INFORMATION
ON AIR CHANGES
Recommended air changes per hour
(Statutory
Ordinances Bye-Laws must be complied with)
| SITUATION |
Air Changes |
SITUATION |
Air Changes |
SITUATION |
Air Changes |
| Assembly Halls Bakeries Banquet Halls Billiards Rooms Boiler Houses Cafes & Coffee Bars Canteens Cinemas Club Rooms Churches Dance Halls Dye Works Engine Rooms Factories Workshop Fish & Chips Shops |
4 - 6 |
Foundries Furnace Shops Glasshouses Garages Hospitals:General Wards Hairdressing Salons Hotel Bars Kitchens (Comm or School) Kitchens (Domestic) Laboratories Lavatories Laundries Lecture Theatres Laundrettes Libraries |
20 - 30 |
Mushroom Houses Offices Paint Shops Photography Darkrooms Pig Houses Poultry Houses (Deep Litter) Public Toilets Restaurants School Classrooms Swimming Baths Shops - Supermarkets Shops - Warehouses Theatres X-Ray Darkrooms |
10 - 20 |
ALTITUDE ABOVE SEA LEVEL OF MAIN CENTRES IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
| Name of Town |
Alt (m) |
Name of Town |
Alt (m) |
Name of Town |
Alt (m) |
Name of Town |
Alt (m) |
| Barbeton Bethal Bloemfontein Blyvooruitzicht Brits Cape Town Delmas Dundee Durban East London Germiston Harrismith Johannesburg Kimberley |
877 1700 1426 1524 1150 5 1600 1250 6 46 1665 1622 1753 1223 |
Klerksdorp Kriel Kroonstad Kuruman Ladysmith Louis-Trichardt Lydenburg Machadadorp Middelburg-(Mp) Mooi River Nelspruit Newcastle Paarl Parys |
1324 1610 1369 1113 1000 950 1470 1707 1515 1390 670 1187 123 1416 |
Pelindaba Phalaborwa Pietermaritzburg Pietersburg Port Elizabeth Potchefstroom Pretoria Randfontein Richards Bay Rossing Sasolburg Sasol 11 Sishen Standerton |
1380 410 671 1293 5 1350 1400 1770 50 564 1500 1600 1200 1531 |
Stellenbosch Umtata Upington Vanderbijlpark Vereeniging Volksrust Vryburg Vryheid Welkom Westonaria Windhoek Witbank |
111 700 814 1463 1448 1655 1187 1180 1376 1707 1728 1622 |


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