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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.

ЛЫ

ZOOLOGY

STAFF RM.

STAFF AM

++

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

LOWER GRD. FL. LEV..

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