”ONE MED RESIDENCES”  Labor Room- If

combined, a reasonable
BUILDING CLASSIFICATION
minimum size for a
Hospital Level 1 – Group D combined labor and
Division 2 delivery room could be
around 15-20 square
Building Requirements:
meters (approximately
 Bed capacity: 25 to 75 beds 161-215 square feet).
 Operating Room: no less  Preparation Room-6-8
than 400 square feet. 600 square meters
square feet (55.7 square (approximately 65-86
meters) square feet).
 Recovery Room:  Record’s Office
 Patient beds easy
access from all sides  Isolation Facilities
and have storage space  At a minimum, a Level
for staff. 1 Hospital should have
 Recovery room beds one or two
require at least 9 sqm designated isolation
per bed. rooms.
 Hospital Level 1 (25  These rooms are
beds or less):A typically single-bed
reasonable starting rooms with:
point might be 2-4  Private bathroom: To
recovery beds. minimize the risk of
 Maternity Facilities: cross-contamination.
 Delivery Room- 12-15  Separate ventilation: To
square meters control the spread of
(approximately 130- airborne pathogens.
160 square feet).  Negative pressure:
40 square feet (3.7 Ideally, the room
square meters) shall be should have slightly
provided for infant lower air pressure than
space. the surrounding areas,
 Postpartum Room- 10- preventing the spread
12 square meters of contaminants
(approximately 107- outside the room.
129 square feet).  10-12 square meters
 Nursery- 8-10 square (approximately 107-
meters (approximately 129 square feet).
86-107 square feet).
 Dental Section
 Dental Operatory: A Option 1
small, dedicated room
with:Dental chair Basic
dental equipment (e.g.,
handpieces, suction,
curing light)
 8.36/dental chair
 Dimensions: 10’-5”
o Dimensions: 10’- wide x 14’-6” deep to
5” wide x 12’-0” finished face of wall
deep to finished surface
face of wall
surface
 dimension of 3 feet
(914 mm) shall be
provided on three sides
of the table /stretcher.
A handwashing station
shall be provided within
the exam room.
 Clinical Laboratory- 8-12
square meters
(approximately 86-129
square feet).
 Specimen Receiving
Area
Option 2  Work Area
 Sterilization area  Reagent Storage Area
 Waiting Area: A small  Pharmacy-Pharmacy 15.00
waiting area for area square meters
patients.  Dispensing Area
 Storage Space: For  Storage Area
dental supplies and  Preparation Area
equipment.  Record’s Area
 Personnel: Likely  Staff Area
staffed by a dentist
who may also have
other responsibilities Hospital Level 1 Users
within the hospital.  Staffs
 Blood Station  Medical Students
 Imaging Facility  Patients
 X-ray Room-X-Ray  Local Patients
Room not equipped  Condo Residents
with table ( 2.5m x 3m)  Interns
7.5 X-Ray Room with  Visitor’s
stationary patient table
14.0 (3.5m x 4.0m)
 Ultrasound-Rooms used
for ultrasound
examination/treatment
shall have a minimum
clear floor area of 120
square feet (11.15 m STAFFING PATTERN
2). Clearances. A
LEVEL 1 HOSPITAL: 1:25 BEDS
minimum clear
 A. Office of the Chief of  Radiologic Technologist
Hospital  Radiologic Technologist
 Administrative Aide
 Chief of Hospital II
 Administrative Assistant II 6. Dental
 Computer Maintenance
 Dentist
Technologist I
 Dental Aide
B. Medical Service
7. Health Information
1. Outpatient Unit Management
 Medical Officer
 Administrative Officer
 Health Education and
 Data Controller
Promotion Officer
 Psychologist a. Admitting/Information
 Nurse
 Administrative Assistant (4)
 Nursing Attendant
8. Nutrition and Dietetics

2. Emergency Room  Nutritionist-Dietitian

 Medical Officer IV 23  Cook (2)
 Nurse (3)  Administrative Aide
 Nursing Attendant 9. Pharmacy
 Pharmacist I
3. Clinical Units  Pharmacist II
 Medical Specialist (5)  Administrative Aide
 Medical Officer 10. Medical Social Work
 Medical Officer (5)
 Social Welfare Officer
 Social Welfare Assistant
4. Clinical Laboratory
