If life as we know it were to end because of a natural disaster or nuclear attack, survivors would still have to satisfy basic needs in order to keep surviving. Mark Shepard confronted that thought when Quality Septic & Sewer of Overland Park, Kansas, was hired to install a wastewater system for a survival condo complex.What made the project more interesting was the site. The condos were constructed within the ultimate survivable shelter: a decommissioned missile silo that in the early to mid-1960s served as part of the United States’ nuclear deterrent during the hottest years of the Cold War.














