Simulation Design and Analysis for Water Network Inside Building Using Elite(S-Pipe) Software

Abstract

Humanity is looking for a way to face the problems of lack of habitable land, and the vertical housing method and multi-story buildings was the most appropriate solution for housing a large number of residents in the same space. In this study, the work was to analyze the existing design and re-design for the water supply network inside the building in Bismayah city consists of multi-story buildings of 10 floors, and each floor consists of 12 apartments, 100,000 housing units for the whole city. The water supply network inside the buildings is the only source of water for the residents in the city for drinking and use in various daily activities, taking care of the design of this network guarantees the success of the city. The results showed that the riser pipe in the water supply network inside the building had a diameter range from (3 to 1.5) inches, while the redesign was done by manual calculations and Elite(S-Pipe) software according to the International Plumbing Code 2021. The pipe diameters ranged from (2 to 1) inch, also the main horizontal pipe feeding the riser pipes in the network has a diameter of (4) inches, while the redesign showed the pipe with a graduated diameter from (3 to 2) inches. In general, the study showed that the used diameters are larger than the designed diameters according to the International Plumbing Code 2021, which will negatively affect the performance of the water supply network inside the buildings, in addition to increasing the cost of the network.