 Medical Specialist C. Nursing Service
 Medical Technologist 1. Office of the Nurse
 Medical Technologist (2) Supervisor
 Laboratory Technician
 Nurse
a. Blood Station
 Medical Technologist (2) 2. Clinical Nursing Units
 Laboratory Technician
 Nurse III
5.Radiology  Nurse II (2)
 Medical Specialist  Nurse I (6)
  Nursing Attendant (4)  Administrative Aide IV
 Administrative Aide III
3. Operating Room
 Nurse II (4)
 Nursing Attendant II (2) 5. Housekeeping/Laundry
 Laundry Worker II
 Seamstress
4. Recovery Room
6. Accounting
 Nurse II (4)
 Nursing Attendant II (2)  Accountant II
 Administrative Assistant II
5. Isolation Room
a. Billing and Claims
 Nurse II (4)
 Administrative Officer II
6. Delivery Room
 Administrative Assistant II
 Nurse II (4)
7. Cash Operations
 Midwife I (4)
 Nursing Attendant II  Administrative Officer I
 Administrative Assistant II
D. Hospital Operations and
Patient Support Service 8. Security ( to be contracted
out)
1. Office of the Administrative
Officer TOTAL STAFF 133
 Administrative Officer V
 Administrative Assistant I
2. Human Resource
Management
 Administrative Officer III
 Administrative Assistant II
3. Procurement, Property and
Supply
 Administrative Officer III
 Administrative Aide VI
4. Engineering and Facilities
Management
 Engineer II
 Medical Equipment
Technician III (2)
Laws and Regulations to
be implemented on
Designing a Level 1
Hospital
According to the Department of area (GFA); and provide truck
Health's Guidelines in the Planning maneuvering area outside of the
and Design of a Hospital and other RROW (within property or lot lines
Health Facilities when designing a only
Hospital the designer must be
• The Minimum Ceiling Height to
aware of the Architectural Practices
meet the Requirements for Air
standards to meet the required
Changes for Hospital rooms is a
functional programs, and to apply
minimum of 0.29 and maximum
the applicable laws and codes as
of 0.43 cubic meter per person
part of the Hospital's Professional
and if the air changes per hour
Practice. Wherein we must refer to
reaches the a total of 3 then the
the following:
ceiling height must be 2.40
1. P. D. 1096 - National Building meters, if it reaches 2 then the
Code of the Philippines and Its required ceiling height is 3.00
Implementing Rules and meters, if it reaches 1-1/2 the
Regulations required ceiling height is 3.70
meters, if it reaches 1 then the
This code must be considered or
required ceiling height is 4.90,
followed to provide the Hospital
then lastly if it reaches 3% then the
with sustainable and proper
Celling height must be 6.10
structural measurements based on
meters. These are the standards
Occupant loads to avoid unused
to attain proper air flow within the
spaces and unnecessary spaces
structure.
since the designer has to utilize the
limited lot area provided. • The General Requirements for
Occupant Loads and Exits (*In all
• The Minimum Required Parking
occupancies, floors above the first
Slot, Parking Area and Loading
(1st) storey having an occupant
Space Requirements for a Public
load of more than ten (10) shall
Hospital is One (1) off-street
have at least two (2) exits) and for
cum on-site car parking slot for
Hospitals the Minimum of Two (2)
every twenty five (25) beds;
Exits Other than Elevators are
and one (1) off-RROW (or offstreet)
Required Where Number of
passenger loading space that can
Occupants is Over 5.
accommodate two (2) queued
jeepney/shuttle slots; provide at • Emergency Power systems For
least one (1) loading slot for hospitals, the transition time to
articulated truck or vehicle (a 12.00 transfer power supply from the
meter long container van plus 6.00 instant of interruption of normal
meter length for a long/hooded power supply to the emergency
prime mover) and one (1) loading supply shall not exceed 10
slot for a standard truck for every seconds.
