Maybe you guys could look into some ae911truth now that you have time on your hands and tell us how your buildings fell at free-fall speed on that fateful day by jet fuel -- a physical anomaly that was factored into the design of the buildings from what the architects and engineers claimed:
"architect and WTC construction manager, Frank DeMartini, engineers John Skilling and Leslie Robertson declared that the WTC twin towers were indeed designed to withstand the impact of 707-757s and the subsequent fires"
"Architects say finances are shaky; Struggling clients not paying firms" by Associated Press | March 17, 2009
JACKSON, Miss. - Shawn O'Donahue knew the architectural firm where he worked was headed for financial ruin when a key foreign developer sent its employees on an abrupt vacation.
After months of overseas travel, meetings, and excuses, it had become clear that Sienna Architecture Co.'s work in the United Arab Emirates was over. The architects were sent back to the Oregon headquarters and laid off.
The client who owed Sienna and its partners millions of dollars for their services in Dubai did what a growing number of developers are doing - they stiffed the architect. With the recession and credit crunch wreaking havoc on the construction industry, architects are often left holding the bag. The practice is becoming so common that it's threatening the future of many architectural firms.
"We were having conversations . . . about who is paying and who's not. Do we stop work? Or do we suck it up and make the client happy, but continue to push that we need to get paid?" said O'Donahue, who lost his job as an architectural designer days before the Portland, Ore.-based company closed in January.
Kermit Baker, chief economist for the American Institute of Architects, said stories like Sienna's are becoming more common....
Projects begin with an architectural design, often drawn before all of the funding to build is in place, and many developers continue running up the tab until their project is complete. Now a lot of projects aren't getting started let alone completed....
Related: The Quiet Sounds of Massachusetts Construction
Of course there are pockets of the country and niches in the building industry that are sheltered. "I would say all of our clients are pretty much paying on time. But a lot of ours are either churches or government entities and they had their financing in place," said Doug Thornton, an architect with AERC in north Mississippi.
But that's not the case for a lot of firms....
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I'm sick of the STILL, MAY BE, BUT, IF, and the rest oif the crap huck, folks.
The Boston Globe Insults the Unemployed
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