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ALAFRIZ, LUTHER JOYDA p.
EBUENGA, ARNOLD JOHN
GARCIA,CAMILLE B.
LOPEGA,LARA JANE A.
REYES, JOHN PATRICK
SATIADA, JUSTINE
CLASSIFICATION AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
OF ALL BUILDINGS BY USE OR OCCUPANCY
SECTION 701. Occupancy Classified
a. Buildings proposed for construction shall be identified according to their use
or the character of its occupancy and shall be classified as follows:
i. Group A - Residential Dwellings
Group A Occupancies shall include:
✓ Division 1 - Residential building/structure for exclusive use of single family
occupants including school or company staff housing; single (nuclear) family
dwellings; churches or similar places of worship; church rectories; community
facilities and social centres; parks, playgrounds, pocket parks, parkways,
promenades and play lots; clubhouses and recreational uses such as golf
courses, tennis courts, basketball courts, swimming pools and similar uses
operated by the government or private individuals as membership organizations
for the benefit of their members, families, and guests and not operated primarily
for gain.
✓ Division 2 - Residential building for the exclusive use of non-leasing
occupants not exceeding 10 persons including single-attached or duplex or
town houses, each privately-owned; school dormitories (on campus); convents
and monasteries; military or police barracks/dormitories; pre-schools, elementary
and high schools, provided that they do not exceed 16 classrooms; outpatient
clinics, family planning clinics, lying-in clinics, diagnostics clinics, medical and
clinical laboratories; branch library and museums;steam/dry cleaning outlets;
party needs and accessories (leasing of tables and chairs, etc.).
ii. Group B - Residentials, Hotels and Apartments
Group B Occupancies shall be multiple dwelling units including boarding or
lodging houses, hotels, apartment buildings, row houses, convents, monasteries and
other similar building each of which accommodates more than 10 persons.
iii. Group C - Education and Recreation
Group C Occupancies shall be buildings used for school or day-care
purposes, involving assemblage for instruction, education, or recreation, and not
classified in Group I or in Division 1 and 2 or Group H Occupancies.
iv. Group D - Institutional
Group D Occupancies shall include:
✓ Division 1 - Mental hospitals, mental sanitaria, jails, prisons, reformatories, and
buildings were personal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained.
✓ Division 2 - Nurseries for full-time care of children under kindergarten age,
hospitals, sanitaria, nursing homes with non-ambulatory patients, and similar
buildings each accommodating more than five persons.
✓ Division 3 - Nursing homes for ambulatory patients, homes for children of
kindergarten age or over, each accommodating more than five persons:
Provided, that Group D Occupancies shall not include buildings used only for
private or family group dwelling purposes.
v. Group E - Business and Mercantile
Group E Occupancies shall include:
✓ Division 1 - Gasoline filling and service stations, storage garages and boat
storage structures where no work is done except exchange of parts and
maintenance requiring no open flame, welding, or the use of highly flammable
liquids.
✓ Division 2 - 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 handling's.
✓ Division 3 - Aircraft hangars and open parking garages where no repair work
is done except exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame,
welding or the use of highly flammable liquids.
vi. Group F - Industrial
Group F Occupancies shall include: ice plants, power plants, pumping plants,
cold storage, and creameries, factories and workshops using incombustible and
non-explosive materials, and storage and sales rooms for incombustible and
non-explosive materials.
vii. Group G - Storage and Hazardous
Groups G Occupancies shall include:
✓ Division 1 - Storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable material.
✓ Division 2 - Storage and handling of flammable materials, dry cleaning plants
using flammable liquids; paint stores with bulk handling, paint shops and spray
painting rooms.
✓ Division 3 - Wood working establishments, planning mills and box factories,
shops, factories where loose combustible fibers or dust are manufactured,
processed or generated; warehouses where highly combustible materials is
stored.
✓ Division 4 - Repair garages.
✓ Division 5 - Aircraft repair hangars.
viii. Group H - Assembly Other Than Group I
Group H Occupancies shall include:
✓ Division 1 - Any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of less
than 1000 in the building.
✓ Division 2 - Any assembly building without stage and having an occupant load of
300 or more in the building.
✓ Division 3 - Any assembly building without a stage and having an occupant load
of less than 300 in the building.
✓ Division 4 - Stadia, reviewing stands, amusement park structures not included
within Group I or in Division 1, 2, and 3 of this Group.
ix. Group I - Assembly Occupant Load 1000 or More
Group I Occupancies shall be any assembly building with a stage and an
occupant load of 1000 or more in the building.
x. Group J - Accessory
Group J Occupancies shall include:
✓ Division 1 - Agricultural structures.
✓ Division 2 - Private garages, carports, fences over 1.80 meters high, tanks,
swimming pools and towers.
