The Law Basement (the part given over for the Physical Sciences and Engineering journals) is now full. Well done team. Photos of the shelves being emptied have been taken and will be made available for viewing soon.

The Project Control Group meeting this week focussed on the electrical side of things, with Warren from Cosgroves attending the meeting to talk through various procedures that will need to be carried out to ensure that the lighting plan is not compromised. A new topic was addressed and that was the roof. Access to the roof is required at various stages of this project and concerns have been raised about the condition of the roof. Facilities Management are to set up a separate project to see if a separate contract can be drawn up to refresh the roof of the Engineering Library. The 200 power and data outlets have been agreed to. An additional meeting to discuss the compactus shelving was arranged for Friday.

Dawn, Theresa, and I meet with Lindsay Hampton, plus Nick and Donavon from Courtney Architects on Friday morning to discuss in detail the requirements for the compactus shelving. It was agreed that 392 bays would be required. There is still an outstanding height issue to be solved, however it is possible that recessed sprinkler heads maybe the solution, watch this space next week. The area between the rails, on which the compactus runs, was also thee subject of debate and further research is to be carried out to see if ramps or in filled flooring will be used.

Heather