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Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, March 6, 2002: âIn the month that lapsed between the terrorist attacks and the deployment of the [FEMA Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT Team)], a significant amount of steel debrisâincluding most of the steel from the upper floorsâwas removed from the rubble pile, cut into smaller sections, and either melted at the recycling plant or shipped out of the U.S. Some of the critical pieces of steelâincluding the suspension trusses from the top of the towers and the internal support columnsâwere gone before the first BPAT team member ever reached the site. Fortunately, an NSF-funded independent researcher, recognizing that valuable evidence was being destroyed, attempted to intervene with the City of New York to save the valuable artifacts, but the city was unwilling to suspend the recycling contract.â Joseph Crowley, U.S. Congressman, 7th District, New York: â[T]here is so much that has been lost in these last six months that we can never go back and retrieve. And that is not only unfortunate, it is borderline criminal.â
Jonathan Barnett, PhD, FEMA BPAT Investigator: âNormally when you have a structural failure, you carefully go through the debris field looking at each item â photographing every beam as it collapsed and every column where it is in the ground and you pick them up very carefully and you look at each element. We were unable to do that in the case of Tower 7.â http://buildingwhat.org/destruction-of-evidence/
Control of the WTC cleanup In the aftermath of the attacks, protocol for disaster cleanup and investigations was not followed. According to the New York Times: âIn other disasters, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies have played a more central role in making decisions about cleanup and investigations. But from the start, they found that New York had a degree of engineering and construction expertise unlike any they had encountered. ââThey wanted to do a lot of things on their own,â said Charles Hess, who is in charge of civil emergency management for the Army Corps.â New York Cityâs Department of Design and Construction (DDC) took control of the site as a result of Mayor Giulianiâs âback-room decision to scrap the organization charts, to finesse the cityâs own Office of Emergency Management (OEM), and to allow the DDC to proceedâ: â[T]here was a shift in power in their direction that was never quite formalized and, indeed, was unjustified by bureaucratic logic or political considerations. The Cityâs official and secret emergency plans, written before the attack, called for the Department of Sanitation to clean up after a building collapse. A woman involved in writing the latest versions â a midlevel official in the OEM â mentioned to one of the contractors a week after the Trade Center collapse that she still did not quite know what the DDC was.â DDC Deputy Commissioner Michael Burton showed complete disregard for the need to preserve the evidence: âBurton, who had become the effective czar for the cleanup job, had made it clear that he cared very little about engineering subtleties like the question of why the towers first stood, then collapsed on September 11. âWe know why they fell,â he said. âBecause they flew two planes into the towers.â But he was deeply immersed in the details of hauling steel out of the debris pile.â By September 28, 2001, 130,000 tons of debris had already been removed from the site,[viii] in what one journalist with unrestricted access to the site called, âthe most aggressive possible schedule of demolition and debris removal.â
The decision to destroy the physical evidence According to New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton: â[O]fficials at the Department of Design and Construction, including Michael Burton, had decided to ship virtually all of the steel to scrap yards, where it would be cut up, shipped away, and melted down for reuse before it was inspected⦠Burton cleared the decision with Richard Tomasetti of Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers. Months later, Tomasetti would say that had he known the direction that investigations into the disaster would take, he would have adopted a different stance. But the decision to quickly melt down the trade center steel had been made.â However, Mr. Tomasettiâs alleged ignorance of the need to save the steel is questionable given his knowledge of engineering investigations, and given that his business partner, Charles Thornton, was a lead member on the team of engineers initially assembled by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to investigate the cause of the collapses. The ASCE team, which later became the FEMA Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT), reportedly requested early on that the steel be saved. According to Times reporters Glanz and Lipton: â[O]n September 28, the New York Times learned that the city was recycling the steel. When the Times contacted Kenneth R. Holden, commissioner of the Department of Design and Construction, he said that no one from the investigative team had asked him to keep or inspect the steel. The ASCE, it turned out, had faxed a request, but to the wrong fax machine. Late that afternoon, after reporters shuttled the correct fax number to the ASCE, Holden said that a request had finally reached him.â By September 28, the DDC is publicly known to have been aware of the BPATâs request for the steel to be saved, however, the decision to recycle the steel stood. Mayor Giuliani â previously a U.S. Attorney â and the DDC had to be fully aware of the illegality of destroying physical evidence prior to their decision to recycle the steel. Their refusal to desist from recycling the steel when asked by the investigative team to do so â still less than three weeks into the cleanup effort, with hundreds of thousands of tons of steel still salvageable, and relatively negligible revenue from selling the steel â raises serious questions about the intent of their actions.
Explosive Residues Independent researchers have discovered a highly engineered explosive-incendiary material in several dust samples collected near the WTC site. In their paper, entitled Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, nine researchers, led by chemist Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen, conclude: â[T]he red layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material.â http://buildingwhat.org/explosive-residues/
Sulfidated Steel Ignoring the Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations put out by the National Fire Protection Association, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) did not test for evidence of explosives, because, according to NIST spokesperson Michael Newman, âIf youâre looking for something that isnât there, youâre wasting your time⦠and the tax payersâ money.â NIST also claimed that no steel was recovered from Building 7. While it is true that virtually all of the steel from Building 7 was destroyed illegally, this claim blatantly contradicted by Appendix C of the FEMA Building Performance Study, which called for further study of a piece of steel recovered from Building 7 that had experienced a âsevere high temperature corrosion attack.â The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Journal, Transformations, described this piece of steel, saying: âA one-inch column has been reduced to half-inch thickness. Its edgesâwhich are curled like a paper scrollâhave been thinned to almost razor sharpness. Gaping holesâsome larger than a silver dollarâlet light shine through a formerly solid steel flange. This Swiss cheese appearance shocked all of the fire-wise professors, who expected to see distortion and bendingâbut not holes.â http://buildingwhat.org/sulfidated-steel/