NBC RULE 7 - CLASSIFICATION AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF BUILDINGS

BY USE OR OCCUPANCY

GROUP A - RESIDENTIAL (DWELLINGS) GROUP C - EDUCATION AND RECREATION

(INSTITUTIONAL)
• Division A-1 (Residential buildings for
exclusive use of single family occupants) • Division C-I
1. Indigenous family dwelling units 1. Amusement halls and parlors
2. Single-detached units 2. Massage and sauna parlors
3. School or company staff housing 3. Health studios and reducing salons
4. Church rectories 4. Billiard halls, pool rooms, bowling alleys
5. Single family dwellings and golf club
6. Churches or similar places of worship 5. Dancing schools, disco parks, dance and
7. Community facilities and social centers amusement hall
8. Parks, playgrounds, pocket parks, 6. gymnasia, pelota courts and sports
parkways, promenades and playlots complex
9. Clubhouses and recreational uses such as
golf courses, tennis courts operated by the • Division C-2
government or private individuals as 1. Educational institutions like schools,
membership organizations for the benefit colleges, universities, vocational,
of their members, families and guests. seminaries, convents, including school
auditoriums, gymnasia, reviewing stands,
• Division A-2 (Residential buildings for the little theaters, concert halls, opera houses
exclusive use of non-leasing occupants not 2. Seminar/workshop facilities
3. Training centers/facilities
exceeding 10 persons)
4. Libraries, museums, exhibition halls and art
1. Single-attached or duplex or townhouse, galleries
each privately owned 5. Civic centers, clubhouses, lodges,
2. School dormitories (on-campus) community centers
3. Convents and monasteries 6. Churches, mosque, temples, shrines,
4. Military or pocket barracks chapels and similar places of worship
5. All uses in Division A-1 7. Civic or government centers
6. Pre-schools, elementary and high schools 8. Other types of government buildings
with not more than 16 classrooms
7. Outpatient clinics, family planning clinics, GROUP D - GOVERNMENT AND HEALTH
lying-in clinics, diagnostic clinics, medical SERVICES (INSTITUTIONAL)
and clinical laboratories
8. Branch library and museum • Division D-I (Institutional where personal
9. Steam/dry cleaning outlets liberties of inmates are restrained or
10. Party needs and accessories quarters of those rendering public
assistance and maintaining peace and
GROUP B - (RESIDENTIAL: HOTELS AND order)
APARTMENTS)
1. Mental hospitals, sanitaria and mental
• Division B-1 asylums
1. all uses in Divisions A-1 and A-2 2. Police and fire stations, guard houses
2. Leased single detached dwelling unit, 3. Jails, prisons, reformatories and
cottage with more than one independent correctional institutions
unit and duplexes 4. Rehabilitation centers
3. boarding and lodging houses 5. Leprosaria and quarantine station
4. multiple housing units for lease or for sale
5. townhouses, each privately owned • Division D-2 (Institutional buildings for
6. boarding houses health care)
7. accessories, rowhouses, townhouses,
tenements and apartments 1. Hospitals, sanitaria and homes for the aged
8. multiple privately-owned condominium 2. Nurseries for children of kindergarten age
9. hotels, motels, inns, pension houses and or non-ambulatory patients
apartels accommodating more than 5 persons
10. private or off-campus dormitories
11. elementary schools and highschools not • Division D-3 (Institutional for ambulatory
more than 20 classrooms patients or children over kindergarten age)

1. Nursing homes for ambulatory patients

2. School and home for children over
kindergarten age
3. Orphanages
NBC RULE 7 - CLASSIFICATION AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF BUILDINGS
BY USE OR OCCUPANCY

