In a cavern just before the exit stairway leading to a building on the rue Dareau ( former ' rue des Catacombes ') above, one could see an example of the Quarry Inspection's work in the rest of Paris's underground caverns: its roof is two 11-metre high domes of naturally degraded, but reinforced, rock ; the dates painted into the highest point of each bear witness to what year the work to the collapsing cavern ceiling was done, and whether it has degraded since.

Hindus and Muslims in Ayodhya had a profound belief in the miraculous properties of this cold and pure underground water, which was reinforced by abundant local folklore.

The arsenals were built underground in bedrock with reinforced concrete.

These were not " true " bunkers for the fact that they were simply reinforced underground rooms located in basement of post offices and other Federal Government installation.

The shank of the building consists of reinforced concrete and has a diameter of 21 metres, which is buried underground to a depth of six metres in Lausitzer granite.

It had reinforced underground launchers for thirty Spartan and sixteen Sprint nuclear tipped missiles ( an additional fifty or so Sprint missiles were deployed at four remote launch sites ).

The square, which sits atop one of the world's largest underground parking garages, is paved predominantly with two sizes of reinforced concrete slabs, amongst which sit a reflecting pool that serves as a skating rink in winter months, a food and skate rental kiosk, a peace garden, and the sculpture Three-Way Piece No. 2 ( The Archer ) by Henry Moore.

The Regal was built completely in reinforced concrete cement ( RCC ), fully air conditioned, and had an underground parking lot for patrons.

Its underground portions were built entirely using cut-and-cover construction, with reinforced boards and temporary streetcar tracks laid over the trenches to allow Yonge Street to remain open as the tunnels were built.

It consists of an underground launch tube (" missile silo ") in diameter and deep made of reinforced concrete with a steel-plate liner.

Massachusetts State Police searched the offices of Aggregate Industries, the largest concrete supplier for the underground portions of the project, in June 2005.

In November 1961 in Fortune magazine, an article by Gilbert Burck appeared that outlined the plans of Nelson Rockefeller, Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, and Chet Holifield for an enormous network of concrete lined underground fallout shelters throughout the United States sufficient to shelter millions of people to serve as a refuge in case of nuclear war.

Immediately south of the Ferrier Estate is Sutcliffe park which includes a lake, acting as a flood defence, and created by partly releasing the Kyd Brook from concrete conduits underground in which it had run until 2006.

While underground leaders were sentenced to long prison terms, assurances that political prisoners would be released and that Soviet forces and security would leave failed to be supported by concrete safeguards or implementation plans.

To quote from an article formerly on the London Borough of Sutton website: " Today most of London ’ s Thames tributaries flow underground or are imprisoned in concrete.

Exaggerated stories of underground concrete cable ducts are in circulation but most of the cable was directly buried without any added concrete, relying instead on the natural protection of dirt.

As a consequence, the city center is built on a gigantic concrete slab, with all motorized traffic travelling underground.

The striking blue-tiled and glazed interior, with raking concrete columns rearing up inside the huge underground space, was designed by the architectural practice Alsop, Lyall and Störmer.

Its route through the densest parts of the city is underground, from Hopkins Hospital to a portal west of Mondawmin station, where it immediately rises to an elevated concrete right of way parallel to Wabash Avenue practically at the city line.

A thick slab of concrete separates Portcullis House from the station, reportedly to defend against any underground bomb attacks.

The piles are capped by a 4 m-thick concrete raft 19. 6 m underground.

The present barrier along the Egyptian border consists of concrete and steel walls and is over eight metres high and equipped with electronic sensors and underground concrete barriers to prevent tunneling, adding to the already existent steel wall running the length of the border with Egypt.

) PVC can be used where wire is run underground or where concrete will be poured.

In the mid 1990s, VicRoads proposed the reconstruction the Boronia and Dorset Roads intersection, with the railway line being located underground and a new railway station built in a concrete cutting — ending the separation of the two halves of the suburb and uniting Boronia.

