Prepare a relationship chart from the above information. Next, the group discussed the reasons why various activity-areas should be close or kept apart. They determined the primary reasons to be: (1) Flow of material, (2) Need for control/security, and (3) Convenient access. By consensus, the group determined the following relationships: It is absolutely necessary for the Production building (6) to be close to the Warehouse (7) because of the high flow of material. It is also absolutely necessary for closeness between the East Highway Access (2) and the Warehouse (7) because of both flow of material and convenient access. It is especially important for labs (4) and office (5) to be close because of need for control/security Relationships for the following pairs of activities were considered Important: North Highway Access (1) and Labs (4), and North Highway Access (1) and Offices (5), both because convenient access West Highway Access (3) and Production (6) for the same reason Labs (4) and Production (6) because they use common records (documents, drawings ...) Office (5) and Warehouse (7) - control/security Ordinary closeness was good enough for relationships between the following activity-areas: Office (5) and Production (6) - control/security Production (6) and Utilities corridor (9) -- convenient access Service (8) and Utilities corridor (9) -- convenient access Service (8) and Storm Water Retention (10) -- convenient access Utilities Corridor (9) and Storm Water Ret. (10) -- convenient access . The relationships between all other activity-areas were Unimportant. However, the external roadways are fixed. Therefore, the relationships between them are not part of the layout. To show this it would be better to record these relationships with a dash (--), rather than with U. No. of 1 NORTH HIGH WAY ACCESS This Block Shows Relation between "l" and "3" Importance of Relationship (top) Reasons in -Code (below) CLOSENESS A Absolutely Necessary E Especially Important 2 EAST HIGHWAY ACCESS 3 WEST HIGHWAY ACCESS 1 Important -- - -- 4 LABS 5 OFFICE "Closeness" Rating 1 -- - --- 0 Ordinary Closeness OK u Unimportant X Not desirable N* (N-1) Total -- - -- 6 PRODUCTION --- -- -- -- 1 15 7 WAREHOUSE 8 SERVICE 9 UTILITIES CORRIDOR 10 STORM WATER RETENTION 11 12 13 14 15 16 Code REASON 17 1 2 3 7 18 5 Reasons behind the "Closeness" Value X G 4 5 6 19 11 7 20 + 8 9