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January 28, 2003
Study on 9/11 Pentagon Attack Contains No Surprises
The Pentagon Building Performance Report concludes that original design features–aided by recent upgrades–of the 6.5-million-sq-ft home of the Dept. of Defense were key to limiting collapse after a hijacked airplane slammed into the building.
ENR
January 24, 2003
Member of Team Detailing 911 Pentagon Damage
Results of a study detail how the Pentagon's unusual design enabled the building to withstand the aircraft collision on Sept. 11, 2001, and helped save lives.
Newswise
January 23, 2003
Structure of Pentagon Helped Contain 9/11 Damage, Engineers Say
A team of enigneers from ASCE released a report on the structure of Pentagon buildings, which concluded that several structural features helped the 60-year-old Pentagon withstand the Sept. 11 attacks relatively well.
GovExec.com
January 24, 2003
Pentagon's Sturdy Design Saved Lives, Engineers Find
The study, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, said the sturdiness of the building and the closely spaced columns of reinforced concrete greatly limited the damage from the crash.
New York Times
November 6, 2002
Lessons Drawn From Attack on Pentagon May Stay Secret
The Defense Department, fearing that the strengths and perhaps vulnerabilities of its headquarters were too clearly drawn, has held up the Pentagon study in a classification review and may never allow it to be publicly released.
New York Times
October 4, 2002
Six Finalists Are Selected for Design at Pentagon
The competition to design a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon has been narrowed to six finalists, officials of the Army Corps of Engineers said today.
New York Times
September 11, 2002
New Simulation Shows 9/11 Plane Crash With Scientific Detail
Engineers, computer scientists and graphics technology experts at Purdue University have created the first publicly available simulation to study in detail what theoretically happened in the Pentagon last Sept. 11. Researchers said the simulation could be used as a tool for designing critical buildings.
Purdue University
August 28, 2002
PEs Erase Terror's Scars From Pentagon in Fast-Track Effort
Over the last year, NSPE members and other professional engineers, among many others, have worked tirelessly on a fast-track project to repair the building .
Engineering Times, NSPE
April 16, 2002
Repairing the Pentagon
Done by Sept. 11, 2002 -- that's what the people at the Pentagon hope.
Washington Post
March 15, 2002
Pentagon Reconstruction: Triumph over Terrorism
Six months after terrorists slammed a hijacked jet into the Pentagon, the charred, gaping hole in the building is gone and new five-story walls have risen from the ashes.
Zwire
March 9, 2002
Pentagon Halfway Back In Countdown From Inferno
The renovation program will be completed at 9:38 a.m. on September 11th of this year.
Washington Post
January 30, 2002
Pentagon Crews Making Good On High-Profile Fast-Track Schedule
Construction crews rebuilding the Pentagon had been working 20-hour days, six days a week and were making remarkable progress toward their goal: rebuilding and reoccupying the damaged portion of the Dept. of Defense headquarters on Sept. 11, 2002, the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack.
ENR
November 8, 2001
Munters Water Damage Drying to Save Pentagon
Munters is playing a key role in an all-out effort to return the Pentagon to full use after the September 11th terrorist attack that killed more than 125 military and government workers while ripping a cavernous hole in the side of the Washington, DC building.
Business Wire via Yahoo!
October 12, 2001
Shifts In Structure Are Seen As Pentagon Demolition Begins
To mark the one-month anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, government officials were planning a memorial service scheduled for Oct. 11. If the damaged areas remain stable, demolition crews will move in shortly after the service and take down about 400,000 sq ft of the facility, including about 100 yd of the historic limestone facade.
ENR
October 10, 2001
Structural Shift In Pentagon Could Accelerate Demolition
Construction officials have noticed a slight structural shift in the damaged area of the Pentagon in recent days, possibly signaling the need to demoliish more of the Dept. of Defense headquarters than first envisioned after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Government officials also say that the timetable for demolition work may have to be accelerated.
ENR
September 24, 2001
Pentagon Hires Engineer For Building Systems Assessment
The Pentagon Renovation Office has contracted the Fairfax, Va., office of mechanical-electrical-plumbing engineer Syska & Hennessy Inc. to perform a condition survey of the building systems serving Pentagon Wedges I and II, compromised by the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
ENR
September 20, 2001
Pentagon's Resiliency Amazes Engineers
A structural engineer who spent the week after the airplane attack on the Pentagon assessing the building's structural damage says he is "amazed at the resiliency" of the reinforced concrete frame that remains standing.
ENR
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