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Originally Posted by Anchor
Does anyone know anything about building shelters on a larger scale? Optimal placement, Sanitary considerations, extensions out to farming.
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Yes, I know about building shelters on a large scale as well as placement, sanitary considerations, and the farming end of things.
This is a big question. There are several factors that need to be addressed.
What time frame are you looking at after a catastrophe, a week, a month, a year? If you are near a zone that sustained a lot of damage, you will have to deal with some people who are in no mental state to cope with the events. This may be a few or it may be many. If they cannot get out of their funk, they will worry themselves to death. You also have to think about the amount of injured you will see as well. In such a situation, a general mental state of negativity is present. This allows disease to take hold of the person, greatly increasing the area mortality rate.
Once that is taken into account, you will have to think about how temporary your shelters are. You will most likely want to separate the sick from the well, within reason, in order to decrease the spread of disease. This is a major sanitary concern. You will have to gauge this on your geographical location. If you have a high mortality rate, you may want disassemble the makeshift hospital at a later time because some of these people will die and decrease the population and some will get better and be able to help others.
Are you doing this near the city? Is there viable farm land in the region? Are you going to relocate a temporary shelter or make something more permanent in a different location with better land and resources? Are you doing this by yourself or do you expect everyone to help (some will not be able to)? Are you going to use found materials from the surrounding area or do you want to get everything new? Are you near a seismic or flooding area? Can your shelters sustain aftershocks or flooding? How fast do you want to put them up?
Other things to consider: human waste management, garbage, power needs, distribution system, food production (seeds, fruit, vegetables, dairy, animals for protein, etc), how many people are there to feed, clothing, bedding, medical needs, population increase and decline, etc.
There is a mass of variables to be considered. Many important ones, if overlooked, can mean life or death.