Originally Posted by fastom

That aside, who saus the steel was saved and inspected? That Corley fella sounds like just a government PR man, head of the OKC building team too, eh?

Originally Posted by http://www.house.gov/science/hearings/full02/mar06/corley.htm

W. Gene Corley

Senior Vice President

gcorley @ c-t-l.com


Educational Background •

University of Illinois

B.S. Civil Engineering, 1958

M.S. Structural Engineering, 1960

Ph.D. Structural Engineering, 1961


Registration •

Licensed Structural Engineer - Illinois

Licensed Professional Engineer - Illinois

Registered Civil Engineer - California, Hawaii

Registered Professional Engineer - Alabama,
Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington

Chartered Engineer, FI Struct E, UK


CTL Experience • Dr. Corley has served as CTL Vice President since 1987. In this position, he serves as CTL’s managing agent for professional and structural engineering and leads structural evaluation projects related to industrial, transportation and parking facilities, bridges and buildings. He also is active in projects related to earthquake engineering. His wide range of experience includes evaluation of earthquake and blast damaged buildings and bridges; investigation of distress in prestressed concrete structures; repair of parking garages damaged by corrosion; evaluation and repair of high rise buildings, stadiums, silos and bridges; design and construction of repairs for prestressed and conventionally-reinforced, precast and cast-in-place concrete and structural steel facilities. In 1995, Dr. Corley was selected by ASCE to lead a Building Performance Assessment Team investigating the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.


Prior Experience • After receiving his B.S. degree, Dr. Corley worked for the Shelby County, Illinois highway department where he designed highways and bridges. He then returned to the University of Illinois as a research assistant and National Science Foundation teaching fellow while pursuing his graduate studies.


Upon completion of his Ph.D., he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army from 1961 until 1964. During this period, Dr. Corley was a research and development coordinator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His duties included bridge design, acceptance testing of mobile floating assault bridge equipment, design of tank launched bridges and fatigue testing of bridges fabricated from high strength steel, aircraft aluminum and titanium alloys.


In 1964, Dr. Corley began work as a development engineer with the Portland Cement Association. While serving in successively more responsible positions, he was directly involved in the development of improved design procedures for structural concrete, concrete pavement, railroads and structures subjected to fire loads. In addition, he served on an earthquake damage investigation team, carried out investigations of damaged or deteriorated structures and developed repair procedures for numerous buildings and bridges.


Publications and Professional Activities •

W. Gene Corley has authored more than 150 technical papers and books. He frequently lectures to technical and non-technical groups on the subjects of prevention of failures, effects of earthquakes and design and repair of structures. He regularly presents training courses on reinforced concrete design and teaches the seismic design portion of a refresher course to candidates for the Illinois Structural Engineering License examination.


Dr. Corley chaired ACI Committee 318 for six years as the committee developed the 1995 Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete. He also serves on several other national and international committees that prepare recommendations for structural design and for design of earthquake resistant buildings and bridges. His professional activities resulted in his receiving 11 national awards including the Best Structural Publication Award from NCSEA, Outstanding Paper from the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, the Wason Award for research from ACI, the T.Y. Lin Award from ASCE and the Martin Korn Award for PCI. He also has received several regional awards, including the UIUC Civil Engineering Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumnus Award, the SEAOI Service Award, Illinois ASCE Structural Division's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Henry Crown Award, and the SEAOI John Parmer Award.


Dr. Corley serves or has served in leadership roles for numerous professional organizations, both national and international, including the following:

American Society of Civil Engineers (Fellow)

National Society of Professional Engineers (Member)

National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (Founding Member, Board of Direction, Former President)

American Concrete Institute (Fellow) Former Chairman, Committee on Standard Building Code

American Railway Engineering Association (Member)

Building Seismic Safety Council (Former Vice-Chairman and Founding Member, Board of Direction)

Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (Member and Former Chairman)

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (Member and Former President, Great Lakes Chapter)

Institution of Structural Engineers, UK (Fellow)

International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (Member)

National Academy of Engineering (Member)

National Association of Railroad Safety Consultants and Investigators (Member)

NACE International (Member)

Prestressed Concrete Institute (Member)

RILEM (Member)

Post Tensioning Institute (Member)

Transportation Research Board (Member)

Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (Member, Former President)

Governor’s Earthquake Preparedness Task Force (Illinois)

Originally Posted by fastom

If a Cessna crashed into a garden shed there would be more investigation than in the WTC farce. Reassembling the buildings should have been mandatory.

Originally Posted by fastom

Finding out exactly what went wrong so that hundreds of thousands of other existing buildings and all new construction can be deemed safe or not (and torn down?) should have been of the utmost importance. So what now? Don't go in tall buildings anymore?

Originally Posted by fastom

I can't believe there isn't more vocal concern from the affected trades. Architects, construction companies, pilots, etc. There is some, i wish i could find the old pilots forum where they discussed the hijacking method and impossible aerial manouvers several years ago.

Originally Posted by http://www.concretefireforum.org.uk/main.asp?page=0

Dr. Pal Chana of the British Cement Association demonstrated the relative likelihood of floor collapse in a steel versus concrete framed building, using the vivid example of the Madrid Windsor Tower fire which raged over 26 hours on 14-15 February 2005. This former landmark office block of 30 storeys featured a concrete core throughout, but with concrete columns up to the 21st floor and steel columns between the 22nd and 30th floors. Remarkably, despite the intensity and duration of the fire, the concrete floors and columns remained intact however, the steel supported floors above the 21st floor collapsed, leaving the concrete core in-situ and exposed.