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NAS BARBERS POINT
F&S NO.

TITLE

09001

Assembly Building

USER

STRUCTURE FACILITY NO.

JTF

SCIENTIFIC

SCIENTIFIC STATION NO.

1682

BOD

None
FOD

FUNDING

($000)

AGENCY
AEC

ENGR

PROC

CONST

TOTAL

FURN

79.1

12.3

586.0

677.4

8.2

79.1

12.3

3586.0

677.4

8.2

PRE-GO
Prior Cost

TOTAL

COMPLETED

DESCRIPTION

Assembly Building 1682 (completed in 1964) is centered ona 204 x

216-ft. concrete pad within a lighted maximum secure compound enclosed by double

runs of chain link fence on the south, east and west, and by a single run on the
north. An electromagnetic clear zone, tree of metallic objects, is maintained
from antennas mounted on the roof to the CTVbuilding and to the Loading and
Maintenance Pad.

Asphalt roads, 15-tt. wide, connect the Assembly Building with the Payload Storage Building (Building 286) to the north and with the Loading and Maintenance Pad
to the east.
The 46 x 1U4-ft. two-story, steel-framed, concrete block structure has equipment sheiter lean-tos on its east and west ends of 11 x 21-ft. and 19 x 46-ft.
respectively, anda 4x 8-itt. compressor shelter on its north side. Low-bay
areas |4-ft. high flank a central high-bay area 29-ft. high. The building's concrete floor slab can support a four-wheel castored load of 6-tons in the highbay area where the concrete has a metallic additive.

Siding above the level of the low-bay areas is insulated aluminum; belowthat,
painted concrete block. Roofing is built-up, insulated.
The roof has catwalks,

personnel traffic.

access ladders,

and safety railings to accommodate

The low-bay roofs support the building's air conditioning

equipment.

The high-bay area is partitioned into east and west rooms of equal size with
electrically operated roll up doors, 15-ft. wide by 16-ft. high, at the ends
of each room. The doors are safety interlocked to prevent motion unless the
door switch is continuously depressed and are wired to an alarm which sounds
during operation.

9-1

a SGT

VOL Il

Apri! 1969

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