4.8 CHAPTER 1 ~ General Requirements FION i CLASSIFICATION OF STRUCTURES 103.1 Nature of Occupancy Buildings and other structures shall be classified, based on the nature of occupancy, according to Table 103-1 for purposes of applying wind and earthquake loads in Chapter 2. Each building ot other structures shall be assigned to the highest applicable occupancy category or categories. ‘Assignment of the same structure to multiple occupancy ‘categories based on use and the type of loading condition being evaluated (c.g. wind or seismic) shall be permissible. When buildings or other structures have multiple uses (occupancies) the relationship between the uses of various parts of the building or other structure and the independence of the structural system for those. various parts shall be examined. The classification for each independent structural system of a multiple-use building ot ‘other structure shall be that of the highest usage group in any part of the building or other structure that is dependent fon that basie structural system, ‘Table 103-1 Occupaney Category OCCUPANCY | OCCURANCY OR FUNCTION OF CATEGORY _| STRUCTURE COcoupaneles having surgery and emergency reameat ares, Fire on police sation Garages and sholiare For omergeny vehicles and merge ata, ‘Surette and sheers in emergency proparsiness Avion con towers Seustures and equipment in conmaication fears and other Files rogue for emergency 1 esseatia | psponse ss Facies Foeilites for standby power-generating equipment for Category sete, “Tanks or ar stuctres contining housing oF oppoting water rather re-sappression atrial fr cipriat required for the. protection of {Category oe, TV and V stewie Pablieseioa uildings. Hospi, Designated evacuation center and Power and communication ansmission ines Ocsupunsis and ster housing or supporing toxic or explosive comizals or subsiness, M1 Hazardous Thales, | Non-tuilding strwetwes storing, supporting or Containing quaniies of lowe oF explesive ssbstonces ‘Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, Inc. (ASEP)Table 103-1 (cont’d)Occupancy Category ‘OCCUPANCY CATEGORY, ‘OCCUPANCY OR FUNCTION OF STRUCTURE, UN Speci Oceupaney Structures Buildings wid) an assembiy room with an ‘occupant eapaciy of 1,000 or more Educational uikings such 26 museums, Tears, aioe wily 9 copy of 30) or more aecpanis Bulg: used foe college or aul edveation with capacity oF $00 oF more ossupants Insivtinal buildings with $0 of more Incspacitued patients, Gu et secluded in Category Ment hospitals, saitaiuns, jis prisons tnd other lings hee personal Herts inmates are sniaty retina CChurees, Mosques, and ther Religion Facies, All structures with an occupaney of 8,000 oe ore persons, Stretures and equiprent in power-generating stations, another pubic uly faeiltes sat ‘nluded in Category Tor Category Il and quired for contined operation, WV Standard Occupancy Structures All structures housing occupancies or havingfanetionsnotlistedioCategory |, 11 olflandCategory, Y. Miscstancous Stractares Privatewarages.carpors shedsand fences ‘over | Smhigh CHAPTER 1 - Generel Requirement 1-7 104.1 Strength Requirement Buildings, towers ond other vertical structures and all portions thereof shall be designed and constructed to sustain, within the limitations specified in this code, all loads set forth in Chapter 2 and elsewhere in this code, combined in aceordance with Section 203, Design shall be in accordance with Strength Design, Load and Resistance Factor Design and Allowable Stength Design methods, as permitted by the applicable material chapters. 104.2 Serviceability Requirement 1042.1 General ‘Structural systems and members thereof shall be designed to have adequate stiffness to limit deflections, lateral drifts, vibration, or any other deformations that adversely affect the intended use and performance of buildings, towers and. ‘other vertical structures. The design shall also consider durability, resistance to exposure to weather or aggressive environment, crack control, and other conditions that affect the intended use and performance of buildings, towers and other vertical structures, 1043 Analysis, Any system or method of construction to be used shall be based on a rational analysis in accordance with well established principles of mechanics that take into account equilibrium, general stability, geometric compatibility and both short-term and long-term material