Talk:Chidlaw Building

Sources missing for construction information
I am unable to find sources for the following information:
 * The 1962-3 quadragon was constructed for more than US$2.6 million by pouring 7000 cuyd of concrete and tilting 68 prefabricated reinforced concrete slabs 24 x, seven inches thick, and 33-ton mass to form 2 floors (one underground) of 3.5 acre each.
 * A total of 2950 ft corridors (east-west "runways", north-south "taxiways").
 * Offices were formed with more than 2 1/2 miles of movable wall partitions and 722 doors, and 17 office locations around Colorado Springs (1.5 million pounds transported) were consolidated Thursday p.m.-Monday a.m. into the building e.g., the Corps of Engineers office (overseeing Cheyenne Mountain construction) in the prefabricated building across Bijou Street.

Does anyone know where this might be found?-- CaroleHenson (talk) 19:52, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

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Chidlaw Floors Questioned
Have worked in the Chidlaw building for over a year (2021+) and question some of the pictures and sources in this article. Several times I have read the 1962 architectural plans for the Chidlaw building in the building maintenance office, have been in most of the building, and have noticed the following:


 * According to the 1962 architectural plans, the Chidlaw building has only an above ground floor and only one basement floor. In the article it quotes a book that says there are two basement levels.


 * From the 1962 architectural plans and the size of the rooms, there is not a room large enough to hold the two floor deep war room pictured in the article. However, near the northwest corner of the basement, there is a entrance called the "general 's entrance" (from Tony Brown). Tony Brown looked at the article’s war room picture and said that the original war room still exists then showed me the “war room”. We passed down a short hallway then through a vault type door 6”x4’x7’ and entered a roughly 20’x30’x12’ finished rectangular room located near the northwest center of the basement floor. He said they tried to keep the room as it was in the 1960’s and the walls have lot’s of wood trim that looks dated. There was three large rectangular screens (two 12’x8’ on the long wall and one 12’x8’on the short wall). The long control desk is gone and a dozen office tables and chairs with around 25 personal computers now fills the room. Still it looks as though there was some artistic license taken on the article’s “war room “ picture because it looks like there is more items than what would fit in the room I saw. Tony said he would try to take some pictures of the war room to put in this article.


 * According to Tony Brown (age 80's, current building manager, and had worked in Chidlaw in the late 1960's), said the original secure document vaults are still in the southeast corner of the basement. Tony also stated there was no extra floors, basements, or sunken areas. Just two floors (above ground and basement). There was computer equipment in the Chidlaw and I myself saw it in the early 1970's during a tour.

If anyone who was from that era could comment on the architecture that would help.

Septagram (talk) 21:01, 17 November, 2022 (UTC)

War room picture ascribed to Chidlaw
March 13, 2024 spoke to a docent at the Peterson SFB museum and he identified the large multi-story war room as seen in the Chidlaw article as being the war room at Ent AFB CDC building located on the 1960’s Ent base map(now E. Boulder St. and Childrens view). Chidlaw’s war room was smaller and only on one floor. Septagram (talk) 04:36, 21 March 2024 (UTC)