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California architect to deliver presentation on World Trade Center collapses
Local architects, engineers, police, firefighters and paramedics to attend events at University of Manitoba & Fort Garry Hotel

10 May 2007

Richard Gage, AIA, Architect, a Berkeley, California-based designer of fireproofed steel-framed buildings, will be in Winnipeg on Tuesday, May 29 to deliver a pair of lectures explaining the controversial 2001 collapses of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers and the 47-storey WTC 7.

Mr. Gage's first lecture will be on Tuesday 29 May 2007 at 1:00 p.m. at the University of Manitoba's University Centre, Room 210. The public is invited and the event is free, with a recommended $5 donation. Also speaking that day will be noted media critic Barrie Zwicker of Vision TV fame, author of Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11 (New Society Publishers, 2006). There will also be a screening of the documentary 9/11 Mysteries. Winnipeg Chiropractor Dr. Joe Hawkins will serve as Master of Ceremonies, presiding over a question-and-answer period following the film and the lectures.

Civil/Structural Engineer Supports Controlled Demolition Theory

Having worked on structural steel buildings as a civil engineer in the era when the Twin Towers were designed and constructed, I found some disturbing discrepancies and omissions concerning their collapse on 9/11.

I was particularly interested in the two PBS documentaries that explained the prevailing theories as determined by two government agencies, FEMA and NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology). The first (2002) PBS documentary, Why the Towers Fell, discussed how the floor truss connectors failed and caused a “progressive pancake collapse.”

The subsequent 2006 repackaged documentary Building on Ground Zero explained that the connectors held, but that the columns failed, which is also unlikely. Without mentioning the word “concrete,” the latter documentary compared the three-second collapse of the concrete Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building with that of the Twin Towers that were of structural steel. The collapse of a concrete-framed building cannot be compared with that of a structural steel-framed building.