21-05-2009, 01:59 AM
Emphases mine
From ENR: Engineering News-Record; 2/28/2005, Vol. 254 Issue 8, p5-5, 2/3pToward Better Design
Letters to the editor
From my perspective as a demolition contractor who worked at the World Trade Center and at catastrophic fire and earthquake sites worldwide, dealing with failed yet standing structural systems, I also have to lean toward a conservative approach. No matter what we do from a design-construction standpoint, a terrorist will find a way around what we do.
This is one case where I agree with U.S. policy — taking the war to the terrorists before they bring it to us. Better we spend money in that regard than on over-design and over-construction that will never, ever, be enough.
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By Leslie Erdosy, P.E.; Lawrence Fischer, P.E. and Mark Loizeaux
Copyright 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Copyright of ENR: Engineering News-Record is the property of McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
From ENR: Engineering News-Record; 2/28/2005, Vol. 254 Issue 8, p5-5, 2/3pToward Better Design
Letters to the editor
From my perspective as a demolition contractor who worked at the World Trade Center and at catastrophic fire and earthquake sites worldwide, dealing with failed yet standing structural systems, I also have to lean toward a conservative approach. No matter what we do from a design-construction standpoint, a terrorist will find a way around what we do.
This is one case where I agree with U.S. policy — taking the war to the terrorists before they bring it to us. Better we spend money in that regard than on over-design and over-construction that will never, ever, be enough.
Mark Loizeaux
President, Controlled Demolition Inc.
Phoenix, Md.
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By Leslie Erdosy, P.E.; Lawrence Fischer, P.E. and Mark Loizeaux
Copyright 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Copyright of ENR: Engineering News-Record is the property of McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.
"If you're looking for something that isn't there, you're wasting your time and the taxpayers' money."
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses
-Michael Neuman, U.S. Government bureaucrat, on why NIST didn't address explosives in its report on the WTC collapses