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    This document outlines classifications and requirements for buildings based on their use under the National Building Code. It divides buildings into groups for residential (A), residential buildings/structures and hotels/apartments (B), education and recreation (C), government and health services (D), business and mercantile (E), industrial (F and G), assembly for less than 1,000 people (H), agricultural and accessory structures (J). It provides examples of building types that would fall under each division and specifies parking requirements based on building type and occupancy.

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    This document outlines classifications and requirements for buildings based on their use under the National Building Code. It divides buildings into groups for residential (A), residential buildings/structures and hotels/apartments (B), education and recreation (C), government and health services (D), business and mercantile (E), industrial (F and G), assembly for less than 1,000 people (H), agricultural and accessory structures (J). It provides examples of building types that would fall under each division and specifies parking requirements based on building type and occupancy.

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    NATIONAL BUILDING CODE - IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS

    RULE VII – CLASSIFICATION AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF BUILDINGS


    BY USE OR OCCUPANCY

    GROUP A “RESIDENTIAL (DWELLINGS)

    Division A-1 residential buildings for exclusive use of single family occupants

    1. Indigenous family dwelling units


    2. single-detached units
    3. school or company staff housing
    4. church rectories
    5. single family dwellings
    6. churches or similar places of worship
    7. community facilities and social centers
    8. parks, playgrounds, pocket parks, parkways, promenades and playlots
    9. Clubhouses and recreational uses such as golf courses, tennis courts operated by the
    government or private individuals as membership organizations for the benefit of their
    members, families and guests.

    Division A-2 residential buildings for the exclusive use of non-leasing occupants not exceeding
    10 persons

    1. single-attached or duplex or townhouse, each privately owned


    2. school dormitories (on-campus)
    3. convents and monasteries
    4. military or pocket barracks
    5. all uses in Division A-1
    6. pre-schools, elementary and high schools with not more than 16 classrooms
    7. outpatient clinics, family planning clinics, lying-in clinics, diagnostic clinics, medical and
    clinical laboratories
    8. branch library and museum
    9. steam/dry cleaning outlets
    10. party needs and accessories

    GROUP B – RESIDENTIAL (BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES, HOTELS AND


    APARTMENTS)

    Division B-1

    1. all uses in Divisions A-1 and A-2


    2. Leased single detached dwelling unit, cottage with more than one independent unit and
    duplexes
    3. boarding and lodging houses
    4. multiple housing units for lease or for sale
    5. townhouses, each privately owned
    6. boarding houses
    7. accessories, row houses, townhouses, tenements and apartments
    8. multiple privately-owned condominium
    9. hotels, motels, inns, pension houses and apartels
    10. private or off-campus dormitories
    11. elementary schools and high schools not more than 20 classrooms

    GROUP C – EDUCATION AND RECREATION (INSTITUTIONAL)

    Division C-I

    1. amusement halls and parlors


    2. massage and sauna parlors
    3. health studios and reducing salons
    4. billiard halls, pool rooms, bowling alleys and golf club
    5. dancing schools, disco parks, dance and amusement hall
    6. gymnasia, pelota courts and sports complex

    Division C-2

    1. educational institutions like schools, colleges, universities, vocational, seminaries,


    convents, including school auditoriums, gymnasia, reviewing stands, little theaters,
    concert halls, opera houses
    2. seminar/workshop facilities
    3. training centers/facilities
    4. libraries, museums, exhibition halls and art galleries
    5. civic centers, clubhouses, lodges, community centers
    6. churches, mosque, temples, shrines, chapels and similar places of worship
    7. civic or government centers
    8. other types of government buildings

    GROUP D – GOVERNMENT AND HEALTH SERVICES (INSTITUTIONAL)

    Division D-I (institutional where personal liberties of inmates are restrained or quarters of those
    rendering public assistance and maintaining peace and order)

    1. mental hospitals, sanitaria and mental asylums


    2. police and fire stations, guard houses
    3. jails, prisons, reformatories and correctional institutions
    4. rehabilitation centers
    5. leprosaria and quarantine station

    Division D-2 (institutional buildings for health care)


