There are 141,000 members of the American Society of Civil Engineers...

Reply to Cameron Fox (reply to button isn't working for me again)

Happy New Year as well.

Here's what Dr. Quintiere had to say about the NIST report after it was published:

James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation into the collapses of the World
Trade Center Towers on 9/11.

Dr. Quintiere made his plea during his presentation, “Questions
on the WTC Investigations” at the 2007 World Fire Safety
Conference. “I wish that there would be a peer review of this,” he
said, referring to the NIST investigation. “I think all the records
that NIST has assembled should be archived. I would really like
to see someone else take a look at what they’ve done; both
structurally and from a fire point of view.”

“I think the official conclusion that NIST arrived at is
questionable,” explained Dr. Quintiere. “Let's look at real
alternatives that might have been the cause of the collapse of the
World Trade Towers

www.opednews.com...

It really doesn't sound to me like he agrees with his former employers.

Here's more.

3. Spoliation of a fire scene is a basis for destroying a legal case in an investigation. Most of the steel was discarded, although the key elements of the core steel were demographically labeled. A careful reading of the NIST report shows that they have no evidence that the temperatures they predict as necessary for failure are corroborated by findings of the little steel debris they have. Why hasn't NIST declared that this spoliation of the steel was a gross error?

Although Dr. Quintiere doesn't agree with the CD theories, the fact that he disagrees with NIST shows us that engineers are NOT in agreement as of yet.

So, claiming that 141,000 members of the ASCE are all in agreement is false.

[edit on 12/31/2008 by Griff]