✓ Division 3 - Stages, platforms, pelota, tennis, badminton or basketball courts,
tombs, mausoleums, niches, aviaries, aquariums, zoo structures, banks and
record vaults.
Other sub groupings or divisions within Groups A to J may be determined by the
Secretary. Any other occupancy not mentioned specifically in this Section, or about
which there is any question, shall be included in the Group which it most nearly
resembles based on the existing or proposed life and fire hazard.
SECTION 702. Change in Use
No change shall be made in the character of occupancy or use of any building
which would place the building in a different division of the same group of occupancy
or in a different group of occupancies, unless such building is made to comply with
the requirements of the Code for such division or group of occupancy. The character
of occupancy of existing buildings may be changed subject to the approval of the
Building Official and the building may be occupied for purposes set forth in other
Groups: Provided the new or proposed use is less hazardous, based on life and fire
risk, than the existing use.
SECTION 703. Mixed Occupancy
1. General Requirements
When a building is of mixed occupancy or used for more than one occupancy, the
whole building shall be subject to the most restrictive requirement pertaining to any of
the type of occupancy found therein except in the following:
a. When a one-storey building houses more than one occupancy, each portion of
the building shall conform to the requirement of the particular occupancy housed
therein and;
b. Where minor accessory uses do not occupy more than 10% of the area of any
floor or a building, nor more than 10% of the basic area permitted in the occupancy
requirements, in which case, the major use of the building shall determine the
occupancy classification.
2. Forms of Occupancy Separation
Occupancy separations shall be vertical or horizontal or both, or when necessary,
of such other forms as may be required to afford a complete separation between
the various occupancy divisions in the building.
3. Types of Occupancy Separation
Occupancy separation shall be classified as “One-Hour Fire-Resistive”,
“Two-Hour Fire-Resistive”, “Three-Hour Fire-Resistive” and “Four-Hour
Fire-Resistive.”
a. A “One-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation” shall be of not less than
one-hour fire-resistive construction. All openings in such separation shall be
protected by a fire-assembly having a one-hour fire-resistive rating.
b. A “Two-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation” shall be of not less than
two-hour fire-resistive construction. All openings in such separation shall be
protected by a fire assembly having a two-hour fire-resistive rating.
c. A “Three-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation” shall be of not less than
three-hour fire-resistive construction. All openings in walls forming such
separation shall be protected by a fire assembly having a three-hour fire-resistive
rating. The total width of all openings in any three-hour fire-resistive occupancy
separation wall in any one-storey shall not exceed 25% of the length of the wall in
that storey and no single opening shall have an area greater than 10.00 sq. meters.
All openings in floors forming a “Three-Hour Fire Resistive Occupancy Separation”
shall be protected by vertical enclosures extending above and below such openings.
The walls of such vertical enclosures shall be of not less than two-hour fire-resistive
construction, and all openings therein shall be protected by a fire assembly having a
three-hour fire-resistive rating.
d. A “Four-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation” shall have no openings
therein and shall be of not less than four-hour fire resistive construction.
4. Fire Rating for Occupancy Separation
Occupancy Separations shall be provided between groups, sub groupings, or
divisions of occupancies. The Secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations for
appropriate occupancy separations in buildings of mixed occupancy; Provided, that,
where any occupancy separation is required, the minimum shall be a “One-Hour
Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation”; and where the occupancy separation is
horizontal, structural members supporting the separation shall be protected by an
equivalent fire-resistive construction.
SECTION 704. Location on Property
1. General
a. No building shall be constructed unless it adjoins or has direct access to a public
space, yard or street on at least one of its sides. b. For the purpose of this Section,
the centreline of an adjoining street or alley shall be considered an adjacent property
line.
c. Eaves over required windows shall not be less than 750 millimetres from the side
and rear property lines.
2. Fire Resistance of Walls
Exterior walls shall have fire resistance and opening protection in accordance
with the requirements set forth by the Secretary. Projections beyond the exterior wall
shall not exceed beyond a point one-third the distance from an assumed vertical
plane located where the fire-resistive protection of openings is first required to the
location on property whichever is the least restrictive. Distance shall be measured at
right angles from the property line. When openings in exterior walls are required to be
protected due to distance from property line, the sum of the areas of such openings
in any storey shall not exceed 50% of the total area of the wall in that storey.
3. Buildings on Same Property and Buildings Containing Courts
For the purpose of determining the required wall and opening protection, buildings on
the same property and court walls shall be assumed to have a property line between
them. When a new building is to be erected on the same property with an existing
building, the assumed property line from the existing building shall be the distance to
the property line for each occupancy as set forth by the Secretary; Provided, that two
or more buildings on the same property may be considered as one building if the
aggregate area of such building is within the limits of allowable floor areas for a single
building, and when the buildings so considered, house different occupancies or are of
different types of construction, the area shall be that allowed for the most restrictive
occupancy or construction.
