Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 239 Prefabricated Modules
The construction of Fjord Town can be described as being in full swing. The pioneering immigrants devoted themselves to the construction of their new home with great enthusiasm, which surprised Purficott who came to inspect.

She had never seen such a spiritual outlook among ordinary people in this era, as if they were full of hope.

"They are full of hope and feel that they can start a new life here, so everyone is very enthusiastic." Oliver stood next to Perfectcott and introduced the situation to her, with a joyful smile on his face.

However, Purficott just sighed, because she knew that the hopeful new life these people expected did not exist.

The new home they are working hard to build now is just a bubble under the ice and snow. With the coming of wind and snow in the coming year, everything will eventually be frozen under the snow.

Thinking of this, Purficott became more determined. She turned to Oliver and asked, "Did you reserve the space you reserved in the town center according to my requirements?"

"Please rest assured, according to the dimensions of the drawing you gave me, I have vacated all the land in the center of the town. I told them that this place will be reserved as a public square. No one has any doubts." Oliver patted his chest and expressed this. Nothing will go wrong.

The so-called reserved space is the area above ground used to install the central heating tower and spiral streets in the underground city designed by Purficot.

According to Purficott's plan, a deep well will be drilled here, a tunnel will be excavated, and a central heating tower will be installed in the deep well, and the city will spread along the tunnel.

Although the relevant construction has not yet started, and even the shield machine used to excavate the spiral tunnel is still in its prototype, and even the prototype has not been built, the construction site that should be reserved still needs to be reserved.

After hearing what Oliver said, Purficott nodded with satisfaction.

"Your Majesty, your idea is too ideal. Even if there is such a convenient house, it is not affordable for people like them who are so poor that they want to come to the north to make a living." Oliver estimated the price in his mind, and quickly After calculating the cost of doing so, I think she took it for granted.

"Although the houses on the ground are only temporary residences, the quality must be ensured. In particular, we must pay attention to the issue of cold protection and warmth. The winter in the north is not as good as in Longton, where water can really turn into ice." Purficott told Oliver He warned that he was not in the north last year, and Purficott was afraid that he didn't know how severe the winter in the north was.

So he promised Purficott: "I have already told them, and in order to prevent them from not knowing the importance, all the houses are designed in a unified way, and I have arranged special personnel to supervise and inspect the work. If the house is not up to standard, it will be They will have to rebuild it.”

Otherwise, if we wait until later to excavate, it will increase unnecessary factory capacity and make planning inconvenient.

The two walked through the town, watching the new immigrants work hard to dig out the ground that had not completely thawed, and after laying the foundation, they placed wooden pillars in. Purficott sighed: "Pure manpower or efficiency? It’s too low. It requires construction machinery and the houses are prefabricated in a factory. This kind of residential house can be built in one day.”

Although Oliver had not experienced the cold winter in the north last year, he had been to Hiponia before and knew how terrible a winter of this level could be.

Although it is true that the use of construction machinery and prefabricated houses can greatly speed up the construction speed as Purficott said, factory prefabrication can also save costs, and the built houses will definitely be beautiful, warm and comfortable.

But it must be taken into account that everything comes at a cost, and what about building a house yourself manually? You have a set of basic tools, go to the forest to cut down some suitable wood, and the rest is just a matter of hard work.

If labor costs and time are also taken into account, the overall cost of machinery is indeed lower, but for these new immigrants, labor costs and time are not money. They are poor and have nothing, and their pockets are cleaner than their faces. In this situation, they have nothing but almost endless time and a handful of strength.

If you talk to them about how to save costs at this time, they will only tell you that it costs nothing to do it yourself.

Doesn’t Perfectcott know this? No, of course she knew that it was almost zero cost for these people to build their own houses, but it was not unreasonable for prefabricated houses to be so popular in the original world before she traveled.

On the one hand, of course, it is the development of the times and the iteration of building materials. In the end, all are prefabricated modules. Everything is a ready-made template. You only need to add a set according to the needs. The rest of the construction is almost done with the help of professional tools. It can be said that it only takes a very short time to complete.

Building houses in cold environments requires this technology even more. The permanent scientific research stations established by countries around the world in the Arctic and Antarctic all used prefabricated module assembly technology, because only in this way can they be built in extremely cold environments like the Antarctic. Build a house.

Although Purficott's plan is to build the cities in the north underground so that they can effectively withstand the extreme cold when the final winter comes, this does not mean that nothing will be left on the ground.

Among other things, before the technology of artificial light was developed, the greenhouse must be placed on the ground.

Otherwise, there would be no light underground and crops would not be able to grow, which would really mean eating mushrooms.

Although Purficott doesn't mind nibbling on mushrooms, considering the problems that may arise from a single type of food, a greenhouse is still needed to grow a variety of crops.

Not only that, prefabricated building modules are actually very useful during underground construction.

With this technology, you only need to dig out a suitable space underground, put the prefabricated modules into it, fill in the gaps, and a house will be built.

There are formal walls. Isn't this better than a simple earthen wall?

And another advantage of using formal walls is that they can effectively resist problems such as groundwater infiltration, and they can also effectively resist pests and rats.

Thinking of this, Purficott said to Oliver: "Prefabricated building module technology is a must, otherwise when the ground is frozen in winter, no matter how strong they are, they will not be able to dig through the frozen soil that is harder than iron. "

Hearing this, Oliver reacted and asked Perfectcott: "What do you mean?"

“Fiordland will continue to build houses the way we do now, but I will start research into prefabricated building module technology,” Purficott said.

(End of this chapter)