1, provides NAVFACENGCOM criteria for designing, specifying, inspecting, and accepting plumbing systems for various naval shore facilities.

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MIL-HDBK-1003/1

Section 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Scope. This military handbook, MIL-HDBK-1003/1, provides NAVFACENGCOM criteria for designing, specifying, inspecting, and accepting plumbing systems for various naval shore facilities. These include the design of the following systems within the building and out to a distance of 5 feet outside the building: water supply and distribution, fixtures and equipment, drainage (sanitary and storm), and special

gases (medical and oxygen).

1.2 Background. Lack of a nation-wide plumbing code familiar to Navy engineers, architect and engineer (A/E) consultants, Navy Construction representatives (resident officers in charge of construction (ROICCs)), and construction contractors forced the Navy to issue Navy-unique criteria, Design Manual (DM) 3.01, Plumbing Systems (DM 3.01), to

provide uniform Naval shore facilities.

1.2.1 Model Code Organizations. Three major voluntary consensus building code organizations jointly organized the International Code Council™ (ICC), which issued the IPC. They are the Building Officials and Code Administrators International (BOCA)®; International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO)®; and the Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI)®.

1.2.2 Public Law 104-113. Public Law 104-113, the

National Technology Transfer Act of 1995, requires the Navy to

adopt voluntary consensus standards whenever possible.

1.2.3 International Plumbing Code©. The availability of the IPC allows the Navy to comply with Public Law 104-113 by adopting the IPC. Sufficient familiarity to the Architects and Engineers, and the Construction Contractor is assured by

the broad usage of the IPC and the prior plumbing codes of the three code organizations of the ICC.

1.3 Purpose. This plumbing criteria is developed to define facilities engineering and design technology, functional and operational requirements, quality, and health and safety for military and civilian personnel. Building codes establish minimum construction safety requirements;