Caracterización de la red de suministro de agua potable (RSAP) respecto a la distribución arquitectónica de edificaciones para uso residencial

Abstract

The drinking-water supply is essential for the design of a building; this resource is vital to satisfy the basic needs of a population. As time goes by, the design of buildings changes due to the modernization of houses and constant engineering advances. For this reason, this research presents a detailed analysis of the relationship between architecture and RSAP in buildings for residential use, based on the “Clave Tundama” methodology, which allows the analysis of variables such as the hydraulic calculation of the critical path, the hydropneumatic equipment, the supply system and the location and type of tank.

For this, it was necessary to trace twenty (20) buildings with the help of AutoCAD Software, in order to estimate qualitative and quantitative factors of the RSAP. Mainly, a hydraulic analysis was carried out to identify the worst scenario of energy losses among the existing sections, which comprise hot and cold water. In addition, a categorization was assigned to each of the dwellings, in order to encompass their qualitative characteristics and identify the relationship between each architecture.

With this, the characterization of the RSAP was achieved, providing a better service to the residents; from a categorization of qualitative variables determining the system, indicating that the architectural distribution is the one who determines when the worst case of total system losses is generated (critical path). Similarly, from the consumption units, different ranges were estimated, which identify variables such as the diameter according to the topological needs of the network, the critical device and the number of pumps and hydroaccumulators in the system.