Structural Systems Division News Today

Jason Averill, Chief, Materials and Structural Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) On Nov. 1, 2002, in a small conference room on the Gaithersburg, Maryland…

Lynne Sladky / AP Originally published on June 28, 2021 5:06 pm Researchers from a government agency that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11 are already on-site at Surfside, Fla. A team from NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is in the preliminary stages of an investigation into what caused the apparent building failure early Thursday at the Champlain Towers South condo building north of Miami Beach. The agency is part of the U.S. Departmen...