Design Journal Entry - Module 9

Your Design Journal entries this week should highlight your design thinking and process in modeling:

• your plumbing system elements
• My restrooms are stacked up 4 stories
• I added 3 toilets and 2 lavatories on each floor
• The washrooms are located back to back so I was able to put all of the plumbing in a gap between the two walls in
• your piping systems
• I created trunk lines for hot water, cold water, sanitary, greywater collection and greywater supply
• The hot and cold water lines connected into the lavatories at a higher elevation
• The greywater supply and reuse lines were located farther underground at a 1/4 inch slope per foot
• The greywater collection line was connected to the sanitary system the lavatories
• The greywater supply line was connected to the cold water system for the toilets
• any special plumbing system challenges that you encountered and how you overcame them
• The biggest challenges were connecting the lines in a way that made sense and where they weren’t obstructing one another. This took a lot of trial and error. Creating the greywater reuse system also took some time at first, but once it was all set up connecting it in actually was quite simple.
• I also had an issue where one toilet did not copy up all the levels so I had to manually go in and add it and reconnect the lines which was quite tedious, but I eventually completed.