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Fire caused collapse of World Trade Center 7: probe: NEW YORK AFP — A raging, long-burning fire caused the collapse of World Trade Center building number 7, which tumbled hours after hijacked jets hit the twin towers on September 11, 2001, investigators said Thursday. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST found that the 47-story building, which...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, collapse, debris, MARKETING, NIST, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2008-08-21
Twin Towers high-wire act immortalized in documentary: LOS ANGELES AFP — New York's World Trade Center will forever be instantly associated with the horrors of September 11, 2001 but a long-forgotten and inspiring perspective of the Twin Towers emerges in a new documentary by British film-maker James Marsh. Titled simply "Man on Wire," Marsh's acclaimed film...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cable, documentary, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2008-08-01
Bond added to New Orleans WTC project: A layer of insurance for the city has been added to the 99-year lease that will transfer control of the iconic World Trade Center into the hands of a private developer. "All parties agreed to a bonded construction contract," said Sean Cummings, executive director of the...; Tags: bond, FINANCE, payment, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2008-07-15
IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Technology Rises With New York Skyline.: LUSTENAU, Austria, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- IDENTEC SOLUTIONS groundbreaking Intelligent Long Range ILR RFID technology is playing an instrumental role in the construction of the monumental Freedom Tower located at the World Trade Center site in downtown Manhattan. Construction of the 1,776...; Tags: construction, downtown, E-mail, SALES, Tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2008-03-03
Yonkers firm wins contract to build WTC foundations: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein announced that Yonkers Contracting Company, Inc. of New York has been awarded contracts to build the foundations for World Trade Center Towers 3 (175 Greenwich Street) and 4 (150 Greenwich Street). "These contracts are the first part of the actual...; Tags: tower, Transportation, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-11-28

Giuliani and the 9/11 Attacks: the attacks on him, that is: RUDY GIULIANI has been leading the national polls in the Republican presidential race for months now, yet no one is entirely sure how much the voters know about him. Are they really aware of his positions on social issues? Do they know the full extent of his record in cleaning...; Tags: attack, MARKETING, North, radio, Republican, SECURITY, Tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-11-05
World Trade Center poorly built, prof says: BERKELEY -- The civil-engineering industry's failure to admit that cost-saving design features led to the World Trade Center collapse amounts to "moral corruption," a UC Berkeley engineering professor said Tuesday. Speaking on campus to memorialize the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Abolhassan Astaneh said his...; Tags: Strategy, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-09-12
New York gets fresh look at trade center tower plans: Just before the sixth anniversary of 9/11, Silverstein Properties unveiled detailed designs for the three office towers it is developing at the World Trade Center site. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The schematics and renderings it presented gave a more in depth picture of the hundreds of thousands of square feet...; Tags: lobby, tower, Tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-09-12
Faulty design felled Twin Towers, says engineering expert: BERKELEY -- The civil-engineering industry's failure to admit that cost-saving design features led to the World Trade Center collapse amounts to "moral corruption," a UC Berkeley engineering professor said Tuesday. Speaking on campus to memorialize the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Abolhassan Astaneh said his...; Tags: Strategy, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-09-12
WTC's design led to collapse, professor says: BERKELEY -- The civil-engineering industry's failure to admit that cost-saving design features led to the World Trade Center collapse amounts to "moral corruption," a UC Berkeley engineering professor said Tuesday. Speaking on campus to memorialize the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Abolhassan Astaneh said...; Tags: Strategy, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-09-12
Professor: Design flaws caused World Trade Center collapse: BERKELEY -- The civil-engineering industry's failure to admit that cost-saving design features led to the World Trade Center collapse amounts to "moral corruption," a University of California, Berkeley, engineering professor said Tuesday. Speaking on campus to memorialize the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Abolhassan...; Tags: Strategy, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-09-12
Mourning gives way to memories: NEW YORK -- In a small glass box lay the artifacts of a son's life. There was a driver's license bearing an address to which Alexander Braginsky would never return after Sept. 11, 2001. There was his employee ID card and a dusty wallet, recovered the...; Tags: ceremony, memory, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-09-11
Israel News Faxx 9/12/2001: Bush Vows Punishment for Terror Attacks.: By VOA News Suicide terrorists have hijacked commercial airliners and smashed them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington - the most visible symbols of U.S. economic and military might. The number of...; Tags: attack, Pentagon, SECURITY, tower, U.S., World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-09-11
Designs unveiled for new 5 WTC: The Port Authority authorized JP Morgan Chase's lease of the southernmost portion of the World Trade Center Site, where the bank has announced it will build a new 1.3 million s/f office tower to house its investment banking operations. Renderings of a conceptual design of the building were also...; Tags: FINANCE, Investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-06-27
Bridging the gap: an analysis of proposed evacuation links at height in the World Trade Center design competition entries: Abstract: The 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Center Towers has created the largest single retrospective analysis of tall building design in the past 40 years. In no field is this more relevant than in the field of evacuation. The case for an 'alternative' design solution for tall building evacuation--allowing...; Tags: analysis, tower, Tower, United, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-06-01
Five years on, rebuilding World Trade Center clears major hurdle: NEW YORK AFP — More than five years after the September 11 attacks, the last major obstacle to rebuilding at Ground Zero has been cleared, opening the way for New York to once again reinvent its dramatic skyline. Developer Larry Silverstein reached a two-billion-dollar deal with seven insurance companies...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Insurance, SECURITY, tower, Tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-05-26
Developers cast doubt on designs and timeline for Freedom Tower: Developers Douglas Durst and Anthony E. Malkin launched a major advertising campaign this week in a bid to block a proposal by Governor Eliot Spitzer and New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to fast track the construction of the Freedom Tower using current design plans. The two industry powerhouses claim...; Tags: Government, Tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-02-28
Tower 5 no good for bank?: JP Morgan Chase is unlikely to build a headquarters tower on the southernmost development parcel at the World Trade Center site, as published reports indicated earlier in the week. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the investment bank was in talks with the Port Authority to purchase...; Tags: bank, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-02-14
ON THE SCENE; 7 WTC FASCINATES THE FASHIONABLE.(Brief article): Byline: BRENNER THOMAS The peripatetic fashion flock seems to have a new architectural obsession: 7 World Trade Center, the first of the iconic towers to be rebuilt after 9/11. The shimmering, parallelogram-shaped office structure has been the site of a series of high-gloss...; Tags: obsession, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-02-12
One World In The Morning, Another In The Afternoon: On the morning of September 11, employees of XCEL FCU were right where they were every other morning, riding the subway to the station in the cavernous base of the World Trade Center, exiting across the crowded platform and riding some of the world's busiest elevators to the 39th floor...; Tags: Manufacturing, SECURITY, tower, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-01-15