GROUP E - BUSINESS AND MERCANTILE GROUP G - (STORAGE AND HAZARDOUS

(COMMERCIAL) INDUSTRIAL (POLLUTIVE/NON-HAZARDOUS
INDUSTRIES AND POLLUTIVE/HAZARDOUS
• Division E-I (Business and mercantile INDUSTRIES ONLY)
where no work is done except change of
parts and maintenance requiring no open • Division G-1 (Medium Industrial which
flames, welding or use of highly flammable shall include storage and handling of
liquids) hazardous and highly flammable materials)

1. All uses in Division B-1 • Division G-2 (Medium Industrial buildings

2. Gasoline filling and station for storage and handling of flammable
3. Storage garage and boat storage materials)
4. Commercial garage and parking buildings,
display for cars, tractors, etc. • Division G-3 (Medium Industrial buildings
5. Bus and railways depots and terminals and for wood working activities, paper
offices cardboard manufacturers, textile and
6. Port facilities garment factories)
7. Airports and heliport facilities
8. All other types of transportation complexes • Division G-4 (Medium Industrial, for repair
9. All other types of large complexes for garages and engine manufacture)
public services
10. Pawnshops, money shops, photo and • Division G-5 (Medium Industrial for
portrait studios, shoeshine/repair stands, aircraft facilities)
retail drugstores, tailoring and dress shops
11. Bakeshops and bakery goods stores GROUP H - ASSEMBLY FOR LESS THAN 1,000
12. Construction supplies and building (CULTURAL AND/OR RECREATIONAL)
materials such as electrical and electronic
stores, plumbing supply stores
• Division H-1 (Recreational, which are
assembly buildings with stage and having
• Division E-2 (Business and mercantile in an occupant load of less than 1,000.
nature)
1. Theaters and auditoriums
1. Wholesale and retail stores 2. Concert hall and opera houses
2. Shopping centers, malls and supermarkets 3. Convention halls
3. Wet and dry markets 4. Little theater, audio-visual room
4. Restaurants, drinking and dining
establishments with less than one hundred
• Division H-2 (Recreational which are
occupancies
assembly buildings with stage and having
5. Day and night clubs, bars, cocktails
an occupant load of 300 or more)
• Division E-3 (Business and mercantile 1. Dance halls, cabarets, ballrooms
where no repair work is done except 2. Skating rinks
exchange of parts and maintenance 3. Cockfighting areas
requiring no open flames, welding or use of
highly flammable liquid)
• Division H-3 (Recreational which are
assembly buildings with stage and having
1. aircraft hangars
an occupant load of less than 300)
2. commercial parking lots and garages
3. department stores, shopping malls
1. Dance halls, ballrooms
2. Skating rinks
GROUP F - INDUSTRIAL (NON-POLLUTIVE/
NON-HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES AND
NON-POLLUTIVE/HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES)

• Division F-1 (Light industrial)

1. Ice plants, power plants, pumping plants

2. Cold storage, and creameries
3. Factories and workshops using
incombustible and non-explosive
materials, and
4. Storage and sale rooms for incombustible
and nonexplosive materials.
NBC RULE 7 - CLASSIFICATION AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF BUILDINGS
BY USE OR OCCUPANCY

GROUP I – ASSEMBLY OCCUPANT LOAD

1000 OR MORE

• Division I-1 (Recreational, Assembly

Buildings with stage and an occupant load
of 1,000 or more in the building)

1. Colisea and sports complexes

2. Theaters and convention centers
3. Concert halls and open houses
4. Convention centers

GROUP J – ACCESSORY

• Division J-1 (Agricultural structures)

1. sheds
2. barns
3. poultry houses
4. piggeries
5. hatcheries
6. stables
7. greenhouses
8. granaries

• Division J-2 (Accessory)

1. private garages, carports

2. towers and silos, smokestacks and
chimneys
3. swimming pools including shower and
locker room
4. stages, platforms and similar structures
5. pelota, tennis or basketball courts
6. tombs, mausoleums, niches
7. fence over 1.80 m high
8. steel or concrete tanks
9. aviaries and aquariums and zoo structures
10. banks and record vaults