The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. EDT on August 21, 2008, at its campus in Gaithersburg, Md., on the findings and recommendations from its building and fire safety investigation of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7). WTC 7 was a 47-story building that fell nearly seven hours after the World Trade Center towers collapsed following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Completed over a three-year period, the NIST WTC 7 investigation presents the probable collapse sequence for the building and provides recommendations for improving building and fire safety in other buildings similar to WTC 7.
