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  Topic: Elevator replacement frauds on a massive scale in NYC
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:10 am   Subject: Elevator replacement frauds on a massive scale in NYC
From Elevator replacement frauds on a massive scale in NYC.

Multimillion elevator works at Stuyvesant Town and Penn South in Manhattan, Riverdale’s Skyview and Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:35 am   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
...the WTC tower's weight has been estimated in "What was the weight of a WTC Tower?" at http://forum.physorg.com/What-was-the-weight-of-a-WTC-Tower_4299.html. It is possible that officially it was o ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:50 am   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
The main question remains, how the exterior columns lost their lateral support (increasing their slenderness and causing buckling).
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:30 pm   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
Everything started from the failing floors (sagging, disjointing or disintegrating), without which the exterior columns would not have buckled at all. On th other hand, these columns would have buckl ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:02 pm   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
No mx2!
The external columns were almost square in cross-section and rotating them would not have helped; their shape was needed to access screws joining them. The inner core columns could not have ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:02 am   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
The exterior columns were tubular, and their properties to be heated were not bad, since air could circulate inside cooling them a little bit, and their front surface was cooled by a quite chilly 10-1 ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:52 pm   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
Elisa,
It is nice to see your pretty face in addition to read, what you wrote.

An uneven expansion of floors seems to be the cause of WTC collapse. The heat was ascending up to the first intact f ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:17 pm   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
Dear SDR,
“WTC2 should not have pancaked faster or/or sooner than WTC1, considering that there was perhaps twice the mass above the fire in 2 as in 1”, because the effected columns in the ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:29 pm   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
Also, WTC 2 was hit twice as low from the roof than WTC 1, so the columns in the WTC 2’s impact zone were much heavier than in the WTC 1’s zone of impact. Obviously, the heavier columns i ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:29 am   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
I am saying that no evidence was ever found that any core columns had been cut at all, and only max. 2 core columns could have been cut by only two engine shafts from each airplane, but one engine fle ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:20 pm   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
There was not found even the slightest piece of core column indicating any severe physical damage from the airplane impact supporting the NIST’s theory. Without such evidence, the essential rol ...
  Topic: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:55 pm   Subject: World Trade Center - was building responsible for collapse?
Dear -,
The considerations by Professor Abolhassen Astaneh-Asl, you referred to (http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6363426.html?nid=2332&rid=#reg_visitor_id_2), are inconsistent with ...
  Topic: Freedom Tower news
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:57 am   Subject: Freedom Tower news
...what about something small and tasteful amongst trees - all for up to $0.5B instead of $1B? Remember, the Libeskind’s concept called for a bombastic solution (giving him an opportunity to design t ...
  Topic: Freedom Tower news
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 9:53 pm   Subject: Freedom Tower news
People supported wide life, cancer research, affordable and masterful Vietnam Memorial, etc. but not the continuous effort by the Emperor Pataki (using the 9/11 tragedy) to rip off the public this tim ...
  Topic: Freedom Tower news
tenenbaum

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PostForum: Architecture Forum   Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:23 pm   Subject: Freedom Tower news
Another proof that the original "Master" Plan by Libeskind was selfish and unsupported:

THE CHRONICLE

MOST NEW YORKERS SKIP DONATION FOR 9/11 MEMORIAL

NEW YORK, May 26, 2006 -- Fewer than 15, ...
 
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