scope:

The guideline VDI 2050 Part 2 offers recommendations regarding the space required for sanitary equipment rooms and for the installation of the required sanitary apparatus and systems in buildings and associated outdoor facilities. Preliminary considerations for determining the technical areas can be based on VDI 2050 Part 1 of this series of guidelines.

This guideline gives guidance on:

• structural arrangement of sanitary equipment rooms and installation areas
• minimum space requirement
• specified normal operation

The guideline applies to sanitary systems installed in, and attached to, buildings such as:

• residential buildings
• office buildings
• hotels
• school buildings
• hospitals, nursing homes
• sports facilities
• shopping centres
• cultural facilities
• car parks

The guideline does not apply to special facilities where the sanitary systems are subordinated to the specific systems of the facilities, e.g.:

• commercial facilities
• traffic facilities
• leisure facilities
• decay-in-storage facilities
• decontamination facilities
• swimming pools

The area requirement as a function of size or performance of individual components is shown by way of examples in respective graphics with a tolerance band.

Where other trades are also involved, the pertaining parts of this series of guidelines shall be observed.