The principal buildings comprising the SVK installation at Kiel were as follows:

1. Main laboratory and administration building, including a large wing for drafting files, and reproduction.

2. Main shop buildings in the form of a quadrangle with the magnetic laboratory (all-wood construction) in the center of the quadrangle.

3. Mine Scholl building and barracks.

4. Foreign Mine Museum building.

5. Assembly and storage building beside the docks.

6. Tank building similar to that of NOI, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.

7. Miscellaneous service buildings.

The major testing equipment available to SVK was as follows:

1. Physical testing machines of the type normally found in metallurgical laboratories.

2. Pressure tanks of various sizes, including types large enough to accommoadte mine cases.

3. Several laboratory ships, suitable for testing mines on the sea bottom.

4. Electrical and acoustical laboratory instruments.

5. Drop testing equipment and shock testing gun.

Since SVK preferred to make field measurements of mine units on the sea bottom, they made no attempt to perfect large acoustical tanks or simulation equipment for test-ing magnetic units.