5,000.00 sq. meters of gross floor
2. P. D. 1185 - Fire Code of the treatment, or use of inpatients,
Philippines and Its Implementing shall be at least one hundred
Rules and Regulations eighty three centimeters (183
cm) in clear and unobstructed
• Every aisle, passageway,
width.
corridor, exit discharge, exit
location and access shall be in • Any rooms and any suite or
accordance with Section 10.2.5.2 rooms of more than ninety three
of this IRR, except as modified in square meters (93 m2) shall
the succeeding paragraphs of this have at least two (2) exit
subsection access doors remote from each
other. Every exit or exit access
• Every health care sleeping room,
shall be so arranged that no
unless it has a door opening at
corridor or aisle has a pocket or
ground level, shall have an exit
dead-end exceeding six meters (6
access door leading directly to a
m)
corridor which leads to an exit. One
adjacent room such as a sitting or • Any health care sleeping room
anteroom may intervene if all doors which complies with the
along the path of exit travel are requirements previously set forth in
equipped with non-lockable this section may be subdivided with
hardware, and this intervening non fire rated, non-combustible
room is not intended to serve partitions, provided that the
more than eight (8) health care arrangement allows for direct and
sleeping beds. However, special constant visual supervision by
nursing suites or nurseries nursing personnel. Rooms which
permitted in this Division shall not are so subdivided shall not exceed
be limited to eight (8) cribs or four hundred sixty five square
bassinets. meters (465 m2).
• Aisles, corridors and ramps • Exit access doors from hospital
required for exit access of exit in and nursing home sleeping rooms,
hospitals or nursing homes shall be diagnostic and treatment rooms or
at least two hundred forty four areas such as X-ray, surgery and
(244) centimeters in clear and physical therapy, all doors between
unobstructed width. Aisles, these spaces and the required
corridors and ramps required for exits, and all exit doors serving
exit access or exit in a residential- these spaces shall be at least one
custodial care institution shall be at hundred twelve (112)
least one hundred eighty three centimeters. Doors to residential-
centimeters (183 cm) in clear custodial sleeping rooms and doors
and unobstructed width. Corridors to nursery sleeping rooms and all
and ramps in adjunct areas not exit doors serving these spaces
intended for the housing,
shall be at least ninety one  Center mullions are
centimeters (91 cm) wide. prohibited Ramps in
accordance with
• Every stair and smokeproof
Section 10.2.5.7 shall
enclosure shall be in accordance
be permitted.
with Section 10.2.5.4.
 Each hospital shall be
• At least two and eight-tenths provided with
(2.80) square meter per emergency lighting as
occupant in a hospital or nursing described in Section
home or one and four-tenths (1.40) 10.2.5.11 and exit
square meter per occupant in a markings as described
residential-custodial care institution in Section 10.2.5.12 of
shall be provided on each side of this IRR. Such
the horizontal exit for the total emergency lighting and
number of 156 occupants in the illumination of
adjoining compartments. required exits and
directional signs shall
 A single door may be used as
be supplied by the Life
a horizontal exit if it serves
Safety Branch of the
one direction only and is at
hospital electrical
least one hundred twelve
system as described in
centimeters (112 cm) wide
NFPA 99, Standard for
for a hospital or nursing
Health Care Facilities.
home or at least ninety one
 The Life Safety Branch
centimeters (91 cm) wide for
shall also serve alarms,
residential-custodial care
emergency
institutions. The swing shall
communication
be in the direction of exit
systems and the
travel.
illumination of
• A horizontal exit involving a generator set locations
corridor two and four tenths (2.40) as described in
meters or more in width serving as paragraph (c), (d) and
means of egress from both sides of (e), Section 312 of the
the doorway shall have the opening same reference. Each
protected by a pair of swinging nursing home and
doors, each door having a clear residential-custodial
width of 1055 mm and swinging in care facility shall have
the opposite direction from the emergency lighting in
other. accordance with
Section 10.2.5.11 of
• An approved vision panel is this IRR. Emergency
required in each horizontal exit lighting with at least 1
door.
