BUILDING SERVICES SYSTEM

-Arch. Rino Fernandez

1. Air Conditioning System

2. Electrical System
3. Plumbing System
4. Fire Extinguishing System
5. Vertical Transport System
6. Acoustics
7. Lighting

ACOUSTICS and LIGHTING

-Provide an Ante Room

-Rear and Sides should absorb sound

-Ceiling reflects sound

-For theaters, all sides must be treated with absorptive materials, floors however could be of reflective
material

-For offices, all sides with absorptive material

-For recording studio, sides are treated with diffusive materials, rough surfaces, concave and convex
shapes.

-No specific space requirement

-Requires Surface Treatment

BUILDING SERVICES SYTEMS (UTILITIES)

1. Review how the system works

2. Provide the systems architectural requirements

AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS

-provides warm, cooled, clean and treated air into habitable space

1. Duct Free (Package Type)

Fan and Condenser Unit
PTAC, FCU
2. Ducted (Centralized Type)
Chiller, AHU and Cooling Tower

DUCT FREE

WALL MOUNTED
HP APPLICABLE AREA
1.00 20sqm
1.50 24sqm
2.00 32sqm
2.50 38sqm
4.00 50sqm

CEILING MOUNTED
HP APPLICABLE AREA
3.00 45sqm
4.00 50sqm
6.00 80sqm

CEILING CASSETTE
HP APPLICABLE AREA
3.00 45sqm
5.00 85sqm
 FLOOR MOUNTED
HP APPLICABLE AREA
3.00 45sqm
5.00 80sqm

FCU= fan coiled unit

ACCU = Air Conditioning Condensing Unit

Inverter: 1HP = Both Units

DUCTED TYPE

CHILLER = 1st Basement,

-considerations: vibration, noise, need structural reinforcement

Ceiling height: 3.66m (midrise) 4.88 (high rise)

ACU CHILLER
Chiller
Building Type TFA Area
1000sqm 15sqm
Apartments, 3000sqm 30sqm
Hotel, 5000sqm 50sqm
Dormitories, 10000sqm 70sqm
Hospital 20000sqm 180sqm
Patient 30000sqm 300sqm
Rooms
40000sqm 400sqm
50000sqm 500sqm
1000sqm 15sqm
3000sqm 30sqm
Office, 5000sqm 80sqm
Schools, 10000sqm 150sqm
Commercial 20000sqm 300sqm
Lots 30000sqm 450sqm
40000sqm 600sqm
50000sqm 900sqm
1000sqm 20sqm
3000sqm 60sqm
Auditoriums, 5000sqm 100sqm
Theatres, 10000sqm 250sqm
Restaurant 20000sqm 500sqm
Buildings 30000sqm 700sqm
40000sqm 900sqm
50000sqm 1100sqm
AHU

AHU (FAN ROOM)

Chiller
Building Type TFA Area
1000sqm 50sqm
Apartments, 3000sqm 70sqm
Hotel, 5000sqm 100sqm
Dormitories, 10000sqm 200sqm
Hospital 20000sqm 400sqm
Patient 30000sqm 600sqm
Rooms
40000sqm 800sqm
50000sqm 1000sqm
1000sqm 55sqm
3000sqm 90sqm
Office, 5000sqm 180sqm
Schools, 10000sqm 300sqm
Commercial 20000sqm 600sqm
Lots 30000sqm 900sqm
40000sqm 900sqm
50000sqm 1200sqm
1000sqm 60sqm
3000sqm 150sqm
Auditoriums, 5000sqm 250sqm
Theatres, 10000sqm 500sqm
Restaurant 20000sqm 900sqm
Buildings 30000sqm 1200sqm
40000sqm 1500sqm
50000sqm 1800sqm
Cooling Towers: Common Location (roof)

-the towers should be isolated acoustically (vibration)

COOLING TOWERS
Chiller
Building Type TFA Area
1000sqm 6sqm
Apartments, 3000sqm 10sqm
Hotel, 5000sqm 15sqm
Dormitories, 10000sqm 25sqm
Hospital 20000sqm 50sqm
Patient 30000sqm 70sqm
Rooms
40000sqm 90sqm
50000sqm 120sqm
1000sqm 6sqm
3000sqm 12sqm
Office, 5000sqm 20sqm
Schools, 10000sqm 40sqm
Commercial 20000sqm 60sqm
Lots 30000sqm 120sqm
40000sqm 160sqm
50000sqm 200sqm
1000sqm 8sqm
3000sqm 15sqm
Auditoriums, 5000sqm 25sqm
Theatres, 10000sqm 60sqm
Restaurant 20000sqm 100sqm
Buildings 30000sqm 160sqm
40000sqm 200sqm
50000sqm 300sqm
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM COMPONENTS

Service Entrance Requirements

1. Transformer Space Room

2. Main Electrical Room
3. Back-up Power System (GENSET)

Indoor Distribution Requirement

1. Electrical Room

TRANSFORMERS

Residential Building:

20000sqm 6 x 6 x 3.50

3000sqm 6 x 9 x 3.50

6000sqm 6 x 12 x 3.50

20000sqm 6 x 24 x 3.50

Commercial Building:

1000sqm 6 x 6 x 3.50

1500sqm 6 x 9 x 3.50

3000sqm 6 x 12 x 3.50

1000sqm 6 x 24 x 3.50

MAIN ELECTRICAL ROOM

Residential Building and Commercial

20000sqm 9 x 6 x 3.50

3000sqm 9 x 8 x 3.50

6000sqm 9 x 12 x 3.50

20000sqm 9 x 24 x 3.50

Secondary Electrical Room: 12.00sqm for every year

PLUMBING SYSTEM

Water Supply and Storage

1. Service Entry
2. Reservoir/Cistern
3. Pump Room

Pump Room Water Pump Room Fire Pump

Up to 18500sqm 3x4 6x4

Up to 93000sqm 5x4 9x8

Refer to the National Plumbing Code of the Philippines

Sewage Disposal System

-on Site

Septic Tank (anaerobic treatment)

Aerobic Treatment Unit

Sewage Treatment Plant

Off site

-Sewer System

VERTICAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM

-machine room less elevators

1 elev -3 floors good; 1elev 4floors fair; 1 elev -5 floors poor