[committee] Draft email for ucc-announce about the loft move

[oxinabox at ucc.asn.au]

On 04.11.2012 04:32, Jacques Chester wrote:
> Where is the entrance to the loft? I would imagine that fire
> safety would be a key consideration, so the arrangement of
> furniture would need to account for ease of escape; and the
> machine room as a likely ignition risk would need to be placed
> away from such an escape route.

This (draft) email is cover a general introduction of the plan.
Exact specific of furniture layout are still fairly blurry.
(though we have some nice suggestions up, thanks to blacknight.)

We intend to keep the current entrances to the loft.  (there are 2)
Building more stairs seems unnesc.
Some doors will have to be added at the top of those stairs, of course.
(or potentially the bottom, but that looks like it
might not be allowed by the building code.)
which can be seen in the current loft floor plan available
at http://loft.ucc.asn.au/design/cur_floorplan/  (bottom link)

The machine room needs to be adjacent to a wall,
for air-con vents.
The stairs are (the map prob makes this clearer) fairlydistant from 
walls.
If we used the "back corner" a fire in the machine room might make 
accessing
that stair case harder, however we have 2.

That all said:
The new machine room would be more fire safe than the current one,
current plans suggest making it out of glass.
Which would be sweet

Frames
UCC OCM
Wheel Member