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Commerce’s NIST to Hold WTC Investigation Press Briefing in New York
Agency to Issue 2nd Interim Report on Progress of Technical Investigation

For Immediate Release: June 8, 2004
Contact:

Michael E. Newman
(301) 975-3025

When: Friday, June 18, 2004
11 a.m. - noon(EDT)
Where:

Odets Room, Fourth Floor
New York Marriott Marquis Hotel
1535 Broadway
New York City
Who: Lead Investigator Shyam Sunder
World Trade Center Investigation
Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
What: NIST will hold a press briefing to issue a detailed interim report on the progress of its technical building and fire safety investigation of the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

WTC Lead Investigator Shyam Sunder will summarize and answer questions on
the report, including highlights such as:

  • interim findings and accomplishments;
  • working hypotheses for the collapse of the WTC towers and WTC-7;
  • key visual observations on the building, fire and smoke conditions in all three WTC buildings derived from the analysis of collected still and video images;
  • development of computer simulations to model the most probable collapse sequence for the WTC towers and WTC-7;
  • progress in experimental/field work (including the analysis of recovered WTC steel and fire tests); and
  • early results from the analysis of first-person interviews of nearly 1,200 WTC occupants, first responders and families of victims.

Following the briefing, the full report will be available on the NIST WTC investigation Web site, http://wtc.nist.gov.

Media Registration: For security reasons, all media—including production crew members—planning to attend the briefing in person must register by noon EDT on Wednesday, June 17, by calling (301) 975-2762 or sending e-mail to media@nist.gov. Registered media must have proper credentials (a news media badge with photo or a photo ID with a business card) to enter the briefing room.

 

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