Building Occupancies, Height, Setbacks, and Parking - Quick Quiz

This set covers occupancy group classifications, division examples, height and setback rules, firewalls/abutments, sidewalk standards, parking requirements, toilet calculations, and related structural provisions from the notes.

What is Group A occupancy as described in the notes?

Residential Dwellings; Group A occupancies shall be dwellings.

What types are included in Group B occupancy?

Residentials, Hotels and Apartments; includes boarding or lodging houses, hotels, apartment buildings, row houses, convents, monasteries, and similar buildings each of which accommodates more than ten persons.

What does Group C occupancy cover?

Education and Recreation; buildings used for school or day-care purposes, involving instruction or recreation, not classified in Group I, Division 1 or 2, or Group H.

What is Group D occupancy?

Institutional."

What is Group E occupancy?

Business and Mercantile.

What is Group F occupancy?

Industrial; includes ice plants, power plants, pumping plants, cold storage, creameries, factories and workshops using incombustible and non-explosive materials, and storage/sale rooms for such materials.

What is Group G occupancy?

Storage and Hazardous.

What is Group H occupancy?

Assembly Other Than Group I; assemblies not classified under Group I.

What is Group I occupancy?

Assembly occupancy with an occupant load of 1000 or more.

What is Group J occupancy?

Accessory; occupancies that support the principal occupancy.

What is Division 1 example under the gasoline-related classification given in the notes?

Gasoline filling and service stations, storage garages, and boot storage structures where work is limited to exchange of parts and maintenance with no open flame, welding, or highly flammable liquids.

From where is building height measured according to the notes?

From the highest adjoining sidewalk or ground level.

What is the maximum vertical difference allowed between the lowest adjacent surface and the highest adjoining sidewalk or ground?

3 meters.

What is the total setback at ground level and its composition?

8.0 meters total; 3.0 meters for the front yard and 5.0 meters for parking needs; subsequent floors require a minimum 3.0-meter setback.

Which side setback is mandatory?

A mandatory setback on one side; a second side setback is optional.

What is stated about firewalls and abutments?

Firewalls must meet fire-resistive ratings; prohibited in low-density R-1; abutments (with perforated blocks) are allowed; openings in firewalls must be protected and sealed.

What is the minimum sidewalk width required?

1.20 meters.

What is the maximum cross slope allowed for sidewalks?

1%.

What is the maximum running slope allowed for sidewalks?

Not to exceed 5%.

What is the required vertical clearance above sidewalks under balconies or marquees?

2.70 to 3.00 meters.

What are the typical parking requirements for residential buildings?

Minimum of one parking slot per multi-family unit or per specified floor area.

What is the parking requirement for offices (example)?

One slot per 125 square meters of floor area.

What is the parking requirement for food establishments?

One slot per 30 square meters of customer area.

What is the parking requirement for assembly buildings?

One slot per 50 square meters of gross floor area.

What are typical parking slot dimensions for perpendicular/diagonal parking?

2.5 meters wide by 5.0 meters long.

What are typical parking slot dimensions for parallel parking?

2.15 meters wide by 6.0 meters long.

What is the CAAP height limit example near Manila airports?

250 meters.

if combustible, they may extend up to ____ above the prescribed height limit.

6 meters

What is the front/side/rear setback rule for road right-of-way widths of ≥30 meters?

Front 8 m, Side 5 m, Rear 5 m.

What are the setback rules for RROW widths of 25.0–29.9 meters?

Front 6 m, Side 3 m, Rear 3 m.

What are the setback rules for RROW widths of 20.0–24.9 meters?

Front 5 m, Side 3 m, Rear 3 m.

What are the setback rules for RROW widths of 10.0–19.9 meters?

Front 5 m, Side 2 m, Rear 2 m.

What are the setback rules for RROW widths less than 10 meters?

Front 5 m, Side 2 m, Rear 2 m.

What minimum front yard is required in certain special cases like Open Market or Medium Cost Housing projects?

A minimum front yard of 1.50 meters must be left open.

What is allowed about foundations encroaching into sidewalks?

50 cm width and 60 cm depth

What is required for pedestrian crossings regarding curbs?

Dropped curbs with slopes not steeper than 1:12 and minimum widths of 0.90 meters.

Front 4.5 m, Side 2 m, Rear 2 m.

R – 1

Front 3 m, Side 2 m, Rear 2 m.

R - 2 BASIC

Front 8 m, Side 2 m, Rear 2 m.

R - 2 MAXIMUM

Front 3 m

R - 3 BASIC

Front 8 m, Side 2 m, Rear 2 m.

R - 3 MAXIMUM

Front 4.5 m, Side 2 m, Rear 2 m.

R - 4

Front 6 m, Side 3 m, Rear 3 m.

R - 5

up to 3 floors or 10 meters

R-1 and basic R-2

up to 5 floors or 15 meters

Maximum R-2

3 floors or 10 meters

R-3 basic

up to 12 floors or 36 meters

R-3 maximum

3 floors or 10 meters

R-4

12 to 18 floors or 36 to 54 meters

R-5

3 to 5 floors or 10 to 15 meters

C-1

6 floors or 18 meters

C-2

16 to 60 floors or 48 to 180 meters

C-3

15 meters

I-1

21 meters

I-2

27 meters

I-3

15 meters

Institutional Buildings

30 meters

Cultural Buildings

Mental hospitals, mental sanitaria, jails, prisons, reformatories, and buildings where personal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained.

D-1

Nurseries for full-time care of children under kindergarten age, hospitals, sanitaria, nursing homes with non-ambulatory patients, and similar buildings each accommodating more than five persons

D-2

Nursing homes for ambulatory patients, homes for children of kindergarten age or over, each accommodating more than five persons: Provided, that Group D Occupancies shall not include buildings used only for private or family group dwelling purposes.

D-3

Gasoline filling and service stations, storage garages and boot storage structures where no work is done except exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame, welding, or the use of highly flammable liquids.

E-1

Wholesale and retail stores, office buildings, drinking and dining establishments having an occupant load of less than one hundred persons, printing plants, police and fire stations, factories and workshops using not highly flammable or combustible materials and paint stores without bulk handlings.

E-2

Aircraft hangars and open parking garage with no repair work is done except exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame, welding or the use of highly flammable liquids.

E-3

Storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable material.

G-1

Storage and handling of flammable materials, dry cleaning plants using flammable liquids; paint stores with bulk handling, paint shops and spray painting rooms.

G-2

Wood working establishments, planning mills and box factories, shops, factories where loose combustible fibers or dust are manufactured, processed or generated; warehouses where highly combustible material is stored.

G-3

Repair garages.

G-4

Aircraft repair hangers.

G-5

Any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of less than 1000 in the building.

H-1

Any assembly building without stage and having an occupant load of 300 or more in the building.

H-2

Any assembly building without a stage and having an occupant load of less than 300 in the building.

H-3

Stadia, reviewing stands, amusement park structures not included within Group I or in Division 1, 2, and 3 of this Group.

H-4

Private garage, carports, sheds and agriculture buildings.

J-1

Fences over 1.80 meters high, tanks, and towers.

J-2