Loading ...9/11 Has Spurred Only Modest Changes in New York City and National Building Codes
September 9th, 2006
At the Bank of America tower in Midtown, stairwells exceed city code standards. They are reinforced concrete and are wider than required.
The destruction of the World Trade Center produced calls for a wholesale re-evaluation of the way tall buildings are designed and built, but five years later, the changes to New York City’s building code, and others across the nation, have been few and modest. (more…)
It couldn’t be due to the fact that a fire cannot cause a skyscraper to collapse, could it?
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