Author Description

Witnesses: Robert Shea, Acting Admin., Fed. Insur. and Mitigation Admin., FEMA; W. Gene Corley, Amer. Soc. of Civil Eng., Chair of Building Performance Assessment Team reviewing the WTC disaster, accomp. by Jonathan Barnett, Prof., Center for Fire Safety Studies, Worcester Polytech. Inst.; Arden Bement, Jr., Dir., NIST; and Glenn Corbett, Assist. Prof. of Fire Sci., John Jay College, N.Y. City. Appendix: Letter to Chmn. Boehlert from Mark Wallace, Dep. Gen. Counsel, FEMA; Letter for Arden Bement, Jr., from Francis Lombardi, P.E., Chief Engineer, Port Auth. of NY and NJ; Statement of the Internat. Code Council; and "World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations," FEMA, 403/May 2002.