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The World Trade Center - Amazing Facts & Figures
The World Trade Center Built: 1969-1974 Cost: $800,000,000 Designed by: Minoru Yamasaki, Yamasaki and Associates, with Emery Roth and Sons Type: Skyscraper Stories: 110 Maximum Height: 1,727 feet / 526 meters Maximum width: 208 Maximum length: 208 Location: World Trade Center, New York, United States  Original link:   The World Trade Center is a collection of buildings in lower Manhattan. Towers number one and two (the "Twin Towers") were considered the tallest in the world by some people. It depends on how you define "tallest." Including the antenna, tower number one was 521 meters tall. However, including the antenna may also bring building-less antennae and towers into the running, which really mucks things up. The center was constructed on the site of the old Hudson and Manhattan rail terminal. The original plan called for a single 150-story tower, but this design was abandoned as impractical. The twin towers were unusual in that the outer cladding of the building actually carried a large part of the load for the structure. Each floor was suspended from the external walls, rather than the other way around, which is common in most skyscrapers where internal pillars provide the strength, and the walls merely keep the wind out. While intended to provide strength while maximizing rentable office space, this actually proved to be a lifesaving innovation. When each tower was hit by hijacked jumbo jets in 2001 the planes punched holes in the side and did extensive damage inside. But the buildings stayed standing for some time. It was actually the heat from the fire that caused the buildings to collapse. The jets were fully loaded with fuel for transcontinental flight, providing a massive amount of fuel to feed the fire. When the heat inside exceeded 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit the steel holding the floors to the walls weakened, causing each floor to collapse onto the one below. The result was the buildings imploded upon themselves, rather than fell over knocking over countless other buildings in a literal domino-effect.  The following buildings were partially or completely destroyed in the attack:
The following buildings suffered major damage:
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Also,this figures weight totals does not include non combustionable materials such as the toilet fixtures, toilet privacy walls, garbage cans, large dollys, file cabinets, fire extinguishers, plumbing, electric conduit, lighting fixtures, ceiling tile gridwork systems, etc... - __________________
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Want to know whats amazing Keith? Is that it appears not one of those 40,000 door knobs survived. There should have been door knobs and hinges all over the streets below. There should have been door knobs in windshields, on the streets, embedded into car hoods, yet we see not one single door knob. 40,000 door knobs simply what? Vaporized? Not likely. Regardless of the method of demolition. Where are those 40,000 door knobs and the 120,000 heavy gauge industrial steel door hinges? 3 for each door? Or how about the 20,000 doors? See any in the pile at the world trade center? Any? A single one? A single door embedded in someones moon-roof? How about those 120,000 door hinge pins? Where did they go to? I don't recall hearing any stories about how doors or hinges were thrown. There should have been hundreds of such stories.
Where o where did all of that stuff go? Cheers- Phil  REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPATION IN WORLD TRADE CENTER RESCUE, RECOVERY AND/OR CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS RECOVERY: Fresh Kills Statistics: FEMA: World Trade Center Performance Study: WORLD TRADE CENTER DNA IDENTIFICATIONS: THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW PROCESS Video of Fireman saying all they found was 1/2 keyboard from Phone: __________________
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I hear you Phil (I was being somewhat flippant in my above post
 )...On a slightly different subject, what are the current 9/11 research topics for the forum? I have been through many threads going back over months and years and would like to know what you consider the current stuff is. I will try and do my bit but am limited to internet research only (unless there is something specific to the UAE you need to know). Cheers - Keith |
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Gosh, funny you should ask. You know what is most current and needful in my opinion is help on all the passengers and also help on this; We need to make a complete inventory of everything that was in the world trade centers. We have an online spreadsheet we are archiving things in, and can make you access if you want;
