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Paint Factory Makurdi
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1.5 AIMS
The ultimate aim of
this project is to create, functional, simple, pleasing, economical,
orderly, flexible, safe and convenient industrial building – paint
factory.
And to satisfy the key words of the aims, the following are inevitable:
• For all furniture and plywood industries
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To achieve an effective and efficient design for a factory with a
serious view to flexibility, adaptability and versatility of the
building structures. Therefore, the aim is to realize a purely
functional planning with a specific purpose of smooth and maximum
efficient working of the different machineries, the administration of
the complex and the overall production.
 To create a system that
will allow personnel; operational and administrative to enjoy efficient
and pleasant working environment.
 To provide efficient circulation
system between the individual units of the factory and within the
layout as a whole thereby facilitating easy movement and assemblage of
raw materials and distribution of finished products.
 To enhance the psychology of workers towards efficiency by creating an aesthetical industrial architecture.
 To reflect the use to which the factory is to be put into which will be in form of an advertisement for the products.
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There will be a deviation from the old idea which emphasizes much on
mass to a modern approach which gives emphasis on lines and planes
(volume).
1.6 SCOPE OF WORK
The factory will undertake on mass
production basis, the manufacture of paints and other paint products. It
will also consist of four major paints of an industrial building;
 Research
 Manufacturing
 Administration and
 Welfare.
The
research includes laboratory and library to investigate and recommend
possible way of producing better products and raw materials.
The manufacturing section, according to the manufacturing process, include: dispersion, mixing, sieving and canning.
The administration comprises of offices, personnel and sales while
The welfare section includes the factory cline and staff canteen.
Other
components include the maintenance block, staff and visitor’s parking
spaces, warehouse for raw materials and finished products, delivery bays
and yards etc.
1.7 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
To really collect
important information towards the realization of this project and to
make an important contribution to Architecture, some research activities
had been carried out and data collected through;
 Visits to
existing paint factories site of the projects to determine their
production processes, organizational chart and determine the requirement
and conditions to be fulfilled in the setting up of such factory.
 Use of libraries, research institute, books, journals and unpublished manuscript of thesis reports.
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Visits to relevant Government establishment like the ministry of
commerce and industry, for collection of data, byelaws, history and
other important information.
 Personal interview of some people.
 Internet.
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