 1⁄2 hour duration shall storeys shall have enclosure
be provided. walls of non-combustible
materials having a fire
• Exit signs shall be provided in
resistance rating of at least
each hospital, nursing home, and
two (2) hours around
residential custodial care facility in
stairways, elevators, chutes,
accordance with Section 10.2.5.12
and other vertical openings
of this IRR.
between floors.
• Smoke Partitions Required -
• All interior walls and partitions in
Smoke partitions shall be provided,
buildings of fire-resistive and
regardless of building construction
noncombustible construction shall
type, as follows: To divide into at
be composed of non-combustible
least two (2) compartments every
materials. Every health care
storey used by 157 inpatients for
sleeping room shall have an
sleeping or treatment and any
outside window or outside door
storey having an occupant load of
arranged and located so that it can
fifty (50) or more persons.
be opened from the inside without
 Health care buildings of one the use of tools or keys to permit
(1) storey only may be the products of combustion and to
constructed of protected non- permit any occupant to have direct
combustible construction, access to fresh air in case of
fire-resistive construction, emergency. The maximum
protected ordinary allowable sill height shall not
construction, protected wood exceed ninety one centimeters (91
frame construction, heavy cm) above the floor except that in
timber construction or special nursing care areas the
unprotected noncombustible window sill may be one and a half
construction. For the purpose meters (1.5 m) above the floor.
of this subsection, storeys
• Fixed wired glass vision panels
shall be 158 counted starting
may be placed in corridor walls,
at the lowest floor of exit
provided they do not exceed eighty
discharge. All levels below
four-hundredth square meters (0.84
the floor of exit discharge
m2) in size and are installed in
shall be separated from the
approved steel frames. Fixed wired
floor of exit discharge by at
glass vision panels may be
least protected non-
installed in wooden doors, provided
combustible construction.
they do not exceed forty six-
 Health care buildings two (2)
hundredth square meters (0.46
storeys or more shall be at
m2) size and are installed in
least fire resistive
approved steel frames.
construction. Health care
occupancies two (2) or more
• Waiting areas of twenty three nursing homes and residential-
square meters (23 m2) or less on custodial care facilities. Every
an institutional sleeping floor of building shall have an electrically
fifty six square meters (56 m2) or supervised automatic fire alarm
less on other floors may be open to system capable of being manually
the corridor, provided that they are operated in accordance with
located to permit direct supervision Section 10.2.6.4 of this IRR. The fire
by the institutional staff so alarm system shall be installed with
arranged as not to obstruct any provisions for future connection to
access to required exits. Such the nearest BFP station in the
areas shall be equipped with an locality. Internal audible alarm
electrically supervised automatic devices shall be provided in
smoke detection system installed accordance with Section 10.2.6.4 of
in accordance with this Section. Not this IRR. Pre-signal systems shall
more than one such waiting area is not be permitted in healthcare
permitted in each smoke occupancies.
compartment.
•If the fire suppression system is
• Any stairway, ramp, elevator an automatic sprinkler, its piping
shaft, light and ventilation serving no more than six (6)
shaft, chute and other sprinklers for any isolated
openings between storeys shall hazardous area, may be connected
be enclosed with noncombustible directly to a domestic water supply
materials in accordance with system having a capacity sufficient
Section 10.2.5.2., Section 10.2.6.2 to provide six (6) liters per minute
of this IRR and this Section. per square meters of floor area
throughout the entire enclosed
• A door in a stairway enclosure
area. An outside-screw-and-yoke
shall be self-closing, shall normally
shutoff valve shall be installed in
be kept in closed position and shall
an accessible location between the
be marked in accordance with
sprinklers and the connection to
Section 10.2.5.3 of this IRR
the domestic water supply.