But we could use a complete list and working inventory of everything which was on every floor, which is missing from the debris pile; Example; We know know that the WTC, not including WTC 7 had 40,000 door knobs, 20,000 doors, 120,000 industrial strength door hinges, 20,000 door hinge pins and 480,000 heavy gauge screws; 4 for each side of the hinge, and 3 hinges per door, x 20,000 is 480,000 screws. Just for the doors. This does not include the metal door frames; thus we have also 20,000 door frames which should be in the debris pile; We need a complete inventory of the contents of all 3 towers, 1,2-7. As well as any help you want to give with the passengers that we broke ground on. So whats your poison? Cheers- Phil  __________________
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World Trade Center Facts  1.The WTC opened in 1970 after 8 years of construction. 2.The WTC was the dream of David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Nelson Rockefeller, former Governor of New York. 3.The Rockefellers wanted to name the towers after themselves, but the mayor of NY, John Lindsay, insisted on the World Trade Center. 4.The City chose to build the WTC instead of building a new tunnel and large bridge over the Hudson River. 5.The World Trade Center was designed by architect Minoura Yamasaki. 6.According to Yamasaki, downtown Manhattan was the perfect place to erect the towers because there wasn't "a single building worth saving in the eighborhood." 7.Owners of nearby buildings disagreed, and delayed demolition by three weeks with their protests. 8.Sixteen blocks were cleared to house the completed WTC. 9.More than 10,000 workers involved in building the complex. 10.More than 60 of them died during construction. 11.The excavation work displaced enough soil to create Liberty Park, where four 60-floor towers and four apartment buildings were constructed. 12.The WTC's foundations were laid at 60 feet below ground level. 13.The complex covered 16 acres when finished. 14.In addition to the towers, five other office buildings made up the WTC complex The WTC had 12 million square feet of space. 15.Each floor was 50,000 square feet. 16.The buildings had their own ZIP codes - 10047 and 10048. 17.The towers were designed to look like a futuristic sculpture. 18.The structure was revolutionary. Its main supports were external, lining the four corners of each tower. 19.Critics condemned the completed buildings as "boring." 20.Completed, the buildings were 100 feet taller then the Empire State building. 21.Until the construction of Chicago's Sears Tower and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the twin towers were the world's tallest buildings. 22.The North Tower's 347 foot radio tower technically allowed the WTC to still call itself the world's tallest building. 23.The towers were different heights. The South tower was 1,362 feet tall, and big brother North tower was 1,368. 24.Sixty-eight miles of steel were used in the construction of the buildings. 25.The concrete poured was enough to build a road from New York to Washington, DC 26.The steel inside the WTC could have made three more Brooklyn Bridges. 27.The Twin Towers had more than 16 miles of staircases. 28.There were 43,600 windows. 29.The windows were small to reduce the of heat or cold entering the building. Regular size windows would have made the heat unbearable in the summertime. 30.The WTC's 600,000 square feet of glass was cleaned by an automatic machine. 31.The building had 20,000 elevator doors. 32.Of the WTC's 239 banks of elevators, one was known as the fastest in the U.S. 33.The main elevators at 27 feet a second reached the top in less than a minute. 34.There were 828 emergency exit doors. 35.23,000 fluorescent light bulbs lit the interior. 36.Originally, there were no light switches in the towers, because energy prices were one-third less than they are today. In 1982,switches were installed. 37.12,000 miles of electrical cable snaked through the building, supplying power to 15 trading floors for stockbrokers. 38.The 75,000 telephones were maintained by 19,600 miles of cable. 39.There were more than 300 computer mainframes on site. 40.The WTC used more power in one day than most small American cities. 41.Steam supplied by a plant on New York's East River was used to heat the buildings. 42.The buildings housed 49,000 tons of air-conditioning equipment. 43.More than 250,000 cans of paint were needed every year for upkeep of the Towers. 44.The surrounding shopping center complex included 3250,000 square feet of restaurants and stores. 45.Six banks, five investment firms and three insurance companies called their headquarters there, in the building. 46.The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had its headquarters in the building. 47.American Express had three floors in the WTC. 48.The WTC was home base for Bank of America. 49.The trade center housed two top restaurants - the Windows on the World and Wild Blue. 50.Windows on the World had one of the best vintage wine collections in the United States. 51.More than 50,000 people worked in the twin towers. 52.By 9 a.m. each weekday morning, the buildings had an average of 35,000 employees at their desks. 