[design] WTC autopsy

3-Year Federal Study of 9/11 Urges Safer Skyscraper Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/nyregion/22towers.html

The inquiry, conducted by more than 200 technical experts and contractors working for the agency, amounts to a 10,000-page autopsy of the trade center collapse. The report includes 25 pages of recommendations, which will be released for the first time as a full set in New York tomorrow.



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Subject -- NIST June 23 Briefing on the World Trade Center Investigation



The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a public briefing starting at 2 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on Thursday, June 23, 2005, at the Marriott Financial Center Hotel (85 West St., Grand Ballroom, third floor) in New York City.  NIST will present the draft recommendations from its building and fire safety investigation of the collapses of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  The recommendations seek improvements in the way people design, construct, maintain, and use buildings to increase building, occupant, and emergency responder safety.  They will be released, along with the complete set of draft WTC towersí investigation reports, for a six-week public comment period.

The reports on the towers consist of 43 individual documents (15 of which were released in April) and some 10,000 pages, with one summary report (about 280 pages) that contains the principal findings and recommendations.  The draft reports will be available on the NIST WTC Web site (http://wtc.nist.gov) at 10 a.m., June 23.  A separate draft report on the collapse of WTC 7 (a 47-story building that fell after the WTC towers) will be released for public comment at a later date.

NIST will brief the media on the above at 10 a.m. on June 23, 2005.  A Webcast of the media briefing will be available for viewing, and the Web address will be posted on both the NIST (http://www.nist.gov) and WTC (http://wtc.nist.gov) Web sites no later than noon Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, June 22.  The NIST public briefing will not be Webcast.



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