American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center
By: William Langewiesche
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780865475823
Subjects: Zerstörung; Construction and demolition debris; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Skyscrapers; Wrecking; Incident command systems; Structural engineering; Design and construction; World Trade Center; Terrorisme; 11 September 2001; Elfter September; World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.); Baukonstruktion; Underground construction; Hochhaus
Description: At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own.
Table of contents: title: The inner world; title: Rush to recover; title: Dance of the dinosaurs.