GLFEA Extends Its Sincere Sympathy
The Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association is deeply saddened by the events of Sept. 11, and we extend our most sincere sympathy to the families, friends, and colleagues of those killed or missing as a result of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania. Our prayers are with them and the emergency crews, government officials, the many volunteers, and engineers and construction workers on the site.
Signs of support are visible all over the Great Lakes, typified by Old Glory prominently displayed on the steel framing going up for the Compuware headquarters project across Woodward Avenue from the GLFEA offices at Woodward and Michigan avenues.
News Links
Architectural Record provides links to original articles about the World Trade Center towers, including a report written in 1964 when the design was complete. www.archrecord.com/NEWS/ARTICLES/WTC_news/history.asp
An article in the Nov. 5 Crain's Detroit Business discusses design changes area architects are considering in the post-Sept. 11th America.
www.crainsdetroit.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=19305
Here are links to several articles that discuss assessing the wreckage, including steel, from the collapsed World Trade Center towers:
ENR has written about the efforts of construction crews in the massive cleanup of the WTC towers in New York in Crews Mobilize to Remove Debris But Painstaking Work Takes Toll.
http://www.enr.com/news/enrbld_092401.asp
CNN.com discusses What Will Replace the World Trade Center?
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/19/rec.wtc.rebuilding/index.html
Four 50-story towers and memorial proposed
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/21/61916.shtml
AISC task force investigates WTC attacks.
http://www.aisc.org/about.asp?ar=23&co=321
For a description of the WTC framing, see ENR's Sept. 12 story, Massive Assault Doomed Towers, by Nadine M. Post with Sherie Winston.
http://www.enr.com/news/enrbld_091201a.asp
