9. Maintenance and Repair
10. Warehouse and Receiving
11. Laundry and Linen
4.5.2.1.2 Choice of corner-guard material is governed by wall finish:
A. Use surface-applied (full height) resilient type corner guards on gypsum
board, veneer plaster, or plaster walls.
B. Use stainless steel corner guards on masonry or ceramic tile walls.
4.5.2.2 RIGID ADHESIVE-APPLIED ACRYLIC/VINYL
At external corners in patient bedrooms, use rigid, acrylic or vinyl,
surface-mounted corner guards, self-adhesive or applied with double-faced
tape.
4.5.2.3 STRUCTURAL STEEL
Provide structural steel angle guards, suitably painted or galvanized, for
the external corners of exposed masonry interior walls and columns in the
paths of motorized wheeled vehicles in corridors and areas of:
A. Warehouse and Receiving
B. Laundry and Linen Service
C. Parking Garages and Ambulance Garages
4.6. CEILINGS
4.6.1 CUBICLE CURTAIN TRACKS
Examination rooms, and patient bedrooms, except in Mental Health and
Behavioral Patient Care Units, are to have cubicle curtain tracks for
privacy. All cubicle curtain tracks are to be surface mounted and should be
shown on the 1:100 (1/8 in.) reflected ceiling plans.
4.6.2 CEILING HEIGHTS
4.6.2.1 Minimum clear ceiling heights from finished floor to finished ceiling
or underside of any obstruction above finished floor shall be 2700 mm (9 ft.)
except for areas listed below:
A. Animal Research Operating Rooms and
Radiographic rooms
2.9 m (9 ft. 6 in.)
B. Camera Rooms (Medical Media Production)
3.0 m (10 ft.)
C. Cardiac Catheterization Rooms (X-ray)
2.9 m (9 ft. 6 in.)
Note: See Paragraph 5.12.3.3 below for exceptions.
D. Chapels constructed as separate buildings (The wall height at the nave
shall be to the intersection of the underside of the roof slab with the
exterior surface of the nave wall.)
3.6 m (12 ft.)
E. Corrective Therapy Rooms (Rehabilitation Medicine) 3.0 m (10 ft.)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN MANUAL
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BUILDING INTERIOR
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