• Fire-stopping shall be provided
•Portable fire extinguishers shall be
in accordance with Section 10.2.6.5
provided in all institutional
of this IRR.
occupancies in accordance with
• Interior finish of walls and Section 10.2.6.5 of this IRR.
ceilings in means of egress and
•Any hazardous area shall be
of any room shall be Class A in
segregated and protected in
accordance with Section
accordance with Section 10.2.6.8 of
10.2.6.3 of this IRR, while floor
this IRR such as the Boiler and
finish material shall be Class A
heater rooms, Laundries, Kitchens,
or B throughout all hospitals,
and Employee locker rooms, trash
collection rooms, and soiled linen • Emergency lighting shall be
rooms must be separated and provided in accordance with
provided with automatic fire Section 10.2.5.11 of this IRR.
suppression system.
• Exit signs shall be provided in
• Between any room door intended areas accessible to the public.
as exit access and an exit shall not
• Any vertical opening shall be
exceed thirty meters (30m)
enclosed or protected. Exception
• Between any point in a room and no. 1: Unprotected vertical
an exit shall not exceed forty six openings in accordance with
meters (46 m) Section 10.2.6.2 of this IRR shall be
permitted. Exception no. 2: In
• Any point in a sleeping room to
sleeping quarters smoke
the door in that room shall have a
compartments, unprotected
maximum travel distance of ten
vertical openings shall be
meters (10 m)
permitted in accordance with the
• Exits shall be permitted to conditions of 10.2.6.2of this IRR,
discharge into a fenced or walled provided that the height between
courtyard, provided that not more the lowest and highest finished
than two walls of the courtyard are floor levels does not exceed seven
the building walls from which meters (7 m). The number of levels
egress is being made. Enclosed shall not be restricted. Sleeping
yards or courts shall be of sufficient quarters subdivided in accordance
size to accommodate all occupants with this section shall be permitted
at a distance of not less than to be considered as part of the
fifteen meters (15 m) from the communicating space. The
building while providing a net area separation shall not be required to
of one and four-tenths square have a fire resistance rating.
meters (1.4 m2) per person.
• At least two and eight-tenths
•All exits shall be permitted to (2.80) square meter per occupant
discharge through the level of exit in a hospital or nursing home or
discharge. This requirement shall one and four-tenths (1.40) square
be waived, provided that not more meter per occupant in a residential-
than 50 percent of the exits custodial care institution shall be
discharge into a single fire provided on each side of the
compartment separated from other horizontal exit for the total number
compartments by construction of 156 occupants in adjoining
having not less than a 1-hour fire compartments.
resistance rating.
A single door may be used as a
horizontal exit if it serves one
direction only and is at least one
hundred twelve centimeters (112 from the other. The minimum width
cm) wide for a hospital or nursing of each door for hospitals and
home or at least ninety one nursing homes shall be one
centimeters (91 cm) wide for hundred twelve centimeters (112
residential-custodial care cm), while that for residential
institutions. The swing shall be in custodial care institutions shall be
the direction of exit travel eighty one centimeters (81 cm).
• Each hospital shall be provided • Interior finish of walls and ceilings
with emergency lighting as in means of egress and of any room
described in Section 10.2.5.11 and shall be Class A in accordance with
exit markings as described in Section 10.2.6.3 of this IRR, while
Section 10.2.5.12 of this IRR. Such floor finish material shall be Class A
emergency lighting and the or B throughout all hospitals,
illumination of required exits and nursing homes and residential-
directional signs shall be supplied custodial care facilities.
by the Life Safety Branch of the
• An approved automatic heat
hospital electrical system as
and/or smoke detection system
described in NFPA 99, Standard for
shall be installed in all corridors of
Health Care Facilities. The Life
hospitals, nursing homes, and
Safety Branch shall also serve
residential custodial care facilities,
alarms, emergency communication
such systems shall be installed in
systems and the illumination of
accordance with the applicable
generator set locations as
standards of the NFPA 72, but in no
described in paragraph (c), (d) and
case shall smoke detectors be
(e), Section 312 of the same
spaced further apart than nine (9)
reference.
