BlogTalkRadio Interview
November 2, 2007
Richard Gage makes an intelligent and passionate case for a new independent
investigation into the so called collapses of all three World Trade buildings.
Richard has been a licensed architect for over 20 years and heads ae911truth.org.
9/11 Blueprint: The Architecture of Destruction
September 5, 2007
Interview with Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA, about the organization he has
formed, "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth". Outreach
to architects and engineers; presentations to the public and to professionals;
the physical evidence of controlled demolition of the World Trade Center
twin towers and building seven.
• Journal of Engineering Mechanics: Discussion of "Progressive Collapse of the World Trade Center: A Simple Analysis" by K.A. Seffen
Dr. Crockett Grabbe
Shortly after the core columns under the East Penthouse
of WTC 7 collapsed, the rest ofthe building
collapsed mostlyinto its footprint in about 7
seconds — near free-fall speed.
Taken from the FEMA report, Fig. 5-26, this
photographic evidence begs to question why WTC 7
imploded when WTC 6 and WTC 5 were closer to the
Twin Towers and more
heavily damaged by falling debris, yet, their structures
remain.
The official
FEMA report states: "The collapse of WTC 7 had
a small debris field as the facade was pulled downward,
suggesting an internal failure and implosion...
Demolishing
the building so that it collapses straight down into
its own footprint requires such skill that only a
handful of demolition companies in the world will
attempt it."
Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in
Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California, says:
"Photos of the steel, evidence about how the buildings collapsed,
the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of thermite in the
debris as well as several other red flags, are quite troubling
indications of well planned and controlled demolition"
Ronald H. Brookman, structural engineer, with a masters degree
in Engineering from UC Davis, of Novato California, writes:
"Why would all 110 stories drop straight down to the ground
in about 10 seconds, pulverizing the contents into dust and ash
- twice. Why would all 47 stories of WTC 7 fall straight down
to the ground in about seven seconds the same day? It was not
struck by any aircraft or engulfed in any fire. An independent
investigation is justified for all three collapses including the
surviving steel samples and the composition of the dust."
Graham John Inman, structural engineer, of London, England, points
out: "WTC 7 Building could not have collapsed as a result
of internal fire and external debris. NO plane hit this building.
This is the only case of a steel frame building collapsing through
fire in the world. The fire on this building was small & localized
therefore what is the cause?"
Paul W. Mason, structural engineer, of Melbourne, Australia,
argues:
"In my view, the chances of the three buildings collapsing
symmetrically into their own footprint, at freefall speed, by
any other means than by controlled demolition, are so remote that
there is no other plausible explanation!"
"In my opinion WTC7 was with the utmost probability brought
down by controlled demolition done by experts" -Hugo Bachmann,
Professor emeritus for structural analysis and construction at
ETH and former Chairman of the Department of Structural Dynamics
and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
(source)
These office
fires were not enough to heat a column weighing 15,000 pounds
per floor to 1000° F.
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ON IMAGE BELOW
to zoom in at right.
There
were fires on floors 8, 11, 12 and 13 in the east end of
WTC 7, where the collapse began.
East:
about 2:30pm
[floors 11 and 12 - Arrows point to north east generator room]
North:
about 3:00pm
[floors 7 and 12]
North: 4:48pm
[8 and 13 - fire on floor 12 had burned out in east
end]
The NIST hypothesis offers NO explanation for the collapse of half
the core columns.
The sudden and complete destruction of World Trade
Center 7 was not included in the 911 Commission Report.
"...it's reminiscent of those
pictures we've all seen too much on television where a building was deliberately
destroyed by well-placed dynamite to knock it down." ~ Dan Rather, CBS
News
In
Part 1:
Jerwenko: ....This is a controlled demolition.
Interviewer: You sure?
Jerwenko: Absolutely, it's been imploded. This was a hired job. A team
of experts did this.
In
Part 2: Interviewer: .....could it not be by fire?
Jerwenko: No
In
Part 3: When told of the debris damage and fires, Jerwenko continued to talk
about HOW it was done. There is never any doubt in his mind that WTC 7
was controlled demolition.