The upper floors accommodate a number of smaller laboratories, study rooms, staff rooms and offices. On the sixth floor are a Professor's room and laboratory, three staff rooms and laboratories, а research laboratory and a radiochemical laboratory, as well as a dark room and other rooms. Largest room on the seventh floor is a 1,012-sq.ft. Applied Chemistry teaching room with an adjacent Research laboratory, and there are more staffrooms and laboratories, as well as storerooms, instrument rooms. a student common room and offices. Similarly, the eighth floor accom- modates another Professor's room and laboratory, three staff rooms and laboratories, an academic staff com- mon room, a hydrogenation room,
an ozonolysis room, a research labo- ratory, a fireproof laboratory and chemicals store, as well as instrument rooms and offices.
Work on the University Science Tower, which will cover an area of 60,000 sq.ft., is already under way. Piling has been completed, and con- struction of the building itself is completed up to the first floor level.
Piling was carried out by a separate, specialist contractor, United Engineers Ltd. Because of the soft nature of the site and the close pro- ximity of existing University build- ings, it was necessary to use Mega precast concrete piles which could be sunk without disturbing the founda- tions of other buildings. Sheet piles
were also driven as protection for the foundations of the Social Study block.
Construction of the building itself is being carried out by Oriental Structural Co. Ltd. Overall size of the building will be 116 ft. by 54 ft. 9 in. by 150 ft. high from the Lower Ground floor to the main roof, with a 12 storey main stair, lift and sani- tary annexe measuring 36 ft. 9 in. by 18 ft. 3 in. by 177 ft. high overall from lower ground floor to the motor room roof. There is also a nine-storey secondary stair annexe, 19 ft. 3 in. by 7 ft. 9 in. by 135 ft. high overall from the ground floor to the main roof.
The building is of reinforced con- crete and brick construction on piled (Continued on page 122)
SCIENCE BLOCK
FIRST YEAR LABORATORY
EPARATION”
ROOM
DUCT
LIFT
BALANCE RM
FIRST YEAR LABORATORY
BALANCE RM
I
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SCALE
24
32 FT
LAV.
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ZOOLOGY
STAFF RM.
STAFF AM
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ROOF LEVEL.
MOTOR
AM
MOTOR RM, LEVEL
LOBBY
STORE
ROOF LEVEL
INSTRUMENTS RM LOBBY
8TH FLOOR LEVEL
INSTRUMENTS RM. LOBBY
7TH FLOOR LEVEL
STAFF RM
INSTRUMENTS RM. LOBBY
6 TH FLOOR LEVEL
SEMINAR
GLASS BLOWER
LIBRARY &
READING AM
STORE
LIFT
713 A
5TH FLOOR LEVEL
LAV
4TH FLOOR LEVEL
3RD FLOOR LEVEL
2ND FLOOR LEVEL
IST FLOOR LEVEL
GRD. FLOOR LEVEL
STORE
ENTRANCE LOBBY
D
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