National Building Code of the Philippines

SECTION 2105. Effectivity. This Decree shall take effect upon its promulgation. Done in the City of Manila, this 19th of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA Presidential Assistant * Amendment officially announced by Secretary Gregorio R. Vigilar on July 24, 1996, who also stated the following: B. IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS B.1. RULE - BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS 3.2.2.4. Electrical: a) For new electrical installation, [with more than twenty (20) outlets or a capacity of more than a 4Kw, of an voltage,] application shall be accompanied by A TECHNICAL specifications and electrical plans signed and sealed by a duly License Professional Electrical engineer, containing the following: LOCATION PLAN Legend AND GENERAL NOTES Electrical Layout Schedule of Loads Design Analysis AND COMPUTATIONS ONE Line Diagram OF THE WHOLE INSTALLATION Riser Diagram FOR MULTI-STOREY BUILDING b) For addition and/or alteration of existing electrical installation, [involving more than 20 outlets or more than 4 Kw of any voltage,] application/s 7 shall be accompanied by A REVISED TECHNICAL specifications and electrical plans signed and sealed Licensed Professional Electrical engineer, containing the following: REVISED Legend AND GENERAL NOTES REVISED Electrical Layout REVISED Schedule of Loads REVISED Design analysis AND COMPUTATIONS REVISED ONE Line Diagram OF THE WHOLE INSTALLATION REVISED Riser Diagram FOR MULTI-STOREY BUILDING B.2 RULE 1X - ELECTRICAL REGULATIONS Pursuant to Sections 102, 103 and 13.01 of the National Building Code (PD 1096) the [following] rules AND REGULATIONS EMBODIED IN THE LATEST EDITIONS OF THE PHILIPPINES ELECTRICAL CODE, PARTS 1 AND 2 shall govern IN the installation of primary and secondary distribution lines, ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, [Transformers] and other equipment [in subdivisions, along public and private roads attached to or over buildings.] C. ELECTRICAL PERMIT FORMS MPW Form No. 77-001-E to MPW Form 77-005-E are revised and amended by DPWH Form No. 96-001-E tp DPWH Form 96-006-E Note: 1 Capitalized and Bold words/letters are amendments. Note 2. Bracketed and italized words/ letters are deleted. ANNEX "A" WORDS, TERMS AND PHRASES (Definitions) ACCESSORIA OR ROW HOUSE A house of not more than two storeys, composed of a row or dwelling units entirely separated from one another by partly wall or walls and with an independent entrance for each dwelling units. ACCESSORY BUILDING 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. AGRICULTURAL BUILDING 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 packaged; nor shall it be placed used by the public. ALLEY Any building 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 three meters. ALTER OR ALTERATION Any change, addition, or modification in construction of occupancy. APARTMENT 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 HOUSE 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. ARCADE 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. ASSEMBLY BUILDING OR HALL 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. ATTIC STOREY Any storey situated wholly or partly in a roof, so designed, arranged, or built as to be used for business, storage, or habitation. AWNING 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. BACKING The surface or assembly to which veneer is attached. BALCONY 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 EXTERIOR EXIT 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. BARBECUE A stationary open hearth or brazier, either fuel-fired or electric, used for floor preparation. BASEMENT 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. BAY OR PANEL One of the intervals or spaces into which the building front is divided by columns, buttresses, or division walls. BOARDING HOUSE 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. BOILER ROOM Any room containing a stream or hotwater boiler. BUILDABLE AREA The remaining space in a lot after deducting the required minimum open spaces. BUILDING Any structure built for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind. BUILDING HEIGHT The vertical distance from the established grade elevation to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, to the average height of the highest gable or a pitch or hip roof, or to the top of the parapet if the roof is provided with a parapet. In case of sloping ground, the average ground level of the buildable area shall be considered the established grade elevation. BUILDING LENGTH Its general lineal dimensions usually measured in the direction of the bearing wall for girders. BUILDING WIDTH Its shortest linear dimensions usually measured in the direction of the floor, beams, or joints. CELLAR 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. CHIMNEY CLASSIFICATIONS: (a) RESIDENTIAL APPLIANCE TYPE A factory-built or masonry chimney suitable for removing products of combustion from residential type appliance producing combustion gases not in excess of 538ºC measured at the appliance flue outlet.