A fire reserve tank schedule is the specification entry in your building's fire protection plans listing required tank capacity, material, and location, confirmed by the Bureau of Fire Protection. TankSmith supplies and installs fire reserve tanks in FRP, GRP, HDG steel, or stainless steel from 1,000 to 500,000 liters, matched to whatever your schedule specifies, installed nationwide in 5 to 14 days.
What Is a Fire Reserve Tank Schedule
A fire reserve tank schedule is the table or specification block in a building's fire protection and plumbing drawings that records the required tank capacity, material, quantity, and location for the project, the same way a door schedule or window schedule lists specifications for those items. It is used during building permit submission and fire safety evaluation so that the architect, mechanical engineer, and the Bureau of Fire Protection are working from the same confirmed numbers. Once that schedule is finalized, it becomes the reference document a supplier like TankSmith builds against: the schedule tells us the capacity and often the preferred material, and we supply, install, and commission a tank that matches it. TankSmith works across the full capacity range a Philippine fire reserve tank schedule is likely to call for, from 1,000 liters for a small commercial site up to 500,000 liters for a large industrial or institutional project. Because the schedule is project-specific rather than a fixed public table, the exact figure on your schedule will vary by occupancy classification and hazard type. What does not vary is that the tank and the pressure side supporting it need to be sized, supplied, and installed as one coordinated system, which is the part of the schedule most easily missed when tank and pump are sourced from separate suppliers.
How Fire Reserve Capacity Gets Set Before the Schedule Is Written
Before a number can be entered into a fire reserve tank schedule, it has to be determined, and in the Philippines that determination is project-specific rather than pulled from a single published table. The Fire Code of the Philippines and the Bureau of Fire Protection confirm required capacity based on the building's occupancy classification, hazard type, and the hydraulic demand of the fire protection system serving it, so a hospital, a warehouse, and a condominium will each land on different figures even at similar floor areas. This is why TankSmith does not quote a fixed liter figure for 'a fire reserve tank' in general: we size against the schedule your fire protection engineer or architect has already prepared, or we work alongside them while that schedule is being finalized. Our supported range runs from 1,000 to 500,000 liters, which covers everything from a small clinic to a large industrial estate site. For projects still finalizing their schedule, we can quote against a draft figure and adjust before fabrication, since panel-based tank systems are sized to the schedule rather than built to a fixed stock size. Getting this sequencing right, schedule first, then tank and pump sizing, avoids the common delay of ordering a tank before the number it needs to match has been confirmed.
What a Complete Fire Reserve Tank Schedule Entry Should Include
A schedule entry that a supplier can actually quote against needs more than a single liter figure. At minimum it should specify the required capacity, the material (FRP, GRP, HDG steel, or stainless steel), the intended location (rooftop, ground-level, or basement, which affects structural and access requirements), and whether the tank is dedicated fire reserve or a combined domestic-and-fire tank. TankSmith supplies against schedules calling for any of these four materials, in capacities from 1,000 to 500,000 liters. Where the schedule also specifies a certification requirement, our panels are available WRAS-certified for potable water up to 65C, with NSF-compliant liners where a liner is specified, manufactured under an ISO 9001 quality management system, and TUV SUD tested. Every FRP panel system carries a 3-year panel warranty and a 20 to 25 year design life, figures worth confirming against your schedule's durability requirements before fabrication starts. If the schedule does not yet specify a material, we can advise based on the site's water quality, structural loading limits, and whether the tank sits in a corrosive or coastal environment, but the final material entered on the schedule should reflect what actually gets fabricated and installed, not a placeholder carried over from an earlier design phase.
Materials TankSmith Can Enter Against Your Schedule
Whichever material your fire reserve tank schedule specifies, TankSmith supplies it as a modular bolted panel system rather than a single-piece tank, which matters for rooftop and tight-access sites common in Philippine retrofits. FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic) bolted panels are our most common fire reserve material, alongside GRP and SMC (sheet moulded compound) panels. For projects where the schedule calls for a metal tank, we supply HDG (hot-dip galvanized) steel panels, and where corrosion resistance or a stricter water-quality requirement is specified, stainless steel 304 or 316 panels. All four materials are available across our full capacity range of 1,000 to 500,000 liters. Where the schedule ties into a potable or process water requirement alongside the fire reserve function, our panels are available WRAS-certified for potable water service up to 65C, with NSF-compliant liners where specified. Manufacturing runs under an ISO 9001 quality management system with TUV SUD testing, and every FRP installation carries a 3-year panel warranty with a 20 to 25 year design life. If your schedule lists a material we do not carry, or leaves the material field blank, our team can walk through the tradeoffs between the four options against your site conditions before the schedule is finalized and submitted.
