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Engineering, Building Construction, and Building Collapse

Kamin, Blair. "Towers Were Symbol of Might; Engineers Stunned by Collapse of New York Landmarks." Chicago Tribune, September 11, 2001, 4.

Berger, Eric and James Kimberly. "Towers' Great Strength Saved Lives, Experts Say." Houston Chronicle, September 12, 2001, A32.

Chandler, Mary Voelz and Jim Erickson. "Engineer: Jet Fuel Melted Girders." Rocky Mountain News, September 12, 2001, 52A.

Collison, Kevin. "Towers Succumbed to Stress, Intense Heat." The Kansas City Star, September 12, 2001, A9.

Cook, Gareth and Thomas C. Palmer, Jr. "Observers Say Fire May Have Felled Towers." The Boston Globe, September 12, 2001, A8.

Duffy, Robert R., and Susan Thomson. "Twin Towers that Withstood Bomb Couldn't Withstand Jetliner Attacks; WU Professor Says Severe Oscillation, Heat from Fire Caused Columns to Buckle." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 2001, A4.

Feeney, Mary K. "A Strategic Strike; Fire, More Than Planes' Impact, Caused Collapse of Twin Towers." The Hartford Courant, September 12, 2001, D3.

Glanz, James. "Towers Believed to Be Safe Proved Vulnerable to an Intense Jet Fuel Fire, Experts Say." The New York Times, September 12, 2001, A3.

Gugliotta, Guy. "'Magnitude Beyond Anything We'd Seen Before'; Towers Built to Last but Unprepared for Such an Attack." The Washington Post, September 12, 2001, A18.

Herman, Eric. "Towers Were Doomed As Soon As Planes Hit; Impact, Blazes Gave Frail Buildings No Chance." New York Daily News, September 12, 2001, 48.

Kamin, Blair. "Engineers Seek Answers After Mighty Towers Fall." Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2001, 11.

LaFee, Scott. "What Made Towers Crumble; Experts Differ on Relative Import of Fire and Jet Impact." The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 12, 2001, A7.

Mangels, John. "Fires Fed by Jet Fuel Forced Towers Down." The Plain Dealer, September 12, 2001, A2.

McFarling, Usha Lee. "2 Planes Hit Twin Towers at Exactly the Worst Spot; Collapse: Structural Engineers Say the Terrorists Apparently Knew They Had to Strike the World Trade Center As Low As Possible to Cause the Most Damage." The Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2001 4.

Meyer, Michal and Stuart Winer. "WTC Planner: Collapse 'Unbelievable.'" The Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2001, 7.

O'Donnell, Frank. "Impact That Shattered Monuments to New York's Towering Force." The Scotsman, September 12, 2001, 6.

Perlman, David. "Jets Hit Towers in Most Vulnerable Spots; Killers Appear to Have Known Where to Strike." The San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2001, A13.

Traikos, Michael and Michelle Dacruz. "Towers Could Withstand Great Forces; Crashes Too Much." The Toronto Sun, September 12, 2001, S32.

Gunts, Edward. "Engineers Blame Collapses on Fires; Burning Jet Fuel's Heat Softened Steel Supports of WTC Towers, They Say; Sprinklers Disabled, Outmatched." The Baltimore Sun, September 13, 2001, 19A.

Lieberman, David. "Extreme Heat, 'Pancaking' Doom Towers Into Rubble." USA Today, September 13, 2001, 6A.

Rayman, Graham and Dan Janison. "Destruction Collapses More Than Towers." New York Newsday, September 13, 2001, W47.

Shifrel, Scott and Eric Herman. "It Was the Heat, Not the Impact, That Felled WTC; Experts Say No Bldg. Could Survive Such Damage." New York Daily News, September 13, 2001, 61.

Herman, Eric. "Fear Other Downtown Buildings Are in Jeopardy; Could Have Been Weakened by Blasts, Debris." New York Daily News, September 14, 2001, 14.

Meek, James. "Attack on America: Plane Crash Fireballs Brought the Towers Down: Destroyed Landmark Absorbed Initial Impact but Intense Heat Weakened Building's Columns." The Guardian (London), September 14, 2001, 6.

Henderson, Mark. "At the Mercy of Melting Steel." The Times (London), September 17, 2001.

Howell, Ron. "Terrorist Attacks; Like London in the Blitz; Praising City's Bravery, Rudy Rallies NYers." New York Newsday, September 17, 2001, W03.

Post, Nadine M. and Sherie Winston. "Massive Assault Doomed Towers." Engineering News-Record (September 17, 2001): 10.

Vergano, Dan. "Experts Seek Safety in Future Buildings." USA Today, September 18, 2001, 16C.

