Estimation of Number of Toilets Requirement in Public Places

Abstract

In this dissertation determination of number of toilets in public places is studied in different types of location of public places such as bus terminals, school/college, and hospitals. This software was developed which can project the number of toilets in different public location as required by the user by providing the simple data asked by the program. This software was developed with the help of Microsoft Visual Studio which is an advance windows software development tool. In the Microsoft Visual Studio, environment of Vb.NET was followed. This study was carried out in bus terminals, hospital and school/college from which peak hour for defecator and Urinates on these location were found out. Also peak factor in this hour was calculated. Time for urinating separately for male and female was also calculated from the collected data. In this study time for urinating male was found to be 30 seconds and for female was 50 seconds whereas defecating time for male and female was 7 minute. Different peak factor according to location was found. For bus terminal with respect to defecator male peak factor was found to be 1.35 and for female was 1.18 and in case of urinates 1.34 was for male and 1.43 was for female. For hospital with respect to defecator male peak factor was 2.23 and for female was 2.24 and in case of urinates 1.86 was for male and 1.84 was for female. With the help of program developed number of toilet required for the survey location Koteshwor public toilets were 6 urinals for male and existing were 5, 4 water closets for male and existing were 5, and 6 water closets for female whereas existing werw 6 in this case. And for Pulchowk college, F- Block required number of urinals were 28 and existing were 31, which is enough numbers, required number of water closets form the program and existing both were 3 and in case of female water closets required number from program were 8 but the existing number of toilets were only 2.