Appendix B: Standard of Construction for Troop Cantonments

Appendix B

STANDARD OF CONSTRUCTION FOR TROOP CANTONMENTS

Standard 2
Class IV tents pitched by using troops; engineer effort for roads and site preparation.

Standard 3 Buildings with floors for administration, bath houses, infirmaries, storehouses, and kitchens. Class IV tents with floors for housing and with earth floors for all other purposes. Roads within the installation are stabilized with local materials. Water piped from central storage tank to infirmaries, bath houses, and kitchens. Electric distribution to buildings. Tent-covered latrines with 55-gallon drum burn-out receptacles.

Standard 4

(Upper limit to standard of cantonment construction for units expected to be based in a given location for less than twelve months.) Buildings with floors for all purposes except housing; Class IV tents with floors and wood frames for housing; roads within the installations are stabilized with local materials; water piped from central storage tank to infirmaries, bath houses, kitchens; camp exchange electric distribution to buildings and tent housing; latrine as in Standard 3.

Standard 5

(Authorized by self help or engineer troop or contract efforts. Normal upper limit to standard of cantonment construction for units expected to remain based in a given location for more than 12 months. Complete design drawings required. Installation of utilities permitted only under approved technical supervision.) Buildings with floors for all purposes. Roads, water supply, and latrines are the same as Standard 4; electric distribution to all buildings.

Standard 5, Modified

Same as Standard 5, except for addition, as conditions permit, of waterborne sewerage systems.

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APPENDIX B-1 PROPOSED CANTONMENT AREA