53.More than 200,000 people - half of them tourists - moved through the buildings each day. 54.The South Tower had an observation deck that was visited by more than 26,000 people a day. 55.An information sign at the top assured visitors that the buildings had been designed to withstand airplane crashes. 56.The towers could be seen from at least 20 miles away. 57.On a clear day, it was possible to see for 45 miles in every direction from the observation deck. 58.The express elevator to the observation deck was the largest in the U.S. with a 55-person capacity. 59.Every president since 1973 paid a visit to the landmark. 60.President Ronald Reagan watched July 4th fireworks celebrations from the WTC on two occasions. 61.Superstars Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli all sang in WTC restaurants. 62.Two New York TV stations incorporated the twin tower image into their logos. 63.The towers served 10 New York TV stations with 10 antennas on the top. 64.More postcards of the WTC were sent each year than any other building in the world. 65.In 1974, a Frenchman, Phillipe Petit, strung a tightrope between the two towers and walked across. 66.Three men successfully parachuted from the top of the towers. 67.More than a dozen mountain climbers have scaled the building. 68.In 1975 a jobless construction worker parachuted from the South Tower to publicize the plight of the unemployed. 69.The most famous man to climb the building was George Willig - who was arrested at the top. Willig was fined one penny for each of the 110 floors he scaled. 70.Last year, a man in a micro-light aircraft crashed into the North Tower. 71.In the concourse beneath the towers, there were more than 75 stores. 72.Each day, over 150,000 commuters passed through the three subway stations there. 73.Eighty-seven tons of food was delivered to the building each day. 74.Over 30,000 cups of coffee were poured daily in the basement cafes. 75.Twenty-two doctors had practices there. 76.Seventeen babies were born on the site. 77.Irv Silverstein recently bought the WTC for almost $3.2 billion. 78.The WTC generated $110 million a year in profit. 79.More than three dozen movies have been filmed there. 80.The best known film to use the WTC as a location was the 1976 remake of King Kong. 81.The 1993 bombing of the WTC killed six people and injured 1,000 more. 1,300 pounds of explosives ripped through the garage in the 1993 attack. 82.That bomb created a crater 16 feet deep and badly damaged inner support beams. 83.Before the 1993 attack, there were three closed circuit television networks for security. 84.After the bombing, the cameras were increased to 300 monitored by computers. 85.More than 300 security guards worked there. 86.The WTC featured security centers on 14 different floors and its own police station. 87.The entrance lobbies had 16 concierge desks and 12 X-ray machines. 88.After the first bombing, no one could get inside the buildings without an ID check. 89.It took an average of five minutes for a visitor to pass through security checks. 90.Before the 1993 bombing, there were more than 1,000 parking spaces beneath the buildings; 600 remained afterward. 91.All vehicles using the parking lot had to show FBI security passes. 92.On Sept. 11, the building was 95 percent full, with over 400 tenants. 93.New York Gov. George Pataki had an office in the WTC, but wasn't there when the disaster struck. 94.Both the Secret Service and the FBI rented office space there. 95.$110.3 million in gold and 120.7 million in silver is buried in the rubble. 96.The combined weight of the towers was more than 1.5 million tons. 1Each tower was built to safely sway about three feet during strong wind storms. 97.Blue Cross-Blue Shield, New York's largest health insurance company, moved into the building 3 years ago. 98.Nine chapels serving six different faiths called the WTC home. 99.Twenty-nine countries had trade mission offices in the buildings. 100. Every major U.S. airline had ticket offices inside the WTC. 101.It is the first skyscraper in the world destroyed by terrorists ================================================== ================== __________________
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 The World Trade Center Height: 1,368 and 1,362 feet (417 and 415 meters) Owners: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth and Sons consulting Engineer: John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson Ground Breaking: August 5, 1966 Opened: 1970-73; April 4, 1973 ribbon cutting Destroyed: September 11, 2001 The World Trade Center was more than its signature twin towers: it was a complex of seven buildings on 16-acres, constructed and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The towers, One and Two World Trade Center, rose at the heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 feet higher than the silver mast of the Empire State Building. Construction of a world trade facility had been under consideration since the end of WWII. In the late 1950s the