A single technical standard will be developed for shelters, bunkers, bomb shelters and protective premises, according to which they will have to be built. It will be adopted for the first time in the country. This was reported by the authors - experts from the GOCHS Research Institute, the leading scientific institution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
"In addition to the general requirements for protective rooms, this GOST also considers structural and space-planning requirements for building structures, as well as engineering life support systems for basements adapted to protect the population," the press service of the Institute reported.
That is, for the first time, the new standard will provide all the parameters of the protective room that are necessary to preserve the life and health of the person who went down there. At the same time, most of all, the new GOST will be useful not to the military, although they too, but to simple builders who massively erect residential high-rise buildings.
The thing is that the national standard for the first time will define the requirements for the adaptation of basements of buildings for shelters of civil defense. The developed GOST is called "Adaptation of the buried premises of buildings and structures of various design schemes for protective premises for the shelter of the population."
As the scientists of the Institute reported at the conference on improving the protection of the population, with the adoption of the standard, construction contractors will be required to take into account the general technical requirements for the adaptation of basements, both existing and projected buildings and structures for protective premises from a variety of hazards.
You can hope that over time, flooded and smelly basements with flowing pipes and rotten sewage will become a thing of the past, because builders will have to redo basements in existing houses under GOST standards.
The development of the modern concept of civil defense involves the transition from large centralized shelters to small, almost individual shelters, into which you can descend in a couple of minutes. And the basements of high-rise buildings fit this concept perfectly.
Everyone remembers the famous newsreel footage of the Great Patriotic War, where Muscovites are sitting on the floor of the Mayakovskaya metro station. But in those days the bombs were different, not smart and not high-precision, as they are now, and the flying time of the Junkers and Messerschmitts was different. Now existing powerful shells can destroy any bunker at any depth. But such missiles cost many millions of dollars and it is impractical to shoot them at a separate high-rise building.
In order for the shelter not to become a big mass grave, the authors of the modern concept of civil defense, just provided for the placement of small shelters at a variety of addresses. There, people can not only wait out hypothetical bombardments, but also hide from man-made accidents, as well as from such exotic threats as a meteorite fall.
Timofey Borisov