    1. hospitals, sanitaria and homes for the aged
    2. nurseries for children of kindergarten age or non-ambulatory patients accommodating
    more than 5 persons

    Division D-3 (institutional for ambulatory patients or children over kindergarten age)

    1. nursing homes for ambulatory patients


    2. school and home for children over kindergarten age
    3. orphanages

     
    GROUP E – BUSINESS AND MERCANTILE (COMMERCIAL)

    Division E-I (business and mercantile where no work is done except change of parts and
    maintenance requiring no open flames, welding or use of highly flammable liquids)

    1. all uses in Division B-1


    2. gasoline filling and station
    3. storage garage and boat storage
    4. commercial garage and parking buildings, display for cars, tractors, etc.
    5. bus and railways depots and terminals and offices
    6. port facilities
    7. airports and heliport facilities
    8. all other types of transportation complexes
    9. all other types of large complexes for public services
    10. pawnshops, money shops, photo and portrait studios, shoeshine/repair stands, retail
    drugstores, tailoring and dress shops
    11. bakeshops and bakery goods stores
    12. construction supplies and building materials such as electrical and electronic stores,
    plumbing supply stores

    Division E-2 (business and mercantile in nature)

    1. wholesale and retail stores


    2. shopping centers, malls and supermarkets
    3. wet and dry markets
    4. restaurants, drinking and dining establishments with less than one hundred occupancies
    5. day and night clubs, bars, cocktails

    Division E-3 (business and mercantile where no repair work is done except exchange of parts
    and maintenance requiring no open flames, welding or use of highly flammable liquid)

    1. aircraft hangars
    2. commercial parking lots and garages
    3. department stores, shopping malls
     

    GROUP F – INDUSTRIAL (NON-POLLUTIVE/NON-HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES AND


    NON-POLLUTIVE/HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES)

    Division F-1 (Light industrial)  

    GROUP G – STORAGE AND HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIAL (POLLUTIVE/NON-


    HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES AND POLLUTIVE/HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES ONLY)

    Division G-1 (Medium Industrial which shall include storage and handling of hazardous and
    highly flammable materials)

    Division G-2 (Medium Industrial buildings for storage and handling of flammable materials)

    Division G-3 (Medium Industrial buildings for wood working activities, paper cardboard
    manufacturers, textile and garment factories)

    Division G-4 (Medium Industrial, for repair garages and engine manufacture)

    Division G-5 (Medium Industrial for aircraft facilities)  

    GROUP H – ASSEMBLY FOR LESS THAN 1,000 (CULTURAL AND/OR


    RECREATIONAL)

    Division H-1 (Recreational, which are assembly buildings with stage and having an occupant
    load of less than 1,000.

    1. Theaters and auditoriums


    2. concert hall and opera houses
    3. convention halls
    4. little theater, audio-visual room

    Division H-2 (Recreational which are assembly buildings with stage and having an occupant
    load of 300 or more)

    1. dance halls, cabarets, ballrooms


    2. skating rinks
    3. cockfighting areas

    Division H-3 (Recreational which are assembly buildings with stage and having an occupant
    load of less than 300

    1. dance halls, ballrooms


    2. skating rinks

    GROUP J

    Division J-1 agricultural structures

    1. sheds
    2. barns
    3. poultry houses
    4. piggeries
    5. hatcheries
    6. stables
    7. greenhouses
    8. granaries

    Division J-2 Accessory

    1. private garages, carports


    2. towers and silos, smokestacks and chimneys
    3. swimming pools including shower and locker room

    Division J-3 

    1. stages, platforms and similar structures


    2. pelota, tennis or basketball courts
    3. tombs, mausoleums, niches
    4. fence over 1.80 m high
    5. steel or concrete tanks
    6. aviaries and aquariums and zoo structures
    7. banks and record vaults

    OCCUPANT LOADS

    1. Determination of occupant load “the occupant load shall be determined by dividing the
    floor area assigned to that use by the unit area per occupant set forth in Table VIII.3.1 or
    in the Architectural Code of the Philippines whichever required more exits.
    2. The occupant load of any area having fixed seats shall be determined by the number of
    fixed seats installed.
    PARKING SLOT, PARKING AREA AND LOADING/UNLOADING SPACE
    REQUIREMENTS