Port Authority took interest in the project and in 1962 fixed its site on the west side of Lower Manhattan on a superblock bounded by Vesey, Liberty, Church and West Streets. Architect Minoru Yamasaki was selected to design the project; architects Emery Roth & Sons handled production work, and, at the request of Yamasaki, the firm of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson served as engineers. The Port Authority envisioned a project with a total of 10 million square feet of office space. To achieve this, Yamasaki considered more than a hundred different building configurations before settling on the concept of twin towers and three lower-rise structures. Designed to be very tall to maximize the area of the plaza, the towers were initially to rise to only 80-90 stories. Only later was it decided to construct them as the world's tallest buildings, following a suggestion said to have originated with the Port Authority's public relations staff. Yamasaki and engineers John Skilling and Les Robertson worked closely, and the relationship between the towers' design and structure was clear. Faced with the difficulties of building to unprecedented heights, the engineers employed an innovative structural model: a rigid "hollow tube" of closely spaced steel columns with floor trusses extended across to a central core. The columns, finished with a silver-colored aluminum alloy, were 18 3/4" wide and set only 22" apart, making the towers appear from afar to have no windows at all. Also unique to the engineering design were its core and elevator system. The twin towers were the first supertall buildings designed without any masonry. Worried that the intense air pressure created by the buildingsâ high speed elevators might buckle conventional shafts, engineers designed a solution using a drywall system fixed to the reinforced steel core. For the elevators, to serve 110 stories with a traditional configuration would have required half the area of the lower stories be used for shaftways. Otis Elevators developed an express and local system, whereby passengers would change at "sky lobbies" on the 44th and 78th floors, halving the number of shaftways. Construction began in 1966 and cost an estimated $1.5 billion. One World Trade Center was ready for its first tenants in late 1970, though the upper stories were not completed until 1972; Two World Trade Center was finished in 1973. Excavation to bedrock 70 feet below produced the material for the Battery Park City landfill project in the Hudson River. When complete, the Center met with mixed reviews, but at 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world's tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower surpassed them both in 1974. The Skyscraper Museum __________________
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Office Of Chief Medical Examiner - World Trade Center Operational Statistics
To view this pdf as it was written and formatted; Can anyone find out the name of the Doctor who held the office of Chief Medical Examiner? Because I cry foul on his honesty, and want to know everything about him and his staff who were serving him and his office on and after 9/11. He is a suspect and is responsible for being a co-conspirator inasmuch as he had something to do with creating the many fictions of 911 that we are now investigating. Why isn't his/her name on the report along with the staff who made these findings and published them in the public record?
Cheers- Phil Original link: Office Of Chief Medical Examiner World Trade Center Operational Statistics Reported Missing: 2750 Remains Recovered: 21741 Victims Identified: 1621 Remains Identified: 11866 55% 59% *Victims Who Died Outside NYC: 3 Remains Not Identified: 9875 45% Victims Not Identified: 1126 41% New York City Identification Breakdown Total Identified: 1621 Victims Identified By A Single Modality: 998 Victims Identified By Multiple Modalities: 623 1 D N A 876 88% 2 Dental X-Ray 54 5% 3 Fingerprints 35 4% 4 Photo 9 1% 5 Remains Viewed 13 1% 7 Personal Effects 8 1% 9 Other 3 0% 998 D N A 564 91% Dental X-Ray 475 76% Fingerprints 270 43% Photo 16 3% Remains Viewed 2 0% Body X-Ray 3 0% Personal Effects 70 11% Tattoos 6 1% Other 46 7% Note: the total here exceeds 100% because modalities overlap; there are over 40 Death Certification combinations of modalities in use. Total Reported Missing: 2750 New York City Death Certificates Issued: 2747 Non New York City Death Certificates Issued: 3 No Death Certificate Issued: 0 New York City Death Certificate Breakdown DX (Judicial Decree) Certificate Only: 1126 DM (Physical Remains) Certificate Only: 410 Total Physical Remains Certificates: 1621 **DM After DX: 1211 2747 * Victims were transported to facilities outside of New York, where they later died of their injuries. ** The family obtained a DX certificate; later we identified remains and issued a physical remains certificate. LR_IDandDCStats Printed June 2, 2008 At: 12:20 PM 1 __________________
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