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A short documentary featuring an oral history of the structural engineers who rushed to ground zero on 9/11 and stayed for months to help safely clear the site, protect the subway systems from flooding and take what they learned forward to create new and safer buildings._  by [Karl Vick](https://time.com/author/karl-vick/)  ## Karl Vick Editor at Large Sep 11, 2024 2:56 PM UTC A short documentary featuring an oral history of the structural engineers who rushed to ground zero on 9/11 and stayed for months to help safely clear the site, protect the subway systems from flooding and take what they learned forward to create new and safer buildings.  by [Karl Vick](https://time.com/author/karl-vick/)  ## Karl Vick Editor at Large Sep 11, 2024 2:56 PM UTC Even from the distance of 23 years, the memory of the fellow-feeling that emerged from 9/11 still surges in the chest, binding at the level of the human heart strangers who would swear they have nothing in common. But even decades later, the lessons of that day are much less clear. The most obvious takeaways (improve airport security) are also the most conspicuous, while the less visible might be apparent only to experts. Which is where _Engineers at Ground Zero_ comes in. The documentary—scheduled for release in November, with a short featured here on TIME.com—picks up a few hours after the Towers fell, as the search for survivors was supplanted by the search for answers: Were the surrounding buildings safe? Were some 400 buildings below 14th Street safe? How about the ground beneath our feet? And ultimately: How had this happened? The people who could find answers gathered among the firefighters and demolition crews. Structural engineers became “second responders,” dressed in civilian clothes and versed in the laws of tension and compression—all the arcana of physical geometry that had determined whether lives would be lost or saved in the 101 minutes that elapsed between the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower and its collapse. The engineers stayed for months, leaving when the site was emptied and the answers were in hand. **_Read more:_** [_If You Want To Humble An Empire_](https://time.com/3313113/if-you-want-to-humble-an-empire/) “What did we learn from 9/11?” Vicki Arbitrio, who helped organize fellow engineers in Lower Manhattan, tells TIME. “We learned to make stairwells wider, so that firefighters can go up while others go down. We learned that maybe the walls around the stairs should be more than just gypsum board, and that maybe we should keep the sprinkler mains within those hardened walls. Things that will protect people in the future. Redundancy in the overall structural system to make sure that, you know, a building will still stand up for a little while.” The film includes a step-by-step explanation of how the Towers came down, an account offered by an engineer displaying an animation based on “physics-based modeling” of the catastrophe. The high-rises had been built to survive a plane crashing—and initially did, each structure redistributing the load around the hole each jet punched into it. What brought them down, in the end, was fire from the jet fuel, so intense it melted the steel girders in the interior. Other risks followed. One affable engineer recalls being summoned to ground zero on a Sunday. A crack had opened in the earth. In the absence of one of the Towers, a wall constructed to hold back the Hudson River has moved more than a foot. If the river followed, water would flood not only the subway tunnel under the World Trade Center, but the entire New York subway system. “It’s a very dangerous situation,” he says. And it was solved not with an army but a pump that lifted water away from one side of a wall, and a bulldozer that pushed dirt against the other. “Certainly people are going to figure out other, more powerful ways to destroy things, right?” says Arbitrio. “So as engineers, how can we build something reasonably economically and make it safer? After[ Oklahoma City](https://time.com/3822868/oklahoma-city-bombing-20-years/), we figured out some things. After the[ 1993 bombing](https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19930308,00.html), we figured out some things. After 9/11 we figured out some things. And the Pentagon, too, was investigated. The[ condo collapse](https://time.com/6076879/surfside-collapse-miami-tragedy/) in in South Florida. We’re always looking to see: _What can we do better?_” The engineers were interviewed, one at a time, in a high rise that has been built but not built out—a whole floor behind the speaker, vacant but for pillars. The idea of the film (organized and financed by the[ Structural Engineers Association of New York,](https://www.seaony.org/) but edited independently by the Vacationland production house) was to leave a lasting record of an event that will be known first-hand by fewer people over time. The aging men and women speak, movingly, of what moved them: the outpouring from New Yorkers and the world beyond, the value both of camaraderie and of reaching conclusions together. It seems fitting that, as they speak, the only thing visible behind them are supports. “We are often taken for granted, and that's okay,” says Arbitrio. “If all goes well, you don't notice it. But when something goes wrong, it's good to learn from it. And that's not just structural engineering, right? That's