1.4 MILLION per school? for shelters? Are they on the crack-pipe?

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36. I'm actually from Kansas

I did do a retail store in Shattuck, Ok once...cut away 15 feet of a hillside, and there was nothing particularly difficult about it.

Now in all reality, I think retrofitted shelters at the schools will be above ground. We did one at an elementary school, where we added two classrooms onto a wing of the school. They were made of concrete, with bulletproof windows. So, it was a 'twofer'...we added new space, but made it into a shelter that wouls squeeze in all the students at the school. But I'd say $400-$500 psf for the above ground is about right (this is a finished space).

And, if you had to go underground, I'd say it would be in the same price range, as an unfinished space. ADA...that I would have to research. Assuming that power would likely go out, I'm not sure the an elevator is really useful. There are chairs with stair crawling tracks on them, used to evacuate buildings in the event of an emergency. Keeping a few of these at the top of the stairs may suffice, since going down into the shelter is an emergency situation.