> The young man, whose name has been lost in the swirl of subsequent events
Not a man. Her name was Diane Hartley.
A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)
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Re: A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)
#22I remember buying a Visual Basic 4 (Oreilly) book in the Barnes and Noble that was in that building
That could have been a disaster. Those books has serious ballast.
Re: A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)
#23Wow, the last time I read about this, I had not seen * the 2019 update that someone re-evaluated the risks and thinks the retrofit might not have been necessary after all ( https://www.nist.gov/publications/wind-effects-tall-building... ) * the identification of the person who called LeMessurier in 1978 and whose questions made him redo the math (whose name is not listed in the New Yorker article) as Lee DeCarolis (…
So the New Yorker article is embellished - as it recounts two conversations he had with a "young man" - when it fact it was a young woman and it was one of his associates and not LeMessurier who had those conversations.
edit:Wikipedia says that Lee DeCarolis came forward in 2022 to identify himself as the person who had spoken to LeMessurier. His story is here: https://onlineethics.org/node/41606
Re: A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)
#24I was a consultant and worked for Citicorp in that tower in the mid 90s. Someone that I worked with told me this story. I don't remember anything else about the project, but I remember him explaining how they had gone in every night to weld plates across the joints.
Re: A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)
#25> The young man, whose name has been lost in the swirl of subsequent events Not a man. Her name was Diane Hartley.
From another comment, it was, Lee DeCarolis:
https://onlineethics.org/node/41606
Re: A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)
#26Wow, the last time I read about this, I had not seen * the 2019 update that someone re-evaluated the risks and thinks the retrofit might not have been necessary after all ( https://www.nist.gov/publications/wind-effects-tall-building... ) * the identification of the person who called LeMessurier in 1978 and whose questions made him redo the math (whose name is not listed in the New Yorker article) as Lee DeCarolis (…
So the New Yorker article is embellished - as it recounts two conversations he had with a "young man" - when it fact it was a young woman and it was one of his associates and not LeMessurier who had those conversations. edit:Wikipedia says that Lee DeCarolis came forward in 2022 to identify himself as the person who had spoken to LeMessurier. His story is here: https://onlineethics.org/node/41606
Link to said wikipedia story [0], which includes a lot of context and subsequent developments that are missing from the OP.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_cr...