Engineering discipline

Plumbing & Fire Protection

Water supply and drainage sizing, fixture loading, pumping and fire protection water systems.

7 topics in this discipline

Plumbing & Fire Calculate a value

Why drainage is sized by a loading unit, and reading the code table to get the building drain.

Plumbing & Fire Calculate a value

Water supply fixture units converted to a probable peak demand, and the service size that follows.

Plumbing & Fire Diagnose a problem

Converting drainage area and rainfall intensity into inflow, then applying the margin a real storm will need.

Plumbing & Fire Calculate a value

Converting residents into daily flow, applying the required retention time and the sediment allowance.

Environmental Calculate a value

Quantifying the reusable fraction of household wastewater and the storage it needs.

Civil & Structural Understand a concept

The difference between a screening number and a compliant design, and where professional review genuinely has to enter.

Civil & Structural Understand a concept

The conversions and dimension slips that produce plausible-looking but wrong answers, and how to catch them.