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Climate Control

The buildings in the Lambeth Field complex
are expected to have climate control units.
Windows in the dormitories, therefore, could be
closed all the time. If a student insisted on
leaving his window open when a train was
passing by, he would simply have to put up
with the noise.

It was also recommended that both bushes
and trees be planted along the railroad tracks.
The bushes would serve two purposes. They
would hide the unsightly tressles, and they
would also act as a buffer that might absorb
some of the noise. Despite all of the
precautionary efforts that the site planners
might take, all attending the meeting agreed
that some noise would reach the ears of the
Lambeth Field inhabitants. It was hoped that
the people in the dormitories could easily
adjust to the din caused by the trains.

Sasaki, Dawson, and DeMay have taken the
Lambeth Field Committee's suggestions and are
now in the process of formulating the final
recommendations.

It is not known when construction will start
on the Lambeth Field dormitories. A member
of Sasaki, Dawson, and DeMay asked D. Alan
Williams if construction of the dormitories was
to start in the Spring. Mr. Williams,
acknowledging that construction of the
dormitories was already late in starting, replied,
"Oh no, yesterday."