World Trade Center Building Performance Study-Preliminary Lessons Learned

摘要

Co-Sponsored by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), this morning seminar will explore the preliminary lessons learned from the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The collapse of some buildings and the survival of other buildings affected by the events of September 11 provided new information to the fire protection and structural engineering communities about the behavior of tall buildings exposed to fires. Join three members of the FEMA sponsored study team - William Baker, P.E., Partner, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Jonathan Barnett, Ph.D., FSFPE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and James Milke, P.E., Ph.D., FSFPE, University of Maryland for a review of the findings of the FEMA sponsored investigation, including both structural and fire behavior and for insights on implications for the profession. A special focus on the need for interaction between the fire protection and structural engineering professional in design will be presented.