When the alert comes

A shelter is only as good as the plan that gets people into it. Every Qilyx shelter is handed over with a written protocol, rehearsed until it is automatic.

From alert to shelter in minutes A phone sounds an emergency alert. A dotted green route runs from the door of the house, across the garden, to the shelter hatch and down into the shelter, where the family is safe. Alert Minutes on foot

Minutes, not hours

Missile flight times in South Asia can be a few minutes. Official warnings may come late.

So the shelter should be close to where people spend most nights, reachable on foot in a few minutes. A remote retreat shelter can work too, but only if you move there early, when tension is rising, not when the siren sounds.

No company can reach you during an attack, including ours. Our job is to make sure that before anything happens, your shelter is ready and everyone knows what to do without us.

The protocol, phase by phase

A summary of what we write for each shelter. Yours names people, routes and responsibilities.

Readiness

What keeps the plan working

  • Drills at least twice a year, including one at night and one through the escape hatch.
  • Every adult knows the door codes and can seal the shelter alone.
  • A go-bag ready for each person: phone, charger, glasses, three days of medicines, ID copies, shoes.
  • Vehicles kept above half a tank if a retreat shelter is part of the plan.
  • Stores, filters, batteries and fuel checked by our maintenance team, with a written report.

Escape plan

A typical Keep shelter, seen from above. Every shelter has at least two ways in and out, and the escape hatch is always outside any zone where a structure could collapse.

Swipe sideways to see the whole plan.

Plan view of a shelter and its routes The way in runs from the main building down a stair, through a decontamination airlock and two blast doors into the living room. The emergency exit runs from the living room through a tunnel to a concealed hatch, outside the collapse zone. If the entry is blocked, people can enter through the hatch and tunnel. Collapse zone Main building Stair Airlock Bath, WC Living and sleeping Plant Stores Blast doors Escape tunnel Escape hatch concealed
  • Way in. Down the stair, through the airlock and both blast doors.
  • Emergency exit. Through the tunnel to a concealed hatch.
  • If the entry is blocked. In through the hatch, which sits beyond the collapse zone.
  • Airlock. Outer clothing off and washed down before the clean area.
  • Plant room. Air, batteries and cooling.
  • Hatch. Opens from inside and out, with a code only you know.

Shelters can also be standalone, away from any building. The plan always follows the same rule: two independent ways in and out.

Make your family plan

Fill it in and print it. Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere. You do not need a shelter to use it. For help deciding what goes in it, read our family emergency plan guide.

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Family emergency plan

Your plan appears here as you type.

Plan first. Then build.

We design every shelter around how people would actually reach it.

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