- Author
- Galioto, C.
- Title
- Innovation in Building Safety Design: Seven World Trade Center as a Case Study.
- Coporate
- Skidmore, Owings, Merrill LLP, New York, NY
- Book or Conf
- Designing Structures for Fire. Proceedings. Co-Sponsored by: Society of Fire Protection Engieners and Structural Engineering Institute. September 30-October 1, 2003, DEStech Publications, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 286-297 p., 2003
- Keywords
- structures | building design | World Trade Center | high rise buildings | egress | occupants | case histories | stariwells | construction | tenability | rescue | transportation
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; stair separation; stair encosure construction and layout; redundancy within egress systems; tenability of egress system; role of structural systems in maintaining a tenable environment; future developments: rescue by vertical transportation systems