However: Here is an “artist rendering” of a “conceptual mountain city” built onto and on top of and inside of mountain top. A project like this very much do-able on a large scale with many people involved yet as a co-operative effort only.
Extreme Engineering and Builder of High End Shelter Spaces
www.DeLagostti-Industries.com
Online Interview as follows...........
Question : How long has your company been designing and building shelter spaces, what is it’s background?
A: I was originally involved with this kind of secret project way back in my early teens (while working for my father while in Argentina). There we both custom designed and built an underground bomb shelter for a South American general. It was built under his home some 100 feet below grade, it was his second home and he loved it.
During the Falkland Island war off the shores of Argentina his home was leveled, but he lived through it all while seeing everything as it happened via satellite safely underground. Had he off not had this protection he wouldn’t have had time to re-locate to safety. We thereafter designed and custom built another home shelter inside the top of a mountain.
DeLagostti Industries was founded by my grate grandfather in Northern Italy long before I was born in Manhattan. It is a family based business.
Question : If a shelter is going to be built specifically for radiation protection from a nuclear explosion, how deep should a shelter be?
Answer : No shelter should be built less than 300 feet underground these days. Reason is that the size of the atomic weapons today are much greater today then it was during world war two. The main reason is that at this depth the earth helps you a great deal more as a natural barrier, but other extensive measures are nonetheless still required for your shelter / underground home.
Question : When designing a shelter space for a client, what are the minimum space recommendations that you suggest and why?
Answer : For the record. We simply don't recommend more than 7 people living in a small space of only 3000 square feet, and that recommendation is for short term use only. We do strongly recommend. which is much better, that the design be set for no less 1000 square feet per person for long term use.
Do note that: People living in a somewhat confined underground space we all need more area since one will not be traveling off to work etc. and this is a key design element that gets overlooked 90% of the time. I mean you don’t want to live as if you are living inside a submarine. Remember long term and quality of life is essential, and on that note, as humans we can get bored very quickly. So with that said, we don’t want to be in a cave like setting either.
Please note: Generally speaking, for our shelters, 1000 square feet is required as a minimum for life and mechanical support space for all my designs.
Baseline figures for one of our basic underground homes for a family of 7, you can say starts at $15.8 million US dollars (2008) and goes up quickly from there according to... Well, way too many other factors to get into here, but at least this should give you somewhat of an idea what the costs are as a start. So that means for long term use you would end up with a total of approx. 9000 to 10,000 square feet of underground overall space, and this figure does not include the access passage down to your shelter
Question : What items need to be factored in when it comes to considering the construction of a shelter, and what about costs ?
A: Extreme Engineering (Basic Outline, Non-Scientific ) As follows:
a ) Labor costs are extremely
very high for this kind of work.
b ) Custom grade custom manufactured material costs are very high.
c ) Custom design costs are high. As an on going overall.
d ) Legal costs are always high. As an on going cost.
e ) Insurance cost are sky high for this kind of work.
f ) Sub soil analysis are high yet must be acquired. Accurately. We don't need
underground surprises. such as for example. Sub-soil soft pockets.
g ) Surrounding location sub soil analysis would also be required. Same reasons
as above.
h ) Construction management cost are very high on many levels. For all extreme
engineering work of this kind.
I ) Customized HVAC system. And electrical power. Water and Sewage. Walk in
refrigerator for long term food storage. 1000 sq feet required
J ) Travel costs from USA to your location. And stay to your location from start
to finish are high. For me as well as for other non locals that are required
by me for this level / kind of work.
k ) Custom medical room ( as an option ) as an add on. 1000 sq feet required.
L ) Custom communication design for inner network as well as to outside network.
M ) Custom high-end interior finish out. Required since not all walls are at
a 90 degree angle etc.
I can go on but I think you get the picture.
Question : How do your shelter spaces differ from those of other builders / manufacturers OMITED
Answer : Yes I am fairly familiar with
both companies. However anything just below the surface level is so far as I’m
concerned next to worthless. Kind of like what is sold at your local dollar
store. 5000 psi concrete is a must have. The link that you sent me to is a generic
outline only, and the design is claustrophobic. Our ceiling heights are 10 feet
tall for not only effect of more space but this is required to run life support
/ HVAC etc.
Thick concrete walls with out any outer mechanical skinning as shielding is
worthless as well. What’s to protect you from radiation? I see both designs
as affordable nock-offs for the real thing, and with that said, think about
what is underground for the White House. Our designs are comparable to that,
and I’m sure that’s what anyone should expect. Yet smaller overall
square feet. Also, we are the only ones that are willing to work for the pubic
(at this level of real quality).
Let’s face it, why deal with the public if you don’t have to? I
do be because money is not my motivator. After all, in the case of world war
III, money world wide will quickly become very much worthless overnight, and
that’s a verifiable fact.
The designs shown are done to impress all non-engineers and all non-scientists.
Need I say it, I’m hardly impressed (except maybe for there low cost).
Put another way, as a simulation: A go-cart is much cheaper than a normal full
size real car. With that said, as a reliable long distance mode of transportation
what would you buy? The cheap (affordable) go-cart, or a real car that fits
4 passengers comfortably and provides a higher safety factor? So put that way,
the answer is a no brainer huh? Oh yes, and please lets not forget, a normal
full size car costs many times more than a go-cart by comparison.
Question
:
What are the sizes of the largest and smallest shelters that you have built
for clients?
Answer
: 3000 square feet was our
first described above. Largest is a stacked 10,000 square feet per floor. 10
levels thus approx. 100,000 square feet. Location plus any further details understandably
is being withheld per owners request to ensure it remains a secret.
Question
:
What advice do you have to those that are considering building their own shelters
due to budget constraints?
Answer
: Get together as a functional
group / team. For example: A surgical doctor, surgical nurse and a jack of all
trades so to speak (very skilled overall mechanical person), for life support
with an electrical background. And get a war veteran which is tested as still
being skilled, yet level mentally headed security person involved for your project
as a minimum.
And with that said, you pool the needed skills together to survive. Pool together
a lump size loans for this project. In the end (when WW III hits) you won’t
(most likely) have to re-pay them (the bank) I’m fairly sure. Meaning,
I suggest that you get a 40 year arm if available. With onset interest only
payments for the first so many years, and interest is tax deductible!
Question : Is there a gallery on-line where perspective clients can view photos of shelters that your company has constructed (during and after construction)?
Answer
: No sorry. We make it a stick
rule to not do that. I have some artist conceptual renderings is all. Some crude
hand drawn line sketches. And that all. Mainly nothing is cookie cut that we
do. Everything is custom and all projects are kept very, very much confidential.
Put an other way…………
That’s like asking for the design drawings before during and after of
a new Corvette design etc. as it happens or while its being developed.
This portion should be dropped as the image is not hosted where it can be linked to directly.
However: Here is an “artist rendering” of a “conceptual mountain
city” built onto and on top of and inside of mountain top. A project like
this very much do-able on a large scale with many people involved yet as a co-operative
effort only.
Sincerely Speaking,
Sarah Angelina DeLagostti
www.DeLagostti-Industries.com
Manhattan, New York City
United State Territories
DeLagostti Industries,
Extreme Engineering and Builder - Developer of High-End custom Shelter Spaces
www.DeLagostti-Industries.com
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