Brown, David. "Property - Buildings Damage in New York Estimated to Be Pounds 7BN." The Independent (London), September 21, 2001, 2.

"Response Under Scrutiny." Building Design (September 21, 2001): 1.

Lewis, Roger K. "No Building Code, Architect or Engineer Could Have Protected Trade Center Towers." The Washington Post, September 22, 2001, H3.

Perry, Tony. "Towers' Basement Holds an Engineering Nightmare; Rebuilding: The Stability of a Huge Wall Holding Back the Hudson River Is in Question Now That Rubble Jams the Subterranean Structure." The Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2001, 3.

"WTC Engineer Speaks." Architectural Record (October 2001): 56.

Post, Nadine M., and William J. Angelo. "Redundancy Can 'Buy' Time Between Attacks and Collapse." Engineering News-Record (October 1, 2001): 17.

Chang, Kenneth. "Scarred Steel Holds Clues, and Remedies." The New York Times, October 2, 2001, F1.

Glanz, James. "From Torn Steel, Cold Data of Salvage." The New York Times, October 9, 2001, B13.

Starkman, Dean. "Engineer Defends Fallen Towers." The Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2001, B1.

Starkman, Dean. "Lessons from the Rubble --- Architects and Engineers Study Stairwells, Building Material to Bolster Future Skyscrapers." The Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2001, B1.

Davidson, Keay. "Berkeley Professor Seeks the Safer Skyscraper; UC Academic Searches for Answers in World Trade Center Wreckage." San Francisco Chronicle, October 22, 2001, A4.

Worthington, Peter. "House of Cards; Twin Towers' Collapse Was an Unexpected Bonus for Terrorists." The Toronto Sun, October 26, 2001.

Calderone, Joe and Thomas Zambito. "Learning from Towers Disaster." New York Daily News, October 28, 2001, 23.

Labossiere, Regine. "And Students Shall Lead Them; Workers Use Cooper Union Model to Navigate Through Ground Zero." New York Newsday, November 3, 2001, A20.

Qureshi, Shadid Ahmed. "Millennium Dome to Conceal WTC Site." Frontier Post (Pakistan), November 4, 2001.

Van Voorhis, Scott. "Safety Concerns Play Bigger Role in Construction." The Boston Herald, November 4, 2001, 8.

Cook, Gareth. "Tragedies Inspire Many High-Tech Concepts for High-Rise Escapes." The Boston Globe, November 6, 2001, C1.

Glanz, James. "In Collapsing Towers, a Cascade of Failures." The New York Times, November 11, 2001, B1.

Glanz, James. "Why Trade Center Towers Stood, Then Fell." The New York Times, November 11, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/nyregion/11COLL.html?todaysheadlines

Post, Nadine M. "Officials Welcome Student-Built Model Of Damaged WTC 'Bathtub'." Engineering News-Record, November 12, 2001, 16.

McFarling, Usha Lee. "Finding Hope in the Ruins." The Los Angeles Times, November 15, 2001. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-111501hassan.story

Seabrook, John. "Why Did the World Trade Center Buildings Fall Down When They Did?" The New Yorker, November 19, 2001, 64.

Cauchon, Dennis. "For Many on Sept. 11, Survival Was No Accident." USA Today, December 19, 2001, 1A.

Glanz, James, and Eric Lipton. "Experts Urging Broader Inquiry in Towers' Fall." The New York Times, December 25, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/nyregion/25TOWE.html?todaysheadlines

Dunlap, David W. "From the Rubble, Icons of Disaster and Faith." The New York Times., December 25, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/nyregion/25NICH.html?todaysheadlines

Comarow, Avery. "Why the Towers Toppled." U.S. News & World Report (December 31, 2001-January 7, 2002): 63.

Ellison, Michael. "A Dream in Ruins: Since September 11, Leslie Robertson Has Not Slept Easy in His Bed. Michael Ellison Talks to the Man Who Designed the World Trade Centre." The Guardian (Manchester, UK), January 22, 2002, 6.

Cho, Aileen, and Andrew G. Wright. "In Post-9/11 World of Concrete, Things Are Harder Than Ever." Engineering News-Record (January 21, 2002): 18.

Farnsworth, Chris. "New Technology May Help Make Buildings Quake- and Bomb-Proof." The Chicago Tribune, January 6, 2002.

Snoonian, Deborah. "Forensics Engineering Expert Studying WTC Steel to Determine Precisely How Towers Failed." Architectural Record (January 2002).

Petroski, Henry. "The Fall of Skyscrapers." American Scientist (January/February 2002): 16.

Updated February 4, 2002

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