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whitefordmd

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1. using the maximum amounts allowed in the building codes
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 08:08 AM
Sep 2016

Except that criteria is pretty useless and would for practical reasons tell you the building should not have failed if it was built to code

For these interested try here

Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1A)

https://www.nist.gov/node/599811

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