Comments on: A Potentially Disastrous Design Error

By: Jusper

Jusper — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:05:25 +0000

Just imagine there is another building inside the outer building, turned for 45 degrees. Then it all makes sense.

By: JEyon

JEyon — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:23:54 +0000

a recent re-analysis using modern computer technology has concluded that the building’s ORIGINAL design would have been fine – it was not more susceptible to quartering winds than perpendicular winds – https://europepmc.org/article/MED/34195696

the student who LeMessurier talked to was not Diane Hartley – she expressed her concerns about the danger of quartering winds to an engineer in the NY office before submitting her thesis in April 1978 – LeMessurier always insisted that it was a phone call with a male student in June 1978 that got him to reconsider this original analysis – that man has recently revealed himself – an architect in NJ named Lee DeCarolis – https://onlineethics.org/node/41606 – his story of the phone call jives with LeMessurier’s

after NIST’s analysis – it appears that both Hartley & LeMessurier were wrong about the danger of quartering winds – and the reinforcement was unnecessary

By: Smithy

Smithy — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:13:22 +0000

Funny, nobody seems to have asked if the female student was given a reward for her information. For all the money she saved, let alone the cost in human tragedy, the structural engineer, if not Citigroup, surely should have given her a big big reward.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 14:11:00 +0000

Another year gone? Already?

Also, I believe that the building is still standing.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:54:13 +0000

I am back.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 01:08:04 +0000

And still last, unfortunately.

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 02:42:21 +0000

Last.

By: Randall

Randall — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 21:58:52 +0000

THe integrity of Mr. Meessurier can be contrasted with the lack thereof exhibited by executives at NASA and conrtactor Morton Thiokol thirty years ago to proceed with the launch the space shuttle “Challenger” in spite of their knowledge that the launch might result in a catastrophic failure – which it did.

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:47:55 +0000

I recall watching an amazing TV documentary on this year’s ago, showing how they needed to crawl inside the spaces under the skin that were never expected to have people in them. It was pretty impressive to see video of the welding sparks flying in inside the walls of the building in the dead of night. And phenomenal that they were able to accomplish this without raising an alarmist panic by everyone living in what would have been the crash zone, and even managing to instantiate and disseminate an emergency evacuation plan under the guise of a more seemingly innocuous justification.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:16:19 +0000

DI!

When I went to New York this year, I made sure to go and look at this building, just because I had read this article. It is quite something to look at.