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Observations- och mättjänst

Civilförsvarets yttre sinnen

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Civilförsvar · 6 May 2016 · 6 photographs

Original-article audit

What this source can support

Reviewed 15 August 2026 · geometry completeness 60/100 · medium

status: no linked facility model | assessment: The article is sufficiently quantitative to support a new small-fortification archetype, but morphology must branch by shelter type. The 1961 cost is a three-site group total and should be retained as a group benchmark until site-level scopes are recovered.

Supported use

The article provides a useful micro-facility type standard. An observation point comprises a personnel shelter plus a protected two-person lookout/post and an instrument position. The personnel shelter is about 12 m² / 129 ft² for at least three and at most six people. Its construction could be an existing normal shelter, freestanding shelter, rock shelter or fragment/radiation shelter depending on location. Lookout-to-shelter travel should not exceed two minutes; separate observation sites should be at least 2 km apart. Göteborg had twelve observation sites, three newly built freestanding sites in 1961. The group cost for those three was estimated at SEK 150,000 in 1961 (SEK 1,655,048 in 2016 money).

Geometry evidence

area_m2: value: 12 m² / 129 ft² | scope: personnel shelter archetype | evidence: Explicitly reported as approximately 12 m² / 129 ft² for 3–6 people. | inner_structure: Possible forms include an existing normal shelter, freestanding shelter, rock-fixed shelter or fragment/radiation shelter.; Lookout/post should, where possible, have pressure resistance comparable to a reinforced-concrete framed building. | other: Lookout/post capacity: two people.; Personnel shelter capacity: minimum three, maximum six.; Lookout-to-shelter movement time: no more than two minutes.; Spacing between two observation sites: at least 2 km.; Explosions-point instrument should preferably be adjacent to the lookout and no more than 200 m away.; Dense measurement-network spacing: generally 5–10 km; instrument-use distance limits of 10–15 km from a town centre, up to about 20 km for Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö.

Historic-cost evidence

amount_sek: 150000 | price_year: 1961 | equivalent_sek: 1655048 | equivalent_year: 2016 | scope: aggregate estimated cost of three new freestanding observation sites in Göteborg | note: This is a group total. Do not assume equal per-site costs or treat it as the cost of all twelve sites.

Systems described

Telephone and radio usable from both shelter and lookout.; Heating, bunks and assigned hand tools.; Observation, radiological/gas measurement instruments and explosions-point indicator.; Weather protection at the lookout.; Normal-shelter protection value of at least 3 atö where building-shelter duty applied; otherwise fragment protection and residual-radiation protection factor 100 as the stated minimum.

Primary cost drivers

Shelter structural/protection variant.; 12 m² / 129 ft² personnel shelter and two-person lookout construction.; Telephone/radio link and observation/measurement instruments.; Remote access, siting and distributed network count.; Heating, bunks and basic support equipment.

Unit / programme scope

Unit geometry is a 12 m² / 129 ft² personnel shelter plus lookout/instrument arrangement. Göteborg's twelve-site count and the SEK 150,000 cost for three new sites are group/program evidence.

Revision direction

Indeterminate

Missing inputs

Plan/section and shell thickness for each structural variant.; Lookout dimensions and exact shelter-to-lookout distance.; Portal/escape details.; Instrument, radio and telephone inventory.; Site-specific civil works/access.; Cost allocation and scope for each of the three 1961 sites.

Site / data issues

The SEK 150,000 amount covers three facilities in aggregate; no per-facility split is published.; The article blends one anonymous surviving exemplar with national/type requirements and Göteborg network counts.; Distances are network/siting rules, not tunnel lengths or building geometry.

Source photography

6 photographs sourced from the original article, with captions where available.

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