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Main entrance and forecourt.

In a building of this type it is to the window mullions. There is Pipes and wastes can thus be taken essential to provide in the design for thus a flexibility within a module of to any point in the floors within cen- maximum flexibility in internal parti 3 ft. 4 in. for future internal partition- tres of 2 ft. Blanked-off tee pieces tioning and services to allow for ing as necessary. changing need or for changing em- phasis on the various laboratories, workrooms, lecture rooms etc.

All the floors therefore

been designed on а flat

have beam

The whole width of the verandahs to the main six-storey teaching block has

double floor forming a duct

a

wastes.

have been left at regular distances on all services for future connections if need be.

The ducts themselves are covered along which run the water, gas, and with 3 in. pre-cast concrete slabs in principle with two layers of hollow electric services, and all the laboratory two widths with key holes at short blocks forming a 15 in. thick slab.

These horizontal ducts are intervals so that any part (or all) of The structural columns on the win- linked to vertical ducts at each end the ducts can be opened up for dow wall to the main teaching block of the 450 ft. long building. Through modification to the services if required. have been kept some 2 ft. back from the concrete beam which forms the All laboratory waste pipes (including the window line and the windows are inner wall of the horizontal ducts, 3 in. the pipes within the bench fittings in a module of 3 ft. 4 in. with wide galvanised pipes have been cast in at themselves) are in special vulcathene mullions. The present internal cross 2 ft. centres. The wastes and service pipes which had been satisfactorily walls are 4 in. brick partitions fitted pipes are threaded through these pipe tested over the past few years in the into a special metal housing clipped sockets into the hollow blocks beyond. laboratories of several U.K. univer-

View from side entrance, Shenton Way.

THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER

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sities.

The total floor area of the whole building complex is 240,000 sq.ft. Thus, with a limited budget of M.$5 million for the complete building, ser- vices and furniture, there was no mar- gin for expensive finishings. With the exception of the ground floor adminis- trative wing, the library and main lec- ture theatre (which are either in mosaic or vynil tiles) all floors are in cement rendering with an admixture of Ironite for hardening purposes and to prevent "dusting. All wall sur- faces, internal and external, are finished in cement plaster and two coats of Super Snowcem. Exceptions are the granite-faced panel at the main entrance, the special terrazzo facing to the massive columns sup porting the main lecture theatre, and

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