"Provide water distribution and fixture supply piping, sized as required elsewhere in this code, roughed-in immediately adjacent to each waterless urinal fixture installed."
"Provide water distribution and fixture supply piping, sized as required elsewhere in this code, roughed-in immediately adjacent to each waterless urinal fixture installed."
Given the extent to which I despise low-flow toilets, for their propensity to be clogged by even the most modest of turds, I am glad to see that someone is thinking ahead on the possibility that the current popularity of no-flush urinals may fade in time.
This code makes converting new construction to flush urinals similar in cost to re-converting old construction that had been previously converted to no-flush.
It seems like a good idea to me, especially for public buildings, but even so, it is completely wrong for a government to force this one upon everybody. This is the kind of thing that gets wielded as a hammer against off-grid aficionados that install composting toilets, because they do not wish to connect to the muni water supply and sewers.
Laws that increase the minimum cost of doing something are a very significant barrier to innovations and locally appropriate technologies.
At one new building I worked in, they had to put in standard water based urinals to pass inspection then replaced them with waterless urinals for their LEED certification -- presumably now the codes allow for waterless urinals, but apparently still require the plumbing.