Technical Information
a floor area (24-35)
- 24
Total gross floor area
- 16300 sq. metres
- divided into
- 25
Open access services
- 3850 sq. metres
- special rooms for (26-29)
- 26
Audiovisual
- 27
Computers
- 28
Special collections
- 29
Seminar room(s)
- 7 group work rooms, 1 parents-children room, 1 training room
- special activities (30-32)
- 30
Exhibition space
- 31
Lecture hall
- 32
Public refreshments
- 33
Administration and staff areas
- 34
Closed access stacks
- 35
Circulations areas (corridors, stairs, lifts), toilets, technical rooms, etc.
- 36
Further information
- 37
Number of reader seats (total)
- 420
- divided into
- 38
Audiovisual
- 39
Computers
- 37
- 40
Seminar room(s)
- 66
- 41
Regular
- 317
b total potential capacity of shelving
- 42
Books and periodicals (total)
- 392000 monograph volumes , 452 current periodicals, all in open stacks
- including
- 43
Open access stacks
- 44
Closed access stacks
- 45
Compact shelving
- 46
Audiovisual materials
- 47
Other
- 48
Number of staff required to operate the new library
- 15
c mechanical features
- 49
Ventilation/Air Conditioning
- Underground channel under the baseplate is used for the pre-conditioning of the outside air, and thus reduces energy consumption.
- 50
Heating
- Cooling in summer and heating in winter through a concrete core activation.
- 51
Lighting
- 52
Acoustics
- 53
Lifts, elevators, escalators
- 54
Book transportation system
- 55
Theft detection
- RFID
- 56
Building management system
- 57
Type of IT infrastructure
- 58
Other
- Rainwater is collected in an external tank and used as a service water.