$40 Million Needed to Study Performance of WTC Buildings 3/18/2002
It would take $40 million to adequately study the performance of the collapsed twin, 110-story towers of the World Trade Center and surrounding buildings damaged by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said W. Gene Corley, in testimony March 5, in Washington, D.C., before the House Science Committee.
Corley, senior vice president of Construction Technology Laboratories Inc., Skokie, Ill., is leading a 25-person, WTC building performance study team. The team is comprised of volunteers and organized by the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Va. It has been operating with $1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.