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Originally Posted by jrinlv
I would put steel I beams in the roof and then pour a reinforce slab on top of that. The fact that it's underground you never know what will have to drive over it. That would be an unpleasant surprise to fall into...JR
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Just like a large concrete septic tank.
The engineering on that would be costly but I'm sure we have a civil engineer on the site that could throw it together. I have some engineered drawings on the computer but the site won't let me load them because of the size.
The best idea so far is the C-can in the ground. 8' x 8' x 20'. Not the 40 footer. Plenty to do what you want. 20 footers cost about 3,500USD. They also make High cubes.
We stack 3 layers of sandbags on them in the middle east and surround them with Hesco barriers for military bunkers. no reinforcement required. you could bury one an easy 4ft from the surface without any structural issues. No pouring of concrete, stacking brick, tieing rebar, setting and busting forms. Just dig, place, and backfill. You can run all the utilities after it is in place.
That's just what I would do from experience is in designing entire camps military and civilian. modular, semi-permanent and permanent from ANA Batallion Camps in Afghanistan to Camp Victory Iraq.