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Online Ethics Center: William LeMessurier & the Citicorp SkyscraperTexto en EspañolWilliam LeMessurier:The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis; A Lesson inProfessional BehaviorWilliam LeMessurier, one of the nation'smost distinguished structural engineers,served as design and constructionconsultant on the innovative Citicorpheadquarters tower, which was completedin 1977 in New York. The next year, after acollege student studying the tower designhad called him to point out a possibledeficiency, LeMessurier discovered that thebuilding was indeed structurally deficient.LeMessurier faced a complex and difficultproblem of professional responsibility inwhich he had to alert a broad group ofpeople to the structural deficiency andenlist their cooperation in repairing thedeficiency before a hurricane brought thebuilding down.His story was recounted in detail in "The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis," which appeared in the May 29, 1995issue of The New Yorker, and on November 17, 1995, LeMessurier himself came to MIT, from which hereceived his doctorate, to speak to prospective engineers about the decisions he had to make and theactions he took.http://onlineethics.org/moral/lemessurier/index.html (1 of 2) [10/13/2004 1:44:32 PM]
Online Ethics Center: William LeMessurier & the Citicorp SkyscraperWilliam LeMessurier, one of the nation's mostdistinguished structural engineers, discusses ethicaldilemmas he faced with structural deficiencies in thedesign of the Citicorp headquarters.See video clip: QuickTime 1.5 Mb MPEG 1.5 Mb Clickhere for download instructionsThe Story of the Citicorp Tower●●●●●●●●Part 1: History of SkyscrapersPart 2: LeMessurier's Innovative Citicorp DesignPart 3: The Discovery of the Change from Welds to BoltsPart 4: Exploring the Effects of Quartering WindsPart 5: Further Evidence of DangerPart 6: Mobilizing SupportPart 7: Accomplishing the Repair Without Causing PanicPart 8: The Final Touch: LeMessurier's Good NameThe Online Ethics Center offers a high-quality videotape of a lecture by William LeMessurier on thistopic, a lecture that discusses many of the technical details and therefore is particularly useful for civiland mechanical engineering students. Inquiries can be sent to theAll images displayed herein, unless otherwise noted, courtesy William LeMessurier.This page and supporting pages were created by Eric Plosky for Caroline Whitbeck atthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology.http://onlineethics.org/moral/lemessurier/index.html (2 of 2) [10/13/2004 1:44:32 PM]
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