Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa March/April 2014 | Page 58

Access control restricts
access to the laboratory
area and to each laboratory
to ensure the safety of
laboratory activities
being undertaken

ENTRANCE

EXTERNAL WALKWAYS TO SERVICE DUCTS

Circulation
Visitors and staff to the laboratory enter
the building from the north with vertical
circulation provided by lifts and a stair case.
Meeting rooms, conference and canteen
facilities are provided on each level from
these lobbies.
Access control restricts access to the
laboratory area and to each laboratory to

ensure the safety of laboratory activities being
undertaken and the safety of visitors/ staff.
Sample movement is managed from the
sample reception area on ground floor from
the south. Samples are loaded onto trolleys for
laboratories and are dispatched in unmanned
lifts to designated floors. The trolley is then
received on the respective floor and taken to its
destination in one of the laboratories.

EAST ELEVATION

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Sasol Infrachem