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Module 18 · Real Project: Commercial Office Restroom Core

Real Project: Commercial Office Restroom Core

A 10-story stacked restroom core case study — per-floor fixture unit takeoff, a domestic water riser read off the flushometer Hunter's Curve, DWV stacks split by restroom instead of by floor zone, and a worked water-conservation savings calculation from low-flow fixture selection.

The project brief: a 10-story office building stacks an identical men's/women's restroom core on every floor. It's the plumbing engineer's cleanest sizing problem and easiest trap — every floor's fixture count is identical, but a straight per-floor multiply only stays valid through the fixture unit takeoff itself, not through Hunter's Curve or stack diameter selection.

This module walks the whole design the way a real plumbing engineer would: the flush-valve fixture unit takeoff per floor and building-wide, a riser sized off the flushometer demand curve that only changes size where cumulative demand crosses a capacity threshold, a men's-stack/women's-stack DWV split instead of one oversized single stack, and a worked gallons-per-day comparison showing what WaterSense fixture selection actually saves. The full worked numbers, complete bill of materials, and finished design reasoning are part of the unlocked module below.

Free related reading in this studio
→ Fixture Unit Counter (WSFU & DFU)→ Pipe Sizing Calculator (IPC)→ Fixture Units vs. Flow Rate (GPM)→ Vent Stack vs. Stack Vent

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