Fixture results
Group uses into fixture lines, read the four result tables, check what the drawings provide, and export the summary sheet.
The Results tab turns the occupant loads into required fixtures. The Fixture lines tab decides which fixture row each use counts under.
The counts are planning aids. Check them against your adopted code and local amendments, and have them verified by a licensed professional.
Fixture lines #
Each use in an occupancy group starts on its own line, using the group's usual fixture row. Storage-type uses, like accessory storage and mechanical rooms, start on the storage row. Lines you haven't changed are marked automatic.
On the Fixture lines tab, for each line:
- Line: the bold name and the italic description, as they print on the sheet.
- Fixture row: the row of the fixture table the line uses. The group's own rows come first, then rows from other occupancies.
- Uses on this line: pick → combine with another line to add a use's occupants to that line before the ratio applies, or → its own line to split it back out.
- Service sinks: leave it blank for the code minimum per group, or type the number you're placing.
Each line applies its fixture row's ratios on its own, tiers included.
How the fixtures are counted #
- Each use's occupants are split by the Male percent. Each half rounds up.
- Uses on the same line add together.
- Each line divides by its row's ratios: water closets and lavatories per sex, drinking fountains and showers on the total.
- Within an occupancy group, the fractions add up and round up once.
- The building total adds the groups' rounded subtotals, shown like "(8+2) 10".
The result tables #
- Plumbing fixture counts: each group's lines with water closets and lavatories (male and female), drinking fountains, service sinks and showers, then each group's subtotal and the SUMMARY row of totals required.
- Plumbing fixture sub-calculations: the occupants on each line, split by sex.
- Notes: the method in plain words with code section cites, plus every correction you made.
- Occupancy summary: area, load factor and occupant load for each use.
- Occupancy calculations: the same, room by room.
A cell marked with a dot is transcribed and not yet checked against the book. A cell marked ◆ was corrected in this count. Click a cell in the fixture counts table to correct it; see Code tables.
Each table has a Copy button. Paste the copy into Excel or a Revit schedule.
Check what the drawings provide #
Type the fixtures your drawings show in the TOTAL PROVIDED row. The male water closet cell takes urinals (U) and water closets (WC) separately. Each cell is underlined green when it meets the requirement and red when it falls short.
The flags warn when urinals are more than half of the male water closets, so you can check the substitution limit.
Export the summary sheet #
Open PDF ▾:
- Summary sheet, in Letter 11×8.5, Tabloid 17×11 or ARCH D 36×24: the tables and notes as a vector PDF, ready to place on a drawing sheet or print. Untick Include the room-by-room table to leave the occupancy calculations out.
- Print this screen: prints the Results tab through your browser.
When code values in the count aren't verified yet, the sheet's footer says so.