete,steel etc. used either singly or in combination as fire resisting material.
Incombustible Material
A covering of not less than two thickness of roofing felt and a good coat of tar and gravel or tin, corrugated iron or other approved fire-resisting material with standing seam of lap joint.
Incombustible Roofing
The beam or girder placed over an opening in a wall, which supports the wall construction above.
Lintel
The weight of the permanent portions of a building.
Load, Dead
That load cased by winds, earthquakes, or other dynamic forces.
Load, Lateral
The weight of the contents of a building or structure; it includes all loads except dead and lateral.
Load, Live
The total number of persons that may occupy a building or portion thereof at any one time.
Load, Occupant
A parcel of land on which a principal building and its accessories are placed.
Lot
A lot situated at the junction of two or more streets forming an angle.
Lot, Corner
The front boundary line of a lot bordering on the street.
Lot, Front
A lot fronting on one street of public alley and the remaining sides bounded by lot lines.
Lot, Inside
The line of demarcation between either public and private property.
Lot Line
A lot bounded on all sides by street lines.
Lot, Open
A form of construction composed of stone, brick, concrete etc. other similar building units of material or combination of these material laid up unit and set in mortar.
Masonry
Masonry of solid units built without hollow spaces.
Masonry, Solid
Brick, block etc. or other similar building unit or combination, made to be bounded together by a cementation agent.
Masonry Unit
Large, stately tomb to accommodate one or more interments, usually with provisions of an ossuary or cinerarium.
Mausoleum
A monument, private mausoleum or tomb for family or individual use.
Memorial
A cemetery with well kept landscaped lawns and wide roadways provided with systematic supervision and where park-like atmosphere is an outstanding quality.
Memorial Park
An partial intermediate floor in any storey or room having an area not more than one-half of the room space.
Mezzanine or Mezzanine Floor
A tombstone of concrete, marble or other durable stone extending above the surface of the ground.
Monument
A type of horizontal passenger-carrying device, with its surface remaining parallel to its direction of motion.
Moving Ramp/Walkway
A building which does not conform with the regulations of the district where it is situated.
Non-Conforming Building
The use of a building or land or any portion of such building or land which does not conform with the use and regulation of the zone where it is situated.
Non-Conforming Use
The purpose for which a building is used or intended to be used.
Occupancy
Any person, company, or corporation owning the property.
Owner
A bar which extends across at least one-half the width of each door leaf, which will open the door if subjected to pressure.
Panic Hardware
An interior subdividing wall.
Partition
A portion of the wall which projects on one or both sides and acts as a vertical beam a column or both.
Pilaster
An insolated mass of masonry forming support for arches, columns and similar structural parts.
Pier
Plastic materials which have a flame spread rating of 225 or less.
Plastics, Approved
A partially enclosed portion of an assembly room the ceiling of which is not more than 1.50 meters above the proscenium opening and which is designed or used for the presentation of plays.
Platform, Enclosed
A sign fastened to or suspended form a building.
Projecting Sign
Any structurally attached portion of a building that is outside its outermost walls.
Projection
Permanent edifices owned by the government.
Public Buildings/Structure
A parcel of land unobstructed from the ground to the sky.
Public Way
A physical development within a lot or property that is under utilized or unsafe for habitation use or within other lots/properties that are similarly situated.
Redevelopment
The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building which shall not apply to any change of construction.
Repair
A kind of public open space for the continuous flow of pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
Road-Right-of-Way
Road-Right-of-Way
RROW
The portion or component of the RROW on which motor vehicles are allowed to pass.
Roadway
Other term for roadway.
Carriageway
A sign installed on roof or roof decks.
Roof Sign
The horizontal distance measured 90 degrees from the outermost surface of the building.
Setback
A store window which goods are displayed.
Show Window
An assembly made of incombustible material installed on openings to prevent the spread of fire.
Shutter
The portion on each side of the RROW reserved for the exclusive use of pedestrians.
Sidewalk
The line of view from any fixed or moving station point within a building.
Sight Line
Any movable structure on which a sign is mounted or supported.
Sign Stand
Any means allowable by the Code to support installation of signs which include its frame, anchorages and fasteners.
Sign Structure
Blighted area where the values of real estate is being deteriorated because of unsanitary condition of the building within the area.
Slum
The wall between the bottom of the window will and the ground.
Socalo, Masonry
The underside of a beam lintel, or reveal.
Soffit
Any structure designed and intended for the enclosure, shelter, or protection of any horse, carabao, or other cattle.
Stable
A stable wherein the animals kept are for business, racing or breeding purposes.
Stable, Commercial
A partially enclosed portion of an assembly building which is designed or used for the representation of plays.
Stage
Constituted by two or more stairway.
Stairway
A stairway serving one tenant only.
Stairway, Private
That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost storey shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above.
Storey
The perpendicular distance from top to top of two successive of floors.
Storey, Height of
The framing system including the columns and girders having direct connections to the columns and all other member which are essential to the stability of the building as a whole.
Structural Frame
Any portion of the building above the first floor projecting over the sidewalk.
Structure Over Arcade
The vertical supports, such as posts or stanchions, as used in indigenous or traditional type of construction. These may be freestanding as stilts or integrated into the wall structure.
Suportales
All surfaces of walls, ceilings, floors and other similar surfaces exposed to the weather.
Surface, Weather-Exposed
A sign of cloth or other light and/or combustible material with or without frame such as streamer and the like, installed for a limited number of time.
Temporary Sign
The total floor space within the main and auxiliary buildings and all other enclose support areas.
Total Gross Floor Area
The total surface area of a lot on which a proposed building is to be erected.
Total Lot Area
The total open space required for each type of use or occupancy for a given lot.
Total Open Space within Lot
The fully enclosed component of a building situated between the podium component and the roof of the buildings. It shall not be higher than five times.
Tower
A cable made up of electric conductors which provides electrical connection between an elevator or dumbwaiter car and a fixed outlet in the hoistway.
Travelling Cable
The regularly replicated floor plan usually for lower component of a proposed building.
Typical Floor
The portion of the lot that shall remain unpaved and reserved for softscaping planting.
Unpaved Surface Area
Any surface or underground construction covered on top, or any fireproof construction intended for the storage of valuables.
Vault
A non-structural facing of brick, concrete and the like attached to a backing or structural components of a building.
Veneer
A permitted minimal opening along a specified vertical portion of a firewall.
Vent Well
Process of supplying or removing air by natural or mechanical means to or from any space.
Ventilation
Shall mean stairs, fire escapes, shafts and the like and their enclosing walls and their enclosed areas.
Vertical Penetrations
The visually unobstructed width. depth and height of all available sight lines running through and along RROW.
View Corridor
A wall that supports any load other than its weight.
Wall, Bearing
A wall that supports any load other than its own weight.
Wall, Bearing
The enclosing walls of an iron or steel framework or the non bearing portion of an enclosing wall between piers.
Wall, Curtain
A wall without openings.
Wall, Dead
Any wall or element of a wall which defines exterior boundaries.
Wall, Exterior
That portion of an enclosing wall below the first tier of floor joists.
Wall, Foundation
A wall which supports no load other than its weight.
Wall, Nonbearing
That part of any wall entirely above the roof line.
Wall, Parapet
A wall separating two or more building.
Wall, Party
A sign painted or attached on a building where the display surface of which is parallel to the wall surface.
Wall Sign
An opening through a wall of a building to the outside.
Window
A window projecting out to the streets supported by corbels.
Window, Oriel
Horizontal strands of taunted wire attached to the surfaces of vertical wood supports.
Wire Backing
