SANITARY ENGINEERING

PRELIM SCOPE
Code: CE 308
Title: UTILITIES 2 ( Basic Mechanical & Electrical Engineering)
3 Units
3 Hour per Week
Instructor: Engr Joselito A. Leonardo, RMeE, MSIEM, SO2
 COURSE DESCRIPTION
• The course focuses on the mechanical systems, fire protection systems,
• sanitary/ plumbing systems, and acoustics in buildings. Lecture discussions
• include HVAC systems, acoustics, vertical transportation and fire protection.
• Reducing operational loads and integrating high performance energy
• systems into buildings offers solutions towards achieving a sustainable and
• secure energy future. Engineers must understand the interrelationship
• between a building and its subsystems, and need sufficient knowledge of
• building systems and design alternatives to recommend appropriate
• solutions that suit the site, climate, building type, and occupants. They must
• coordinate the work of the engineering disciplines that carry the sustainability
• concept forward through building design, construction, commissioning,
• operation and, ultimately, demolition, recycling and reuse.
 COURSE OUTCOMES
• Following are the course competencies:
1. Building Plumbing Systems.
a. Name, describe and distinguish between sources of potable water.
b. Name, describe and distinguish between key types of and components in a plumbing
supply/distribution system.
c. Identify, describe and distinguish between types of and uses for water heaters.
d. Name and explain basic properties of fluid flow of a building plumbing system (i.e. flow rate,
velocity, pressure, pressure drop, etc.).
e. Calculate maximum probable flow rate of a building plumbing system.
f. Calculate pressure drop in lines of a building plumbing system.
g. Compute the minimum required size of distribution lines of a building plumbing system.
h. Name, describe and distinguish between methods of waste disposal in buildings.
i. Identify, describe and distinguish between key components of a drain, waste and vent (DWV)
system.
j. Compute the minimum required size of drainage and vent lines of a building plumbing system.
k. Interpret plumbing supply and DWV system design and detailing information.
 COURSE OUTCOMES CONTINUATION
2. Life Safety Systems
a. Identify, describe, distinguish between passive and active fire protection.
b. Identify, describe, distinguish and interpret fire resistance and spread fire ratings.
c. Name, describe and distinguish between types and key components of building fire
extinguishing, sprinkler, and standpipe systems, fire detection systems, and fire alarm systems.
d. Interpret building fire protection system design and detailing information.
3. Conveying Systems
a. Identify, describe and distinguish between types of conveying systems that move people and
freight vertically and horizontally (escalators, elevators, ramps, lifts, walkways).
b. Describe applications for building conveying systems that move people and freight.
c. Interpret conveying system design and detailing information.
4. Acoustical Control Systems
a. Identify, describe, and interpret ratings related to acoustical control (STC, NRC).
b. Interpret acoustical control design and detailing information.
 COURSE OUTLINE
1. Course Introduction
2. Basic Principles of Sanitary/ Plumbing Design
3. Plumbing Materials, Fittings, Fixtures
4. Building Water System and Design
5. Domestic Water Heating
6. Sanitary Drainage Systems
7. OSST/Alternative Waste Systems
8. Plumbing/Water Systems Review
9. Life Safety Systems in Buildings
10. Acoustical Control in Buildings
11. Basic Principles in Building Conveying Systems
 SANITARY ENGINEERING
Sanitary Engineering: is a branch of civil engineering concerned primarily with
the maintenance of environmental conditions (as pure water supply, waste
disposal, insect control, nuisance abatement) conducive to public health.
Sanitary engineering, also known as public health engineering or wastewater
engineering, is the application of engineering methods to improve sanitation of
human communities, primarily by providing the removal and disposal of human
waste, and in addition to the supply of safe potable water.
Traditionally a branch of civil engineering and now a subset of environmental
engineering, in the mid-19th century, the discipline concentrated on the
reduction of disease, then thought to be caused by miasma.
This was accomplished mainly by the collection and segregation of sewerage
flow in London specifically, and Great Britain generally. These and later
regulatory improvements were reported in the United States as early as 1865.

It is also concerned with environmental factors that do not have an immediate

and clearly understood effect on public health. Areas outside the purview of
sanitary engineering include aesthetic concerns such as landscaping, and
environmental conservation as it pertains to plants and animals.
Skills within this field are usually employed for the primary goal of disease
prevention within human beings by assuring a supply of healthy drinking water,
treatment of waste water, and removal of garbage from inhabited areas.

Compared to (for example) electrical engineering or mechanical engineering

which are concerned primarily with closed systems, sanitary engineering is a
very interdisciplinary field which may involve such elements as plumbing, fire
protection, hydraulics, life safety, constructive modelling, information
technology, project design, microbiology, pathology and the many divisions
within environmental science and environmental technology. In some cases,
considerations that fall within the field of social sciences and urban planning
must be factored in as well.
Although sanitary engineering may be most associated with the design of
sewers, sewage treatment and wastewater treatment facilities, recycling centers,
public landfills and other things which are constructed, the term applies equally
to a plan of action to reverse the effects of water pollution or soil contamination
in a specific area.
 PLATE 1 – SHOW AND GIVE THE USE OF
THE DIFFERENT PLUMBING TOOLS

• Please use short bond paper put a cover page and boarder line
(2.5Cm x 2Cm x 2Cm) on all pages (Text are handwritten)

• Submission will be during Prelim Examination

END OF PRELIM