    TYPE OF OCCUPANCY PARKING REQUIREMENTS


    Low income single detached living unit Pooled parking: 1 slot/10 units
    with individual lots not more than 100m²
    Multi-family living units regardless of no. 1 slot/8 units
    of stories with average living floor area of
    50m²
    Multi-family living units regardless of no. 1 slot/ 4 units
    of stories with average living floor area of
    above 50m² to 100m²
    Multi-family living units regardless of no. 1 slot/ unit
    of stories with average living floor area of
    more than 100m²
    Hotels 1 slot/ 10 rooms
    Residential hotels and aparteles 1 slot/ 5 units
    Motels 1 slot/ unit
    Shopping centers 1 slot/ 100m²
    Markets 1 slot/ 150m²
    Restaurants, fast food outlets, bars and 1 slot/ 30m² of customer area
    beerhouses
    Nightclubs, supper clubs and theater- 1 slot/ 20m² of customer area
    restaurants
    Office building 1 slot/ 125m² of gross floor area
    Pension/ boarding/ lodging houses 1 slot/ 20 beds
    Other buildings in business and 1 slot/ 125m² of gross floor area
    commercial zones
    Public assembly buildings 1 slot/ 50m² of spectator area
    Places of worship and funerary parlors 1 slot/ 50m² of congregation area
    Elementary schools, secondary schools, 1 slot/ 10 classrooms
    vocational and trade schools
    College and universities 1 slot/ 5 classrooms
    Hospitals 1 slot/ 25 beds
    Bowling alleys 1 slot/ 4 alleys
    Amusement centers 1 slot/ 50m² of gross floor area
    Clubhouses, beach houses, etc. 1 slot/ 100m² of gross floor area
    Factories, manufacturing, mercantile, 1 slot/ 1000m² of gross floor area
    warehouses and storage bin
    Tourist bus parking 2 bus slots/ hotel or theater restaurant
    SPECIAL PROVISIONS: accessible parking lot for 50-150 slots and an additional slot for
    every 100 thereafter.

    LOADING SLOT REQUIREMENTS:

    TYPE OF OCCUPANCY LOADING REQUIREMENTS


    Stores, manufacturing, mercantile, 1 loading slot for every 5000m² of gross
    wholesale and the like floor area (minimum of 1 truck loading
    slot)
    Hotels and hospitals 1 truck loading slot

    1. In computing for parking slots, a fraction of 50% and above shall be considered as one
    car parking slot.
    2. In areas where adequate public parking lots/multi-floor parking garages are available
    within 200 m of the proposed building, only 30% of parking requirement need to be
    provided within their premises.

    ALLOWABLE MAXIMUM TOTAL GROSS FLOOR AREA (TGFA)

    General. 

    1. The Allowable Maximum Total Gross Floor Area (TGFA) of any proposed
    building shall only be as allowed under this Rule
    2. TGFA Limitation “In Table Vii.6.1. the percentages indicated in the 3rd through 8th
    columns are the percentages of the Total Lot Area (TLA) that may be used to
    determine the Allowable Maximum TGFA while the multiplier numbers 3, 5, 12,
    18 and 30 represent the number of storeys.”
    3. The Allowable Maximum TGFA should not exceed the Allowable Maximum
    Volume of Building (AMVB). If exceeded, the Allowable Maximum TGFA must
    be adjusted since the AMVB must always prevail.

    ALLOWED HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES

    1. General. The maximum height and number of storeys of proposed building shall


    be dependent upon the character of use or occupancy, on the type of construction,
    on end-user population density, light and ventilation, width of road right-of-way,
    building bulk, off-street cum off-site parking requirements and local land use plan
    and zoning regulations.
    2. The Building Height Limit (BHL) shall only be as allowed under this Rule or
    under the duly approved city zoning ordinance, whichever is more restrictive
    (refer to Table VII.7.1)

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