University Science Tower. based broadly on the University's original master plan but incorporating many of the best features of foreign chemistry buildings he had visited.
As designed by Mr. Ho, the new Science Tower will be 10 storeys including a roof-top experimental station. Because of the siting, it has also proved possible to have half a storey in the lower ground floor.
The building will provide three rooms and three laboratories for professors and rooms and laboratories for 17 lecturers. In the event of further increases in the number of staff, new lecturers could be accom- modated in the research laboratories or in the professors' laboratories.
For research workers, in addition to the Professors' laboratories, four other laboratories with a total area of 2,000 sq. ft. are provided. These will accommodate at least 40 work- ers. As it will be some time before this number of research workers is is reached, the laboratories will be used, if necessary, by some lecturers and by honours students.
As far as accommodation for students is concerned, honours stud- ents will have one laboratory for Physical Chemistry (1,248 sq.ft.) and one for Inorganic and Organic Chemistry (1,230 sq.ft.). These labora- tories can be used for 30 students but up to 50 can be accommodated if the research laboratories are also utilised.
For sessional year and final year students, there will be three labora- tories which can be used for Inorganic and/or Organic Chemistry and two laboratories for Physical Chemistry. Each laboratory will be 2,221 sq.ft. The Inorganic and Organic labora- tories will each be able to accom- modate 48 students comfortably or 64 with something of a squeeze. Allowing for trebling of classes, the total number of students that could be accommodated would be 432 with comfort, and 576 with squeezing.
In the case of the Physical labora- tories, the maximum number that could be accommodated in comfort is 288, or 384 at a pinch; even more could be found places if some of the Research laboratories or part of the Seminar room were converted.
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Intermediate year students will have three laboratories of 2,221 sq. ft. each. The maximum number that could be accommodated is 432 with comfort and 576 with squeezing.
The building is designed to achieve maximun utilisation of space. On the lower ground floor there will be mainly store rooms and service rooms, including a general store, a crates room and an unloading bay, as well as a 506-sq.ft. workshop, a caretaker's room, a hydrogenation room and an air-conditioning plant room.
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The ground floor proper houses more store-rooms a glassware and general store, a chemicals and dange- gerous chemicals store, a radio-active materials store and a stores record room. Other ground floor rooms in- clude 794-sq.ft. microanalytical laboratory, a microanalysts' room and instruments room, as well as a pre- paration room and a glassblowers'
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On the first floor of the building are two of the First Year laboratories (each 2,221 sq.ft. in area) and also a small balance room and a preparation room, while the second floor is simi- larly laid out, with a third, First Year laboratory and an Inorganic Chemis try laboratory (each also 2,221 sq.ft.) plus preparation and instrument
rooms.
The fourth floor, once again, houses two laboratories
each 2,221-sq.ft. Physical Chemistry labora- tories in addition to preparation and instrument rooms.
On the fifth floor there are three smaller laboratories, ranging in area between 1,236 sq.ft. and 1,248 sq.ft., and intended for Honours Physical, Honours
and Organic
Inorganic students and Seminar students repec- tively. There are also a 1,075-sq.ft. library and reading room and a small projection room and store.
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