meters on centers or more than
•Each nursing home and four and six-tenths meters (4.60 m)
residential-custodial care facility from any wall all automatic heat
shall have emergency lighting in and/or smoke detection systems
accordance with Section 10.2.5.11 required by this section shall be
of this IRR. Emergency lighting with electrically interconnected to the
at least 1 1/2 hour duration shall be fire alarm system.
provided.
Approved, supervised sprinkler
• Exit signs shall be provided in system shall be provided
each hospital, nursing home, and throughout all hospitals, nursing
residential custodial care facility in homes, and residential-custodial
accordance with Section 10.2.5.12 care facilities. Replenishment of
of this IRR Corridor openings in water supplies shall be strictly
smoke partitions shall be protected considered in the design. Quick-
by a pair of swinging doors, doors response sprinklers shall be
to swing in a direction opposite
required in smoke compartments handled, transported and
containing patient sleeping rooms. manufactured as follows:
• The administration of every 1. All compressed gas containers,
hospital, nursing home and shall be stored in an upright
residential custodial care institution position
shall have an approved evacuation
with the valve ending. For non-
plan for the guidance of all persons
liquefied gases, the axis of the
in the event of fire. Copies of such
container shall be limited to forty-
plans shall be made available to all
five degrees (45°) from the vertical
supervisors and personnel. All
provided that it is properly secured
employees shall be instructed and
except, when it is empty, its
kept informed of their detailed
duties under the plan. A copy of content is less than five liters (5) or
the plan shall be readily available the container is designed for use in
at all times, in the telephone a horizontal position.
operator's position, or at the
2. Racks or fastenings shall be
security center.
made to protect cylinders from
• Fire exit drills in hospitals shall accidental damage or dislocation.
include the transmission of a fire
3. Indoor and outdoor storage of
alarm signal and simulation of
compressed gases shall comply
emergency fire conditions except
with the material-specific
that the movement of infirm or
requirements provided in the MSDS
bed-ridden patients to safe areas or
or
to the exterior or the building is not
required. Drills shall be conducted manufacturer's technical
quarterly on each shift to specifications/ data or other
familiarize hospital personnel applicable provisions of this IRR.
(nurses, interns, maintenance
personnel and administrative staff) 4. Indoor storage, use areas and
with signals and emergency action storage buildings shall be provided
required under varied conditions. • with
Medical and related compressed mechanical exhaust ventilation or
gasses such as flammable natural ventilation. When
anesthetic; nonflammable medical
gases in hospitals, medical schools, mechanical ventilation is provided,
laboratories and similar facilities; the system shall be operational
bulk oxygen in industrial and during such time as the building or
healthcare consumer sites; and space is occupied.
other compressed gases of similar
and related uses shall be stored, 3. P. D. 856 - Code on Sanitation
of the Philippines and Its
Implementing Rules and under tables for wheelchair users is
Regulations 0.70 m. Counter height shall be
placed at a level comfortable to
4. B. P. 344 - Accessibility Law and
disabled persons' reach.
Its Implementing Rules and
Regulations • Ramps shall have a minimum
clear width of 1.20 m
The Accessibility Law is essential to
every Hospitals for they always • The length of a ramp should not
handle wheelchairs and PWD exceed 6:00 m. if the gradient is
Equipments, the Hospital provides 1:12; longer ramps whose
wheelchairs to mothers every after
gradient is 1:12 shall be provided
they deliver the baby or when they
with landings not less than 1.50m.
service the mother through the
Hospital Wards. It is important to • A level area not less than 1.80 m.
know what the Standard size of should be provided at the top and
rams, exits, and corridors are so bottom of any ramp • Handrails will
that it can be accessible for a be provided on both sides of the
person who is using a wheelchair ramp at 0.70 m. and 0.90 m. from
and what are the proper sizes of the ramp leve • Ramps shall be
bathrooms or toilets to make it equipped with curbs on both sides
accessible for People with with a minimum height of 0.10 m
Disability.
