[BC] Skyscrapers and fires

[Chuck Lakaytis]

Vincent Dunn is perhaps the worlds leading expert in fighting high rise fires.
http://vincentdunn.com/wtc.html

also this link:

www.nyfd.com


Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering
Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>

>On 5 Mar 2007 at 14:18, Robert Meuser wrote:
>
>>
>>Having lived in NYC during 9/11 and a few blackouts I clearly can see
>>what works and what does not.  I have long ago lost faith in traditional
>>engineering. It delivers too little too late. The design of the World
>>Trade center speaks to that alone.
>
>What was wrong with the design? Execution and governmental interference
>that prevented design execution had much more to do with failure. Originally,
>the buildings were designed to take a hit by fully fuelled 707-323, the
>long range version that took off with >250,000 lbs. of Jet A. That
>was the biggest thing in the air at the time, and the planes that hit
>were only somewhat bigger. If the beams had been encased in asbestos
>cement all the way to the top, the possibility of catastrophic structural
>failure would have been greatly diminished.