everything.” ## Transcript 911 was a Tuesday morning. My wife has a name for it. She calls September 11 Sky because it was so blue that day. There was a major incident in Lower Man hit. Twin Engine, not quite an airliner. It could in fact be a commuter plane. People rushed by my desk saying a plane hit the World Trade Center. There's no. Hold on just a moment. We got an explosion inside out. I come out of the subway, and a whole crowd of people are looking south with their heads raised to the sky. A woman standing next to me says, Do you think it's coming down? I go. No. The loads have already redistributed. It's achieved equilibrium, which to me, is a lifelong lesson not to draw conclusions instantaneously. I understood that engineers had a role when something like this occurs. We all worked together. We just marched all the way down to to the site. When the towers collapsed, the ground shaking was felt and measured at the Lamont Doherty observatory up along the Palisades as like a three point something on the Richter scale, which is how we measure earthquakes, right? The only thing that we could think of that was similar we how the structural engineers in California had developed a process for evaluating buildings after an earthquake. You know, the city was shut down from 14th Street down. So who decides when is it safe for people to go back to their homes? So in order to assess the 400 buildings immediately surrounding the trade center site, we used aerial photographs. We sent people to the roofs of buildings, know materials and we know physics, and we know gravity. Like if something looks like it's going to fall, we're pretty good candidates to make that assessment. So the difference between doing a rapid assessment of a building that's collapsed already and doing a rapid assessment of a building that's standing and just is old and in need of maintenance. They're two very different things. We do try to send everyone to construction sites as much as we can, just so they can see how things get put together, because as you see things getting put together, it's easier to understand how things can fall apart. So many buildings that were damaged, and some of them, you know, very severely. The winter garden, which is a glass structure that is between the Amex building and World Financial Center one and two. There was actually a piece of the facade that was stuck in the corner of the American Express building that was kind of dangling. They wind up taking some, you know, cing aircraft, cling, what have you, and tying it around the piece and anchoring it to one of the interior columns. Were Structural engineers and the areas that were rebuilt specifically after 1993 bombing included the chiller plants. We had the knowledge of the ability to get to those areas. Same thing with the refrigerant from the tanks, right? If those are heated, or they catch fire, they create mustard gas, that could kill people that are, you know, working and, you know, spending all that time there. We initially had eight hour shifts. Alright. But that wasn't working because there was so much going on. So we had to change that to 2212 hour shifts. I was surveying buildings. At some point, I was in the subway system looking at stuff, and we were all over the place. There was tremendous grief. There were people that would stand along the West Highway to thank the people that were going down. And that was very emotional because we were going down there to help. And these people that were standing there also wanted to help. But the only way that they could help is to try to thank us and support us. There were people who would stop their lives and restaurants and food and water for everyone involved in the rescue effort. So I will never forget New Yorkers and the nation. The way the nation came to support New York and the other areas attacked at that time. That was pretty powerful. Someone came up to me and said that they're digging there with a back co, trying to clear out debris, but the subway tunnels immediately below that. They puncture that tunnel. Groundwater will rush in, and it will fill the entire New York City subway system. Slurry wall is dug in all the way around the site. And then as the basement floors are built, they put pressure against the slurry wall. They hold back the Hudson River, right? One morning, it was a Sunday. I get a call from someone from DDC, and they said, you better get down here. So we run down there, and we see this crack in the ground. So it was a very dangerous situation. And I remember walking down behind the slurry wall, which George Tomaro with our hard hats on, and I said to him, What are we doing here? I was always aware that the Hudson was a threat. The Hudson was a threat when we did the original wall. We began to recognize that there was a valley north of the Liberty Street slurry wall, where the debris was not the full depth of the excavation, which meant that the slurry walls did not have lateral support. And one morning we detected there was something like 14 " of movement. We began pumping water outside to diminish the load on the wall, and we began putting soil on the inside to support the wall, so it wouldn't collapse. That was the most critical part. The water elevation was only about ten or so feet below street level. That if the Hudson River flooded into the site, just due to the elevation differences between the World Trade Center site, New