Function Hall Specifications

Design Live Load

The design live load of the building shall be in accordance with all the requirements of the
National Building Code of the Philippines under the Presidential Decree No. 1096. Section 701,
the Occupancy Classified section suggests that an assembly building either falls under Group H
(Assembly other than Group I) as any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of
less than 1000 in the building (Division 1) or Group I occupancies as any assembly building with
a stage and an occupant load of 1000 or more in the building. Section 703 puts forward that
buildings of mixed occupancy shall be subjected to the most restrictive requirement pertaining to
any type of occupancy found therein.

Minimum and Maximum Ceiling Height

The Revised National Building Code of the Philippines, Section 805(Ceiling Heights) and
Section 3.01.09(Requirements for group Occupancies), requires that low rise buildings (from 1 -
5 storeys i.e., 4.0 m to 16.0 m, inclusive of an average 1.0 m provision for parapet wall or roof
apex), with habitable rooms provided with artificial ventilation shall have ceiling heights not less
than 2.7 meters measured from the floor to the ceiling and that all subsequent storeys must have
a typical head-room clearance at least 2.10 meters above the finished floor and second storey
height of 2.40 meters. Ceiling heights in the aforementioned rooms with natural ventilation must
be at least 2.70 meters.