• Newer schools in Montgomery County, TN can handle 200 mph winds with insulated concrete forms
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[url]http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20130527/NEWS01/305250009/Newer-schools-Montgomery-County-can-handle-200-mph-winds[/url] [quote=Leaf Chronicle]In the days after the Oklahoma tornado that killed several elementary schoolchildren, Norm Brumblay, facilities manager for the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, spoke to a group of teachers touring the new Pisgah Elementary School and directed their attention to a wall. The thick, concrete exterior wall was built using insulated concrete forms (ICF) that can withstand winds up to 200 mph, Brumblay said. In many of the older buildings, the concrete-block walls can withstand winds of only up to 70 mph. But newer buildings, such as Pisgah, are built from ICF, which consists of 3 inches of insulation and 6 to 10 inches of solid concrete with reinforced steel. The outside has a brick veneer and the inside drywall.[/quote]
Dayum Wonder how much extra it cost. Because the alternative is to just build basements and I was wondering if the total cost of the materials offset the reconstruction costs
Jeez, that sounds expensive. My school couldn't even afford to build 3 more classrooms. They just bought 3 construction trailers ([url=http://www.tysononsite.com/files/i/original/8x30.jpg]these things[/url]), put desks in them, and stuck them in the parking lot.
i dont even know what my school district spends their money on definitely everything but important things like paying teachers properly and giving us a not shitty education
I feel like the chances of getting hit by a tornado is too low for to go this far though.
Seems kind of a waste considering I've never even heard of a major tornado hitting tennessee anyways. You know, considering most, if not all of the state is in the middle of the smoky mountains. [img]http://www.bestourism.com/img/items/big/8231/Great-Smoky-Mountains_Appalachian-deciduous-forest_16239.jpg[/img]
Gee I wish my school district spent money on something useful. We got a million dollar grant recently. Know what we spent it on? Apple laptops for eeeeeeeverybodyyyyy
[QUOTE=Hardpoint Nomad;40850710]Gee I wish my school district spent money on something useful. We got a million dollar grant recently. Know what we spent it on? Apple laptops for eeeeeeeverybodyyyyy[/QUOTE] I dunno about you but that sounds a hell of a lot more useful than making your school completely tornado proof in an area thats about as likely to get tornados higher than F2 as it is to get earthquakes (which is to say, not at all).
[QUOTE=KorJax;40856247]I dunno about you but that sounds a hell of a lot more useful than making your school completely tornado proof in an area thats about as likely to get tornados higher than F2 as it is to get earthquakes (which is to say, not at all).[/QUOTE] Granted, but that money could have been better spent getting some decent Dell laptops for 1/3 of the price and used the spare towards something else.
[QUOTE=KorJax;40856247]I dunno about you but that sounds a hell of a lot more useful than making your school completely tornado proof in an area thats about as likely to get tornados higher than F2 as it is to get earthquakes (which is to say, not at all).[/QUOTE] So what would you rather? Die, or not die?
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