conarb
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There has been lots of speculation and conspiracy theories as to the collapse of the World Trade Centers, the NIST report appears to be a whitewash claiming that it was the fires that destroyed the buildings, the AIA has passed a resolution to investigate it.
¹ http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aiab105885.pdf
If NIST is right something is drastically wrong, fire should not bring down steel buildings, I'm glad to see this for a variety of reasons.\ said:WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story high-rise building, suffered a complete collapse; andWHEREAS, on November 20, 2008, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the final report of its three-year investigation into the complete collapse of 7 World Trade Center, which concluded that fires, an unprecedented cause of failure for a modern high-rise building, were the primary cause of failure; and
WHEREAS, the cause of failure identified by the NIST investigation would mean that hundreds of high-rise buildings in the United States are susceptible to similar failure from fire; and
WHEREAS, thousands of members of the architecture and engineering professions, including the 55 sponsors of this resolution, believe the NIST investigation did not adhere to the principles of the scientific method and, as a result, the conclusions of the NIST investigation are fatally flawed. ¹
¹ http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aiab105885.pdf