Jersey, was that you would have flooded the World Trade Center site, which in turn would have flooded the path tubes, which in turn would have then flooded all the way up to 14th Street and flooded the entire New York City subway system. The pieces of the tower were being shipped over to the New Jersey salvage yards where the pieces were being cut up and thrown on boats to go be recycled. My first day on the site was September 13, and I was the last engineer to leave on July 15, two and two. We had a fence around the site, locked it up and handed the keys back to the city and to the port authority, and, you know, it's like, Okay, our job is done. Was at the World Trade Center site from that first week in September through the last column being taken out of out of the site. So it was about nine months. A huge lesson learned for me and something that I will never forget is that despite the number of super smart people in the design and construction community that I had access to that were volunteering their time, the group, where the sum of all their opinions is far better than the opinion of a few people. The original Trade Center was designed to resist an airplane impact, but airplanes have gotten so much bigger. The plane hit, but because of the redundancy in the system, it was able to redistribute the loads around the hole. And so the gravity wasn't the problem. The problem was the fire. After 9/11, within a few weeks, started what ultimately proved out to be the most extensive investigation of any towers collapses or structural collapses ever. This is actually the physics based modeling of that impact. Looking from the top, You can see the penetration of the airplane, the severance of the columns in the front facade, but also in the middle of the core of the building. It's thin aluminum sheets that get shredded. But they're still flying at about 500 miles an hour. So essentially, you have a power wash of metal impacting the structure that's keeping the building up. The steel columns that were not severed are getting their fireproofing stripped by that power wash of materials, that is the primary cause for ultimately the collapses. The structure of the tower had, what is known as a three dimensional outrigger truss at the at the top of the building. It was there. To carry the TV antennas. The roof truss on that day on 911 played a role for which it wasn't designed. As you can see from this graphic, it is connecting the columns in the core to some of the columns on the perimeter of the building. That steel grillge, now will be able to act as a stabilizing and load distribution mechanism. Since this building has excess strength. It remains standing, thanks to the role of the roof truss. That roof truss saved lives on that day. It allowed the full evacuation of occupants below the impact zone. After 102 minutes, which is the time the North Tower lasted, it's no longer able to carry as much load. As steel gets heated, it softens. Recreated through physics based computer modeling, the collapse of WTC one, and you can see, it's largely symmetric. But the first thing you saw is the roof truss come down from the top. That is because the core columns had been attacked by fire at the impact zone. And they are less resilient than the perimeter tube. They start sinking in first. But after a while, even the perimeter tube is being dragged down, and you get what we call a pancaking event. After that, gravity is simply the strongest force you can ever imagine. 3,000 people were lost. The emotional toll of participating in the entire post 911 era was taxing on people. People who would come back from their rotation on the site clearly with masks full of Having seen things that are difficult to unsee. I don't know that I really understood the health implications until much later. A lot of us got sick also. And years later, obviously, a lot of firefighters, they were there, you know, every day. But for those of us that were there four, five, ten times exposed to the dust, we started getting sick. You know, I mean, things have changed since the 911 attack, you know, there's a much more organized way that we're able to evaluate buildings that do collapse. So many people thought downtown was dead. You would never revive. But it was the developers, the real estate people, the architects, also. I don't know, something about human nature that when something breaks, they want to fix it. Okay? That you don't just accept this as a loss. The initial reaction was, no one's ever gonna go in a tall building again. Okay? That was the initial reaction, which turned out not to be correct, right? We have more tall buildings now than we ever had. I think it's important to keep the memory of all these events alive because there's so much to learn from them. I think the exact reason to tell this story now is because there were generations of people who have no idea that this occurred. They know about the firefighters, they know about the emergency responders. They know that the Red Cross was here, but that there was a group of structural engineers who stood up and put their health on the line in many cases and contributed to this collective effort to help New York City when the city needed us. The way everybody came together was an amazing thing, and I don't think it is a rarity. I think that this is human nature. We want to take care of each other. 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