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
- Indigenous family dwelling units
- single-detached units
- school or company staff housing
- church rectories
- single family dwellings
- churches or similar places of worship
- community facilities and social centers
- parks, playgrounds, pocket parks, parkways, promenades and playlots
- 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.
- single-attached or duplex or townhouse, each privately owned
- school dormitories (on-campus)
- convents and monasteries
- military or pocket barracks
- all uses in Division A-1
- pre-schools, elementary and high schools with not more than 16 classrooms
- outpatient clinics, family planning clinics, lying-in clinics, diagnostic clinics, medical and clinical laboratories
- branch library and museum
- steam/dry cleaning outlets
- party needs and accessories
- all uses in Divisions A-1 and A-2
- Leased single detached dwelling unit, cottage with more than one independent unit and duplexes
- boarding and lodging houses
- multiple housing units for lease or for sale
- townhouses, each privately owned
- boarding houses
- accessories, rowhouses, townhouses, tenements and apartments
- multiple privately-owned condominium
- hotels, motels, inns, pension houses and apartels
- private or off-campus dormitories
- elementary schools and highschools not more than 20 classrooms
- amusement halls and parlors
- massage and sauna parlors
- health studios and reducing salons
- billiard halls, pool rooms, bowling alleys and golf club
- dancing schools, disco parks, dance and amusement hall
- gymnasia, pelota courts and sports complex
- educational institutions like schools, colleges, universities, vocational, seminaries, convents, including school auditoriums, gymnasia, reviewing stands, little theaters, concert halls, opera houses
- seminar/workshop facilities
- training centers/facilities
- libraries, museums, exhibition halls and art galleries
- civic centers, clubhouses, lodges, community centers
- churches, mosque, temples, shrines, chapels and similar places of worship
- civic or government centers
- other types of government buildings
- mental hospitals, sanitaria and mental asylums
- police and fire stations, guard houses
- jails, prisons, reformatories and correctional institutions
- rehabilitation centers
- leprosaria and quarantine station
- hospitals, sanitaria and homes for the aged
- nurseries for children of kindergarten age or non-ambulatory patients accommodating more than 5 persons
- nursing homes for ambulatory patients
- school and home for children over kindergarten age
- orphanages
- all uses in Division B-1
- gasoline filling and station
- storage garage and boat storage
- commercial garage and parking buildings, display for cars, tractors, etc.
- bus and railways depots and terminals and offices
- port facilities
- airports and heliport facilities
- all other types of transportation complexes
- all other types of large complexes for public services
- pawnshops, money shops, photo and portrait studios, shoeshine/repair stands, retail drugstores, tailoring and dress shops
- bakeshops and bakery goods stores
- construction supplies and building materials such as electrical and electronic stores, plumbing supply stores
- wholesale and retail stores
- shopping centers, malls and supermarkets
- wet and dry markets
- restaurants, drinking and dining establishments with less than one hundred occupancies
- day and night clubs, bars, cocktails
- aircraft hangars
- commercial parking lots and garages
- department stores, shopping malls
- Theaters and auditoriums
- concert hall and opera houses
- convention halls
- little theater, audio-visual room
- dance halls, cabarets, ballrooms
- skating rinks
- cockfighting areas
- dance halls, ballrooms
- skating rinks
- sheds
- barns
- poultry houses
- piggeries
- hatcheries
- stables
- greenhouses
- granaries
- private garages, carports
- towers and silos, smokestacks and chimneys
- swimming pools including shower and locker room
- stages, platforms and similar structures
- pelota, tennis or basketball courts
- tombs, mausoleums, niches
- fence over 1.80 m high
- steel or concrete tanks
- aviaries and aquariums and zoo structures
- banks and record vaults
- Occupant loads
- 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.
- The occupant load of any area having fixed seats shall be determined by the number of fixed seats installed.
- In computing for parking slots, a fraction of 50% and above shall be considered as one car parking slot.
- 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. The Allowable Maximum Total Gross Floor Area (TGFA) of any proposed building shall only be as allowed under this Rule
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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)