Philippine Society of Mechanical Engineers

Integrated Association of Mechanical Engineers

Orientation On The Implementation Of

Republic Act 8495
Also Known As
“Mechanical Engineering Law”
Focus: Buildings, hotels, Resorts and Condos
Operators

BY:

ANTONIO CARMELO P. TOMPAR, PME

 Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Tenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila on Monday, the twenty-eight day
of July, nineteen hundred and ninety seven

[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8495

AN ACT OF REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN THE PHILIPPINES

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the

Philippines in Congress assembled:
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b.) Mechanical equipment or machinery

Includes all prime movers such as:
 steam engines and turbines
 internal combustion engines
and gas engines and turbines
steam generators such as:
Boiler
Furnaces
 heat exchanger such as
cooling towers
 kilns and dryers
coolers and heaters
materials handling equipment such as
pumps,
cranes,
conveyors,
hoists,
elevators,
 escalators,
 mechanized dumb-waiters,
 moving ramps and walkways
heating,
 air conditioning,
 ventilating,
 Refrigeration equipment and machinery,
including
compressors and centrifugal
fans,
mechanical pollution abatement and
environmental control system;
 piping system with a working
pressure of not less than
70kpa.
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