In this video you will see how, with our plumbing design software, the designing of the whole plumbing water system for a residential complex with 4 multi-family buildings is performed.
Among other aspects, we show you the enhancements incorporated into the importing process of entities contained in drawing files so as to be converted easily to PLUMBER’S water networks.
In this example, when we talk about the “whole” plumbing water system design, think that PLUMBER will perform for you:
- The automatic calculation of diameters and the required pressure at the source node in the typical water network in the project. This water network corresponds to one residential unit within the multi-family building.
In the video’s example, there are 4 residential units per building’s floor and each building has 4 similar levels.
In this case, as all the residential units have the same sanitary areas distribution, it is valid to accept that the corresponding water networks will be similar. Thus it’s only required that you determine which one is the furthest located from the water supply point (plumbing riser) at the building’s level, so as to be used as the “Typical water network” in your project.
With PLUMBER it’s only necessary to create one typical water network and then assign it to the Plumbing riser’s nodes in order to model the whole building’s water distribution system.
- The automatic calculation of diameters and the minimum required pressure at the Plumbing Riser’s source node
You will see that as the 4 complex’s buildings are similar, you only need to create one Plumbing Riser within the PLUMBER’S project, which, of course, we have named as “Typical.”
At each Plumbing Riser’s node, we have associated 4 typical water networks (calculated and designed in the above step) in order to perform its design.
Of course, that PLUMBER will assign as the design pressure the one previously calculated for the Typical Water Network.
- The automatic calculation of diameters and the minimum required pressure and flow to be supplied by the Complex’s Pumping System.
This is one of the new features in PLUMBER 3.0
It is available now what we have called the “Plumbing Risers Plan” water network, which will allow you to create the interior water distribution system from a source node (where the pumping system will be connected) to every building’s Plumbing Riser within the Project.
It is supposed that, in a water network of this type, the end nodes of each pipe section will have associated some of the Plumbing Risers available in your project.
Thus, in our example, you will see that a simple water network is created, with 4 extreme nodes and, on each, a typical Plumbing Riser (defined in the previous step) is assigned.
Thus you can perform the system’s hydraulic design in less than 45 minutes. It just remains to perform from PLUMBER:
- The Typical Water Network and the Plumbing Risers Plan Isometrics view generation.
- Visualize and generate the pressures and diameters (with the fixture units distribution) calculation tables.
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Visualize and generate the Bill of Materials: by water network, by Plumbing Riser and, most importantly, for the whole project, where will be included for this specific example the fittings, fixtures, and pipes required for building:
- 64 water networks for the total residential units (remember: 4 buildings x 4 residential units per floor x 4 stories per building = 64).
- 4 Typical Plumbing Risers (one per building)
- The complex’s interior supplying water network (to supply each building’s riser).
Thus, you have at least 80% of the job done! Everything is ready to be customized to your project’s office format and then to be delivered to your client.