Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa March/April 2014 | Page 59

Visitors and staff to the laboratory enter the building from the north with vertical circulation provided by lifts and a stair case RECEPTION LIFT AND STAIR ACCESS The magnetic fields generated by the lifts were measured before a specification was drafted to ensure that no magnetic fields were detected in the microscopy laboratory located near to the lifts. Change rooms, showers and lockers are located on each floor for laboratory technicians. Access to the vertical service shafts for maintenance is external (from service walkways with restricted card access) away from the operational areas of the laboratories. Flexibility and Adaptability A modular planning grid was developed from the ergonomic space norm to allow safe movement between the laboratory benches and the space requirements for the depth of the benches. This was developed from CONFERENCE ROOMS LEAD OFF THE ENTRANCE LOBBY ON EACH FLOOR Sasol Infrachem 59