Turnkey Delivery: Tank and Pump Under One Contract
A fire reserve tank schedule rarely stands alone. It is almost always paired with a pump schedule specifying the booster or fire pump that draws from the tank, and splitting these two schedules across two suppliers is a common source of coordination gaps on Philippine projects. TankSmith supplies both sides under one contract: the tank itself in FRP, GRP, HDG steel, or stainless steel from 1,000 to 500,000 liters, and the pressure side using vertical multistage centrifugal booster pumps (CDL/CDLF series, 0.37 kW to 200 kW, SS304 construction) paired with VFD duplex control panels built on Inovance VFDs, rated IP54, with pressure feedback and auto-alternation between pumps. Because supply, mechanical installation, electrical work, and commissioning sit under one contract and one team, the tank capacity on your schedule and the pump curve on your pump schedule are specified and installed to actually match each other, rather than being reconciled on site after both arrive. This single-team accountability model is TankSmith's core structure: we do not subcontract the tank to one vendor and the pump to another and hope the interface works. For fire reserve applications specifically, this matters because a mismatched pump and tank connection is exactly the kind of gap a fire safety inspection is designed to catch.
Installation Timeline and Nationwide Coverage
Once a fire reserve tank schedule is finalized and the order is placed, TankSmith's typical installation window runs 5 to 14 days for systems between 20 KL and 500 KL, depending on the confirmed capacity and how ready the site's civil works (foundation, platform, or rooftop structure) are before our team arrives. Sites with civil works already complete tend to land at the shorter end of that range, while sites needing structural preparation alongside tank installation take longer. TankSmith installs nationwide across the Philippines, covering NCR, the rest of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, including projects inside PEZA and freeport zones such as SBMA, Clark, Cavite, and Batangas. This nationwide reach matters for schedule compliance specifically because fire reserve requirements are often tied to a building permit or occupancy permit deadline, and a tank system stuck at a regional supplier with limited coverage can hold up that permit. Verticals we regularly install fire reserve and combined tank systems for include hospitals and clinics (where redundancy and code compliance are typically specified on the schedule), warehouses and manufacturing facilities, hotels and resorts, and condominium or high-rise retrofits where rooftop access is tight. If your project sits inside an industrial estate or freeport zone, our team can coordinate installation timing against that zone's own access and safety requirements alongside the building's fire reserve schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is the specification table in a building's fire protection or plumbing drawings that lists the required fire reserve tank capacity, material, quantity, and location for the project, similar to how a door or window schedule lists specifications for those items. It is used during building permit and fire safety evaluation submission so the architect, engineer, and Bureau of Fire Protection are confirming the same figures. TankSmith builds tanks against whatever a finalized schedule specifies, in capacities from 1,000 to 500,000 liters, in FRP, GRP, HDG steel, or stainless steel.
It is set project by project, based on the building's occupancy classification and hazard type, and confirmed by the Bureau of Fire Protection under the Fire Code of the Philippines, not pulled from one fixed published table. That is why a hospital, a warehouse, and a condominium of similar size can land on different required capacities. TankSmith supplies against the confirmed figure once your schedule is finalized, across a range of 1,000 to 500,000 liters, and can also quote against a draft figure while the schedule is still being worked out with your fire protection engineer.
TankSmith supplies four options against a fire reserve tank schedule: FRP (fiberglass reinforced plastic) bolted panels, GRP/SMC panels, HDG (hot-dip galvanized) steel panels, and stainless steel 304 or 316 panels, all across the 1,000 to 500,000 liter range. The right choice depends on site conditions such as corrosion exposure, structural loading, and whether the tank also serves a potable or process water function, in which case WRAS-certified panels rated for potable water up to 65C and NSF-compliant liners are available. If your schedule does not yet specify a material, our team can advise before it is finalized.
Both, under one contract. TankSmith supplies vertical multistage centrifugal booster pumps (CDL/CDLF series, 0.37 kW to 200 kW, SS304) with VFD duplex control panels (Inovance VFDs, IP54, pressure feedback, auto-alternation) alongside the tank itself, with supply, mechanical and electrical installation, and commissioning handled by one team. This matters for a fire reserve schedule specifically because the tank capacity and the pump's duty point need to be specified and installed to match each other, which is harder to guarantee when tank and pump come from separate suppliers.
Typically 5 to 14 days for systems between 20 KL and 500 KL, depending on the confirmed capacity and how much civil works (foundation, platform, or rooftop structure) is already complete before installation starts. TankSmith installs nationwide across NCR, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, including PEZA and freeport zones such as SBMA, Clark, Cavite, and Batangas, so a finalized schedule can move to an installed, commissioned system without waiting on a regionally limited supplier.
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