Water demand using UPC and other approaches
Water demand using UPC and other approaches
Hello everyone,
I am calculating water supply demand for a 3B+G+9 commercial+residential building. I calculated from UPC 2015; total fixtures 5815 which translates to 650 GPM. I have been reading a lot of articles and discussions on this forum as well as other sites. But my confusion is still there,
1. What does this figure of 650gpm calculated from UPC represent? Is this average demand of the building per minute or peak demand at any one time? does this also include diversity factor?
2. Pipe sizing and water tank sizing should be based on directly this figure 650 GPM or something else has to be done?
3. If I use average daily consumption of water per person (100 gallons per person per day), the water demand is too lower than 650 GPM. Similar is the case of using any other approach like area density or per unit dwelling quantity. Why SO MUCH difference in these approaches? Which approach should be used then? is UPC ok? safe? 650 gpm ok?????
Thanks in advance!
I am calculating water supply demand for a 3B+G+9 commercial+residential building. I calculated from UPC 2015; total fixtures 5815 which translates to 650 GPM. I have been reading a lot of articles and discussions on this forum as well as other sites. But my confusion is still there,
1. What does this figure of 650gpm calculated from UPC represent? Is this average demand of the building per minute or peak demand at any one time? does this also include diversity factor?
2. Pipe sizing and water tank sizing should be based on directly this figure 650 GPM or something else has to be done?
3. If I use average daily consumption of water per person (100 gallons per person per day), the water demand is too lower than 650 GPM. Similar is the case of using any other approach like area density or per unit dwelling quantity. Why SO MUCH difference in these approaches? Which approach should be used then? is UPC ok? safe? 650 gpm ok?????
Thanks in advance!
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