Category talk:Engineering failures
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Hmmm, the Tay Bridge disaster (shown on the 12/28 this day in history) led me to here, which includes collapsed buildings, including the World Trade Center. I do not believe that the WTC was an engineering failure, and should not be included in this sense. Two independent commissions on the collapse agree with me. CodeCarpenter 16:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- Which commissions are they and what, exactly, did they say?--agr 19:59, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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- The second paragraph of the Collapse article provides the FEMA and NIST study results. Quoted from the article Collapse of the World Trade Center
- "The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a performance study of the buildings in May 2002, declaring the WTC design sound and attributing the collapses wholly to extraordinary factors beyond the control of the builders.[2] In its September 2005 report, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) concurred with this view, noting that the severity of the attacks and the magnitude of the destruction was beyond anything experienced in US cities in the past. It did add, however, that the towers' stairwell design lacked adequate reinforcement.[3]"
- These are the second and third citations in the article. "^ a b c d e Hamburger, Ronald, et al. World Trade Center Building Performance Study (pdf). Federal Emergency Management Agency. Retrieved on July 27, 2006. and ^ a b Snell, Jack, S. Shyam Sunder (November 12, 2002). NIST Response to the World Trade Center Disaster (pdf). National Institute of Standards and Technology. Retrieved on July 27, 2006. "
- On a side note, having the name Ronald Hamburger must be rough... CodeCarpenter 14:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC).
- The second paragraph of the Collapse article provides the FEMA and NIST study results. Quoted from the article Collapse of the World Trade Center
