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 On June 23rd the US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will conduct a briefing in New York City on the draft recommendations from its building and fire safety investigation into the collapses of the World Trade Center towers following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. The recommendations seek improvements in the way people design, construct, maintain and use buildings to increase both structural integrity and building, occupant and emergency responder safety. They will be released, along with the complete WTC towers investigation report, for a six-week public comment period.
The towers report consists of 43 individual documents (15 of which were released in April) and some 10,000 pages. A separate draft report on the collapse of WTC 7 (a 47-story building that fell after the WTC towers) will be released for public comment at a later date.
A comprehensive website on the NIST WTC investigation may be accessed at http://wtc.nist.gov
•Date: 24th May 2005 • Region: US • Type:
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