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September 24, 2003
Learning From 9/11, Bloomberg Seeks High-Rise Safety Changes
Legislation that would enact most of the fire safety improvements for tall buildings recommended by a task force that studied the World Trade Center collapse was announced yesterday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
New York Times
August 25, 2003
EPA Watchdog Rips White House on NYC Air
At the White House's direction, the Environmental Protection Agency wrongly told New Yorkers not to worry about health risks of debris-laden air from the World Trade Center collapse, the agency's watchdog says in a report.
AP via Guardian Unlimted
May 30, 2003
9/11 Has Led To Greater Prudence in Engineering Design
O'Rourke, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor in Cornell University's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his team have spent the past two years analyzing the impacts that brought down the twin towers. The results of the group's study will be a chapter in a book to be published this summer, Impacts of and Human Response to the September 11, 2001 Disasters: What Research Tells Us (Natural Hazards Research and Information Center, 2003).
Science Daily
January 28, 2008
Twin towers 'created ash footprint'
The collapse of the World Trade Center may have left a permanent chemical record on the bottom of the Hudson River.
BBC
January 20, 2003
Scientists find geochemical fingerprint of World Trade Center collapse
The study provides new information for assessing the potential environmental and human health impact of the World Trade Center catastrophe, and for validating sediment and contaminant transport models already developed for the lower Hudson River estuary.
EurekAlert
December 23, 2002
WTC Dust Analysis Offers Good News for New Yorkers
A team of researchers tested debris from the collapsed towers for toxic organic chemicals and found that the potential risk of exposure from inhaling such compounds was lower than expected.
EurekAlert
November 13, 2002
WTC attacks cost NY over $33 billion
Government experts say the financial toll of the terrorist attacks on New York City amounts to $33 billion to $36 billion in lost wages and business, property damage and cleanup.
AP via Averdeen American News
December 13, 2001
Utilities Under World Trade Center Held Up Remarkably
Despite the huge loss of life and the massive damage caused by the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, the utility systems beneath the buildings "held up remarkably well." This is the report of a Cornell University engineer with wide experience in investigating disasters.
UniSci Daily News
December 3, 2001
Ground Zero's Fires Still Burning
Almost 12 weeks after the terrorist atrocity at New York's World Trade Center, there is at least one fire still burning in the rubble - it is the longest-burning structural fire in history.
New Scientist
November 16, 2001
Fall of Towers Was Like Earthquake
The collapse of the south tower generated shaking of a magnitude of 2.1. When the north tower fell, the shaking reached a magnitude of 2.3, according to researchers at Columbia University.
Chicago Tribune
October 29, 2001
Toxic Chemicals Released from World Trade Center Wreckage
Toxic materials are continuing to be released from the smouldering wreckage of the World Trade Center - some at levels far in excess of national safety levels, according to US government agency reports.
New Scientist
October 24, 2001
A Skyline Is Conspicuous by an Absence
These days, capturing the New York skyline — on canvas, on film, with the naked eye — has become a complicated, even emotionally wrenching act. The towers are such powerful symbols that they overshadow everything — whether they are present or absent.
New York Times
October 19, 2001
Newcastle University Professor to Spearhead World Trade Center Insurance Investigation
A Professor from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne has been confirmed as the man who will advise Lloyds insurance company as they begin to assess insurance claims expected to exceed £1.5 billion dollars in the wake of the attack on New York’s World Trade Center on 11 September.
AlphaGalileo
October 16, 2001
U.S. Buildings Face Higher Insurance after Attacks
The attack on the World Trade Center has sent insurance costs soaring for companies with large office operations, especially in places thought to be at high risk, adding to financial strain on firms and throwing new property developments into doubt.
Reuters via Yahoo!
October 12, 2001
NYC Area on Endangered List
The World Monuments Fund, which every two years puts out a list of the world's 100 most endangered historic architectural and cultural sites, is adding one more to the list at the last minute.
USA Today
October 11, 2001
WTC Leaseholder Asks for Help From Lawsuits-WSJ
World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein is asking Congress to protect him from potentially billions of dollars in lawsuits from victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Thursday.
Washington Post
October 10, 2001
Some Still Fear Environmental Hazards near World Trade Center Site
Four weeks after the collapse of the World Trade Center, New Yorkers are wearing dust masks on the streets downtown and hiring industrial cleanup crews to remove asbestos from their offices and apartments.
ENN
October 10, 2001
Aviation Fuel Spread Rapidly through World Trade Center Towers
The World Trade Centre towers were comparatively lightweight structures but still managed to absorb the colossal kinetic energy of the doomed airliners without suffering immediate catastrophic trauma. What did the real damage in New York was the 80,000l of aviation kerosene each 767 was carrying.
New Civil Engineer Plus
October 10, 2001
Infrastructure Task Force Set up in Aftermath of New York Destruction
Leading New York engineers have convened to examine the role of the engineering profession in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. The group known as the Infrastructure Task Force aims to provide technical insights that could be applied to other cities worldwide in times of crisis.
New Civil Engineer Plus
October 10, 2001
Nation Struggles With Issue Of Protecting Infrastructure
An Oct. 6 FBI advisory to thousands of U.S. law-enforcement agencies and private companies on security threats came as a scarcely needed reminder that the nation no longer has the luxury of complacency. Managers of U.S. infrastructure didn't receive that same notice directly, but many already realized the vulnerability of water, transportation, energy and telecommunications facilities since Sept. 11 and are expanding protective efforts.
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