There is a twenty-two coffer " waffle vault " ceiling at Foggy Bottom-GWU as it was one of the first stations to be built in the system ; later underground stations abandoned this design for a simpler concrete arch.

Extreme methods were used to force the engineers to halt demolition, including underground tunnels with protesters secured within by concrete.

The park occupies an area of 26 hectare and includes an amphitheater, concrete roller-and inline-skating rink, ponds, pavilions, paths, and two underground parking lots.

They conceived an underground block as well as a sustained structure, which would stand eight meters above the floor, with the use of four pillars connected by two huge concrete beams.

In the 1930s, the portion of the River des Peres that runs through Forest Park was diverted entirely underground in huge concrete pipes.

1942 – Still an active military post during World War II, concrete artillery observation posts and an underground bunker are added to El Morro to defend against possible German attacks.

1942-Still an active military base when World War II breaks out, concrete pillboxes and an underground bunker control center are added to the ancient defenses of the Castillo San Cristóbal.

This shelter could be built in regions where water or rock is close to the surface, making it impractical to build an underground shelter.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., is developing plans to utilize specially treated lumber for underground shelter construction.

A blower is essential for the double-wall shelter and for the underground shelters.

Since then, it has been reported that North Korean workers are helping to build secret underground tunnels, for an emergency shelter and other unknown purposes, in Burma.

Confirmation of such accounts can also be seen in modern archaeology of the village of Lepalong, an entire settlement built underground to shelter remmnants of the Kwena people from 1827-36 against the tide of disruption that engulfed the region during Shakan times.

They are nocturnal and fossorial, finding shelter during the day in the relative cool of underground holes or undersides of rocks and coming out at night to hunt and feed.

One day, when a tornado blows through the town, Novalee and Americus hide in an underground shelter, but Sister is out running an errand and does not make it back in time.

Today, earth shelter construction is a rare practice, especially in the U. S. A. During the energy crisis and the 1973 Oil Crisis, along with the back-to-the-land movement, there was a surge of interest in earth shelter / underground home construction in an effort toward self-sufficient living.

From that point, all civilian life moves from the surface of the earth to a collection of underground shelter complexes on the Levels 1-5, while military personnel already occupy Levels 6 and 7.

Artesia is home to the former Abo Elementary School, identified by One Nation Underground ( ISBN 0-8147-7522-5 ) as the first and most likely only public school which is entirely underground and equipped to function as a fallout shelter.

The Germans put Billy and his fellow prisoners in a disused slaughterhouse ( although there are animal carcasses hanging in the underground shelter ) in Dresden.

Survivalists often have emergency medical and self-defence training, stockpile food and water, prepare for self-sufficiency, and build structures that will help them survive or " disappear " ( e. g. a survival retreat or underground shelter ).

Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland bought a house together, in Glendale, California, which had a small underground shelter beneath the front lawn.

The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 saw the tunnels converted first into an air-raid shelter and then later into a military command centre and underground hospital.

She was killed in the village street during an air raid drill, while most people were underground, and much of the investigation turns on the issue of who had been, or could have been, outside the shelter when the murder was committed.

From their headquarters within a vast underground nuclear shelter called " Mount Thunder " ( based on the actual continuity of government facility maintained by the U. S. at Mount Weather in Berryville, Virginia ), the general will use the power of the media and the military to prevent the implementation of the treaty.

The underground area boasts a geothermal power plant, a banking system, extensive dining areas, parking, a dedicated mail room for the Capital Mall Complex and a fallout shelter.

As the officers and their companions retreat to an underground bomb shelter, a general firefight ensues between the Dozen and the German troops.

The dinosaurs, according to their own legends, have inhabited the island for millions of years, having sought shelter in the underground caverns during the climate changes that caused the extinction of dinosaurs elsewhere on the planet.

Some managed to find shelter in the underground tunnel system below the city.

These were used as underground shelter during both world wars.