• Any ramp with a rise greater than
• The provision of this section shall 0.20 m. and leads down towards an
apply to the specified type of area where vehicular traffic is
facilities and identified specific possible, should have a railing
requirements for accessibility and across the full width of its lower
usability which shall be provided end, not less than 1.80 meters
for each of the listed occupancy from the foot of the ramp
uses.
• All doors shall have a minimum
• The length of wheelchairs varies clear width of 0.80 m Clear
from 1.10 m to 1.30 m. The width openings shall be measured
of wheelchairs is from 0.60 m to between the surface of the fully
0.75 m. A circle of 1.50 m in open door at the hinge and the
diameter is a suitable guide in the door jamb at the stop
planning of wheelchair turning
• A minimum clear level space of
spaces. The comfortable reach of
1.50 m x 1.50 m shall be provided
persons confined to wheelchairs is
before and extending beyond a
from 0.70 m to 1.20 m above the
door; EXCEPTION: where a door
floor and not less than 0.40 m from
shall open onto but not into a
room corners. The comfortable
corridor, the required clear, level
clearance for knee and leg space
space on the corridor side of the
door may be a minimum of 1.20 m. Implementing Rules and
corridor width • Corridors shall Regulations
have minimum clear width of 1.20
• PRIVATE OR PRIVATE USE- In
m.; waiting areas and other
classification of plumbing fixtures,
facilities or spaces shall not
"private" applies to plumbing
obstruct the minimum clearance
fixtures in residences and
requirement Recesses or turnabout
apartments, to private bathrooms
spaces should be provided for
in hotels and hospitals, to rest
wheelchairs to turn around or to
rooms in commercial
enable another wheelchair to pass;
establishments for restricted use,
these spaces shall have a minimum
single fixture or group of single
area of 1.50 m x 1.50 m. and shall
fixtures and to similar installations
be spaced at a maximum of 12.00
where the fixtures are intended for
m
the usc of a family or an individual
• Turnabout spaces should also be • The required water closet for a
provided at or within 3.50 m. of Hospital is 1 per 25 for male, 1 per
every dead end Accessible water 20 for female
closet stalls shall have a minimum
• Required urinals are to add 1
area of 1.70 x 1.80 mts. One
fixture for each additional 50 male
movable grab bar and one fixed to
and 0 urinals for 1 to 9 water
the adjacent wall shall be installed
closets, and 1 urinal for 10-50
at the accessible water closet stall
water closets.
for lateral mounting; fixed grab
bars on both sides of the wall shall • The required Lavatory is 1 per 10
be installed for stalls for frontal males and 1 per 10 females
mounting
• The required shower is 1 per 8
• A turning space of 2.25 sq.m. persons
with a minimum dimension of 1.50
• The required drinking fountain is
m. for wheelchair shall be provided
1 per 75 persons.
for water closet stalls for lateral
mounting The minimum number of 6. R. A. 184 - Philippine Electrical
accessible water closets on each Code
floor level or on that part of a floor
level accessible to the disabled • A building or other structure
shall be one (1) where the total served shall be supplied by only
number of water closets per set on one service
that level is 20; and two (2) where • For fire pump where a separate
the number of water closets exceed service is required
20.
• Capacity Requirements. Two or
5. R. A. 1378 - National Plumbing more services shall be permitted:
Code of the Philippines and Its
a) Where the capacity
requirements are in excess of 2,000
amperes at a supply voltage of 600
volts or less; or
b) Where the load requirements of
a single-phase installation are
greater than the serving agency
normally supplies through one
service
• Above Roofs. Conductors shall
have a vertical clearance of not
less than 2,500 mm from the roof
surface
• Vertical Clearance from Ground.
