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LAWS AND GUIDELINES ON SANITARY FACILITIES

1. PHILIPPINE GREEN BUILDING CODE
1.1. SECTION 11: Water Recycling

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All building occupancies (residential, hotel/resort, educational, institutional,

business, mercantile, and mixed occupancy) with dedicated Sewage Treatment Plant
shall only use the produced recycled water for non-potable purposes like flushing,
irrigation and cooling towers. This could be done through a distinct and separate piping
system from the potable water supply system.

Philippine Green Building Code, 2015

2. PD 1096: RULE IX – SANITATION

2.1. SECTION 903: Wastewater Disposal
 Pre-treated wastewater and sanitary sewage from buildings shall be
discharged directly into the nearest municipal or city street sanitary
sewer main.
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 All building in areas with no available sanitary sewerage system shall

dispose their sewage to “Imhoff” or septic tank and subsurface
absorption field or to a suitable waste water treatment plant or disposal
system.

 Industrial and sanitary plumbing installations inside buildings and

premises shall conform to the Revised National Plumbing Code of the
Philippines

2.2. SECTION 904: Storm Drainage System

 Rainwater drainage shall not discharge to the sanitary sewer system.

 Provisions shall be made to drain rainwater from low areas in buildings

and within the site.

 Sewerage system and drainage pipe installation of any premises and/or

connection with any public disposal or other acceptable terminal shall
conform to the Revised Plumbing Code of the Philippines.

P.D. 1096: National Building Code of the Philippines

Introduction:

To create a safe and resilient environment, designers and builders need a

standard set of laws and guidelines. It is where building codes and laws play a
significant role. Building codes are sets of regulations governing the design,
construction, alteration and maintenance of structures. It specifies the minimum
requirements to adequately safeguard the health, safety and welfare of building
occupants. These laws dictate many aspects of design, such as exit locations, the size
of a building, the location of a building on the property, the fire resistance of a structure,
energy consumption and disabled accessibility.

https://www.fema.gov/building-codes

The first edition of the International Building Code came out in 1997 with the
help of an array of stakeholders, including architects, builders and policymakers.
Before this, builders were left to their own devices in constructing buildings and in
some cases, buildings have been structurally unsafe, emergency exits might have
been inadequate or buildings may have been unsanitary. As years passed, building
codes started to develop from early fire codes and regulations of insurance
companies, which came out of the late industrial period after many disastrous fires
that resulted in significant loss of life.

With the creation of an International Building Code, it became a template for

various locales not just in the U.S. but also around the world to develop their own
standards. Today, a wide variety of local and international building laws are now
available which play a big role and contribution to the society and to the field of
architecture and allied professions.

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