Chapter 269 Infrastructure
Lu Xingtang asked everyone to enter the space to draw blueprints, while she and Ji Yanmo collected all the remaining supplies in Chengguan District into the space.
The so-called remaining materials are all the materials in the Chengguan area that are stored in the space, whether they are useful or useless.
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo collected supplies from Chengguan District separately. It took them seven full days to store all the remaining supplies and ruins from Chengguan District into the space.
After they collected all the supplies, everyone finished drawing the blueprints for the base. Lu Xingtang offered a lot of suggestions while they were drawing. He had previously seen the bunkers built by the Zong family and had wanted a bunker-style base. So he incorporated the bunker design and revised and reviewed it repeatedly.
Although none of them were professional architects, Su Cheng, Special Assistant Zhonggou, and Special Assistant Fox had the experience of the Hope Base. In addition, Lu Xingtang had downloaded architectural videos before. They had started studying them when they were in Sang Country and had long understood the situation of infrastructure, but they just had less experience.
After everyone's sleepless discussions, they finally finalized the most perfect base blueprint.
After finalizing the blueprint, Lu Xingtang and his team began to enclose the land.
The size of the base must be circled out, and then construction can be carried out slowly according to the drawings.
After enclosing the land, they chose a central, widest area to pile up all the stone, wood, bricks, tiles, and other construction materials they had collected along the way from the Imperial Capital. This included construction materials collected from Sang Country, Hope Base, and Sand City Base, as well as earthmoving machinery, pile foundation machinery, concrete machinery, concrete pump trucks and concrete pumps, concrete vibrators, concrete placing booms, and rebar welding machinery...
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo stacked the building materials according to their types in preparation for future use.
Looking at the mountains of construction materials, Lu Xingtang asked everyone to come and patrol to determine the quantity and condition of the materials. He also gave everyone two mountain bikes to facilitate patrols, and gave everyone a walkie-talkie so that they could notify others through the walkie-talkie if anything happened, without having to run back and forth.
After the building materials were piled up, Lu Xingtang asked everyone to practice first by building a wooden house next to the wooden house using a mortise and tenon structure. This would be where they would live while they were building the base. They couldn't live in space forever.
Although everyone had learned about infrastructure, they had never actually put it to work. They all bumped and bruised their fingers, hands, arms, and even faces the first time, drawing blood. However, under the meticulous guidance of Ji Yanmo, Lu Xingtang, Su Cheng, Special Assistant Fox, and Special Assistant Loyal Dog, everyone quickly mastered the intricacies of the mortise and tenon structure. With the help of machinery to lay the foundation, they completed the mortise and tenon structure in just two weeks.
It was built very simply, with no living room, no kitchen, no bathroom, only bedrooms and corridors. Men and women were separated, and couples lived in the same room, so people didn't use a lot of space. Finally, they added a kitchen, men's and women's bathing sheds, and a bathroom.
The shower shed and toilet were a bit far from the wooden house. At the same time, they dug out ten acres of land to grow vegetables and crops. Even if the space kept producing supplies, they had to have enough supplies outside to avoid being discovered.
At the same time, a well was dug for their daily use.
After the house was built, everyone worked together to build a lot of storage cabinets, including cabinets in the kitchen and each bedroom. After the wooden house was completed, Lu Xingtang took out all the supplies and used them regularly. If any survivors came to steal while they were building the base, they would suffer a heavy loss.
Next, they came to the place where survivors and vehicles had to pass, chose a location with a wide view, and temporarily built a simple gate to attract passing survivors to come and build a base with them.
After discussion, their base was named Lancheng, Lancheng Base.
"Tangtang, there's something I've always wanted to tell you. From the moment we decided to build the Lancheng base, you should have made plans to let the survivors join the base. The base has just been finalized and hasn't been fully built yet! If someone passes by our base, can we take the opportunity to recruit them and let them build the base with us? We have a limited number of people, and it's very difficult to build a bunker-style base!" Besides, they are newcomers, and it's not so easy for them to complete this task.
Lu Xingtang smiled: "Why should I put all the supplies out? Isn't it because I don't want others to know the secret of the space? It won't be so easy to take supplies from the space in front of outsiders." As he said, he took out a wooden sign.
Everyone laughed when they saw the content on the wooden sign.
We welcome survivors passing by to join the construction of the Lancheng base. We will provide you with food and accommodation, and give you a house when the base is completed. We will also assign you positions based on your abilities and help you earn supplies, so that you can survive absolutely safely in the Lancheng base and live together until the end of the world.
A small map is also attached so that everyone can find them at the base according to the map.
Lu Xingtang and his team didn't know how long it would take for Lancheng to welcome the survivors, but there would always be some who would pass by their Lancheng base, and they would capture them as soon as they could.
The three teachers lived in the wooden house and cooked for everyone. Lu Xingtang didn't want the three teachers to work so hard, but the three teachers asked to come out and do something within their ability. Lu Xingtang let them do it. Anyway, her consciousness would also make some in the space, and even if they couldn't eat it, they could store it there.
Next, they started drawing lines and laying the foundation. Excavators and bulldozers were working at the same time, and there was more than one, so the speed was much faster. Lu Xingtang required the foundation to be deeper, otherwise if a natural disaster struck, their base would not be able to be protected.
If the floor is high, the foundation is too shallow, which may lead to dangerous collapse.
Although the base's floors may not necessarily be very high, at least the foundation must be able to withstand the force and weight of an eight-story building.
Excavation of the foundation pit is too deep, often due to high groundwater level, it is necessary to increase dewatering measures. The sump dewatering method and well point dewatering method can be used.
These two points were downloaded by Lu Xingtang in the video, and everyone learned them by following along. Otherwise, I really wouldn’t know what to do?
Even though there were many people, Lu Xingtang was not idle. He helped everyone tie steel bars for use in laying the foundation. After the steel bars were almost tied, Lu Xingtang began to think of other ways to lay the foundation. Steel bars and cement were definitely not enough, and they had to save as much as possible, so they threw all the collected ruins and materials into the space to see which useless materials could be used to fill the base, including the various minerals they collected along the way. It would be best to use them all if possible.
A month later, their reinforced foundation was completed. They used the dynamic compaction method to improve the foundation's bearing capacity, which was at least 2 to 5 times higher than the original foundation's bearing capacity.
It was also on this day that their Lancheng base welcomed a survivor. Lu Xingtang's eyes lit up when he saw the survivor appear.
"Hello, are you from Lancheng Base? Will we really be provided with food and accommodation if we join Lancheng Base?"
Feifei doesn't know much about infrastructure, and I've come up with this based on research and asking family and friends. The content might be a bit boring, but I'll finish writing about it as soon as possible. I'll also try to make it better and less boring.
(End of this chapter)
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