• 3,100 mm - at the electric service
entrance to buildings, or at the drip
loop of the building electric
entrance, or above areas or
sidewalks
• 3,700 mm - for those areas listed
in the 4,600 mm classification
when the voltage is limited to 600
volts to ground.
• 4,600 mm - over residential
property and driveways, and those
commercial areas not subject to
truck traffic.
• 5,500 mm - over public streets,
alleys, roads, parking areas subject
to truck traffic, driveways on other
than residential property, and other
land transversed by vehicles such
as cultivated, grazing, forest, and
orchard
  Clinical Laboratories
 Microbiology & Blood Banking
 Hematology & Cytology
 Imunology & Serology
 Mycobacteriology
 Clinical Microscopy
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
(COURSES: MEDTECH,
NURSING, SCHOOL NURSING SPACE
REQUIREMENTS
PHRAMACY)
 Student’s Conference Room
Building Classification: Group
 Teaching Spaces
C-Division 2
 Classroom
SPECIFIC SCHOOL  Multipurpose
REQIUREMENTS Demonstration Room
 Lecture Demo Room
 Administrative Offices
 Admission Office
 Specialized Laboratories
 Laboratories- min 2800 sq ft.
 Anatomy & Physiology
 4.60 sq. meters per
 Microbiology &
occupant
Parasitology
 Student Support Services
 Chemistry
 Common Areas
 Nursing Skills
 Public Toilets
Laboratory
 Open Area
 Pharmacology &
 Covered Court
Therapeutics
 Gymnasium- 8.5 to 9.5 sq ft.
 Medical Surgical
per student
Nursing
 Department Offices
 Mental Health Nursing
 Library- 1-2 Square meters
 Community Health
per students
Nursing
 Classroom- 15-20 square
 Simulation Center
meters
 Maternal-Child Nursing
 60 students per room
 Computer Lab SCHOOL PHARMACY
 Student Lounge
 Pharmaceutical Chemistry
 Utility Room
Laboratory
 Canteen
 Pharmaceutics Laboratory
 Pharmacognosy Laboratory
SCHOOL MEDTECH CLASSROOM  Microbiology
& LABORATORIES
  Analytical Chemistry 
Laboratory 
 Biopharmaceutics & 1.) PD-1185
Pharmacokinetics

Users:
 Medical Students
 Interns
 Faculty Members
 Department Heads
 Administrative Staff
 Professors & Instructors
 Security Guards
 Janitors
 Librarian SHOPPING CENTER GROUP E
DIVISION 2
Building Requirements
Laws and Regulations
 Retail Spaces
to be implemented on
 Food court
Designing a College  Parking
P. D. 1096 - National Building Code  Drugstore
of the Philippines and Its  Supermarket
Implementing Rules and  Dry Good Section
Regulations  Fruits & Vegetables
Section
  Meat Section
 Frozen Food Section
 Air Space Requirements in  Snacks Section
Determining the Size of  Deli Section
Rooms -School Rooms – 3.00  Beverages
cubic meters with 1.00  Cereal Section
square meter of floor area  Cosmetics Section
per person  Cleaning Supplies
 Minimum of Two (2) Exits Section
Other than  Customer’s Service
 Elevators are Required Where  Push Cart Area
Number of Occupants is Over  Cahier’s Area
50 in School Laboratories,  Storage
Conference Rooms or 
Classrooms.  Resturants
  Banks
 Public Toilets
 Administrative Office
 Utility Room
 Storage
 Women’s & Men’s wear
 Security’s Office
 Guard House
 Elevator
 Café
 Pandayan
 Optamologist Clinic
 Salon/ Barber

Users:
 Consumer Visitors
 Local Residents
 Business Owners
 Employees
 Event Participants
 Service Seekers
 Delivery Service Personnel
 Commuters
 Remote Users
 Students
 Med Student
RESIDENTIAL GROUP B
RESIDNETIAL 5
Laws and Regulations Building Requirements:
to be implemented on Church
Designing a Shopping
Resturant
Centez
Lap Pool