2-4 CHAPTER 2— Winimum Uesign Loads sictioNan GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. 2014 Scope ‘This chapter provides minimum design load requirements for the desig uf Luildings, towers and other vertical “structures. Loads and appropriate land combinations which have been developed to be used together for strength design and allowable stress design are set forth ‘Association uf Stuuiural Engineers of the Philippines. ine. (ASEP) SECTION 202° (DERINITIONS. ‘he following terms are defiued for use in this section: ACCESS FLOOR SYSTFM is an assembly consisting of | panels mounted on pedestals to provide an under-floor space for the installation of mechanical, electrical, commmunication or similar systems or to serve as an airs supply or return-air plenum, AGRICULTURAL BUILDING is 2 steiotnee designed and constructed to house farm implements, hay, grain, poultry. livestock or other horticultural products. ‘The structure shall not be a place of human habitation or a place of employment where agricultural produets are processed, treated, or packaged, nor shall it Le w place used by the public AT.LOWARLESTRESS DESIGN (ASD) is a method of proportioning and designing structural members such that elastically computed stresses produced in the members by nominal loads do not exceed specified allowable sucsses (also called working sticss design). ASSEMBLY BUTLDING is a building or portion of a building for the gathering together of 50 or more persons for such purposes as deliberation, education, instruction, ‘worship, entertainment, amusement, drinking or dining, oF awaiting transportation. AWNING io en architectural projeotinn that provides weather protection, identity, or decoration and is wholly supported by the building to which it is attached. BALCONY, EXTERIOR, is an exterior floor system projecting tfom and supporied by a stiwetuse without ‘udditional independent supports RASE js the level at which the earthquake motions are considered to be imparted to the structure or the level at which the structure, as a dynamic vibrator, is supported. BASE SHEAR is the (otal design lateral foree or shear at Use Vase of a structure. 4 ASIC WIND SPEED is a three-second gust speed at 10 m above the ground in Exposure C (see Section 207A.7.3) 1s determined in accordance with Section 207A.5.) and associated with an annual probability of 0.02, (ie. 30-year ‘mean recucreuee interval). BEARING WALL SYSTEM is a structural system that does not have a complete vertical load-carrying space frame. See Section 208.4.6.1