Posted on 03/28/2017 8:13:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Builders take note: The Trump administration is now soliciting design proposals and prototypes for a roughly 2,000-mile-long wall along the border with Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection published two requests for proposals late Friday, which included the specifications it expects for an American-Mexican barrier meant to deliver on President Donald Trump's promise to build a "big, beautiful wall."
The agency provided 11 threshold requirements for the wall, which it says "shall be physically imposing in height." The wall needs to be 30 feet tall — although "heights of at least 18 feet may be acceptable" — and it should prevent tunneling by going at least 6 feet below ground.
The wall, it adds, should be difficult for getting over and offer features that prevent "sophisticated climbing aids," such as grappling hooks and building handholds.
Prototypes will also need to prove that they aren't susceptible to a "physical breach" via a "sledgehammer, car jack, pick axe, chisel, battery operated impact tools, battery operating cutting tools, Oxy/acetylene torch or other similar hand-held tools," the CBP document says.
Potential contractors also need to keep an eye toward style, as the north side of the wall, or U.S.-facing side, "shall be aesthetically pleasing in color, anti-climb texture, etc., to be consistent with general surrounding environment." There are no specifications for the Mexico-facing side of the wall.
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As long as the south facing wall has some very large third finger extended icons, I’m good with whatever.
PING
concertina up top- razor sharp on mexico side build like prison walls
50’ high towers, two miles apart, with Marine snipes in each tower. Saves a ton of cash.
Replace those snipes with snipers.
Why not just adapt a model for a wall that is already out there?
No need to reinvent the wheel.
http://static.euronews.com/articles/219160/600x338_PixWall2.jpg
China has a great wall design......................
That, and maybe some iconic American portraits etched in the surface to deter Mexicans from coming here....Hillary’s mug, Rosie O’Donnell, Helen Thomas...like that.
Not really.
BINGO!
And we will offer the reason for having to build it easy monthly payments or a lump sum, their choice.
As long as there is no penalty for illegally crossing, there will be crossing.
Didn’t that take 700 years to build?
I don’t know, but the contract cost overruns must have been hideous!..................
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