Planning glossary
Stack
A primarily vertical service route or grouped set of vertically aligned elements, often used for plumbing or building circulation context.
Example
Aligning bathrooms can reserve a plausible stack zone without designing drainage or venting.
Related concepts
Manifold
A distribution point with individual branches to multiple endpoints, used in some plumbing and mechanical systems.
Read definitionRoute reachability
Whether an endpoint can be reached from a source through enabled connections in a modeled network.
Read definitionFloor-to-floor height
The vertical distance from one finished-floor reference elevation to the next.
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