properties. Members that tend to accumulate residual. deformations ‘under repeated service loads shall have included in their analysis the added eccentricities expected to occur during ticir service life. Such analysis shall result in a system that provides a complete load path capable of transferring all loads and forces fiom their point of origin to the load. resisting elements. The analysis shal include, but not be limited “to, the provisions of Sections "1043.1 through }04.3.3, 104.3.1 Stability against Overturning Every structure shall be designed to resist the overturning effects caused by the lateral forces specified with adequate Factor of Salety (FOS). See Section 206.6 for retaining walls, Section 207 for wind loading and Section 208 for earthquake loading, National Structural Code of the Philippines Volume I, 7th Edition, 2015,BOUNDARY ELEMENT js an element at edges of ‘openings or at perimeters of shear walls or diaphragms, BRACED FRAME is essentially a vertical russ system of the concentric or eccentric type that is provided to resist, lateral forces. BUILDING FRAME SYSTEM is essentially « complete space frame that provides support for gravity loads. See Section 208.4.6.2 BRACED WALL LINE is a series of braced wall panels ina single storey that meets the requirements of Section 620.10. BRACED WALL PANEL is a section of wall braced in accordance with Section 620.10.3. BUILDING, ENCLOSED is a building that does not comply with the requirements for open or partially «enclosed buildings. BUILDING ENVELOPE refers to cladding, roofing, exterior wall, glazing, door assemblies, window assemblies, skylight assemblies, and other components ‘enclosing the building, BUILDING, FLEXIBLE refers to slender buildings that have a fundamental natural frequency less than 1,0 Hz, BUILDING, LOW-RISE is an enclosed or partially enclosed building that complies with the following conditions: 1. Mean roof height, h, less than or equal to 18m, and 2, Mean roof height, , does not exceed least horizontal dimension, BUILDING, OPEN refers to a building having each wall at least 80 percent open. This condition is expressed for each wall by the equation A, > 0.8A,, See symbols and notations. BUILDING, PARTIALLY ENCLOSED is a building that complies with both of the following conditions: L the total area of openings in a wall that receives Dositive external pressure exceeds the sum of the areas. of openings in the balance of the building envelope (valls and roof) by more than 10%; and The total area of openings in a wall that receives positive external pressure exceeds 0.5 m? or 1 percent of the area of that wall, whichever is smaller, and the CHAPTER 2~Minimum Design Loads 2.5 percentage of openings in the balance of the building envelope does not exceed 20 percent ‘These conditions are expressed by the following equations: 1. Ay > 1.104, 2, Ay > smaller of (0.5 m? or 0.014,) 3. Agi/Ay $0.20 See symbols and notations. BUILDING OR OTHER STRUCTURE, REGULAR- SHAPED refers toa building or other structure having no ‘unusual geometrical irregularity in spatial form, BUILDING OR OTHER STRUCTURES, RIGID refer to @ building or other structure whose fundamental frequency is greater than or equal to 1.0 Hz. BUILDING, SIMPLE DIAPHRAGM tefers to a building in which both windward and leeward wind loads are transmitted through floor and roof diaphragms to the same vertical MWERS (e.g., no structural separations), CANTILEVERED COLUMN ELEMENT is a column element in a lateral-foree-resisting system that cantilevers from a fixed base and has minimal moment capacity at the top, with lateral forces applied essentially at the top, COLLECTOR js 2 member or element provided to transfer lateral forces from a portion of a structure to vertical elements of the lateral-force-resisting system. COMPONENT is a part or element of an architectural, electrical, mechanical or structural system, COMPONENT, EQUIPMENT is a mechanical or electrical component or element thats partof'a mechanical andor electrical system. COMPONENT, FLEXIBLE is 2 component, including its attachments, having a fundamental period greater than 0.06 s COMPONENT, RIGID is component, including its attachments, having 2 fundamental period less than ot equal t00.06s. COMPONENTS AND CLADDING refers to elements of the building envelope that do not qualify as part of the MWERS National Structural Code of the Philippines Volume 1, 7th Edition, 2015