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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: Suspect: AMEC, ... did renovations to Pentagon, WTC b.7 Source: pilotsfor911truth.org and Various URL Source: http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=631 Published: Oct 21, 2006 Author: Various Post Date: 2012-11-12 05:16:02 by GreyLmist Keywords: 9/11, Pentagon, WTC, AMEC, et al. Views: 1043 Comments: 33 On its own Web site, AMEC, a London-based military contractor, announces it was contracted to fortify the West wing of the Pentagon and to clean up the wreckage at both the Pentagon and Silverstein's WTC. http://www.amec.com/earthandenvironmental/...asp?pageid=1107 Emergency Response/Cleanup – World Trade Center At the World Trade Center, AMEC’s around-the-clock activities began hours after the attacks and included strategic and logistical planning, debris-removal management, health and safety planning, environmental monitoring and testing, data management and daily interaction with federal, state and local emergency and regulatory agencies. And from Portland Independent Media: portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341768.shtml Foreign owned British AMEC was put in charge of the areas hit on 9-11 long before 9-11. Then, they cleaned up after it. British AMEC did pre-9-11 WTC7 "renovations" and pre-9-11 Pentagon wedge "renovations and strengthening". Both of these British AMEC areas then suffer controlled demolition or were damaged intentionally on 9-11. Then Brititsh AMEC cleans it up. Then they leave the country in 2004. "AMEC Construction Management, a subsidiary of the British engineering firm AMEC, renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon before 9-11 and cleaned it up afterward. AMEC had also renovated Silverstein's WTC 7, which collapsed mysteriously on 9-11, and then headed the cleanup of the WTC site afterward. The AMEC construction firm is currently in the process of closing all its offices in the United States. Poster Comment: This topic is to archive references on AMEC and others of relevance. Much more info in a series of postings next. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 6. #1. To: All (#0) from Portland Independent Media: portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341768.shtml [49] British AMEC's contract "date to completion" for attack reinforcement for Pentagon wedge, the one that was hit? AMEC's contract was to have the Pentagon reinforcement complete by.....September 2001--the month it was hit. ------------ Pentagon Official Surveillance Video www.911whodidit.com/index.php/pentagon/pentagon-official- surveillance-video ("On Sept. 11, Pentagon construction crews were doing final, touch- up work on the first wedge after more than three years of renovation. Some Defense employees already were moving into new office spaces. "We were down to checking the marble [floor] tile for cracks," says David Kersey, project manager for British construction firm AMEC Inc., which held a $280 million contract for the Wedge 1 renovation. Fewer than 100 AMEC workers and subcontractors were onsite, while a new construction team, led by Hensel-Phelps Construction Co. of Greeley, Colo., was setting up shop to begin the next round of renovations." Click for [newsmine.org] Reference.) Lee Evey, program manager for the Pentagon renovation project, says that if the building had not been under repair, there could have been 10,000 Defense employees in Wedges 1 and 2. GreyLmist  posted on  2012-11-12   7:23:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #3. To: All (#1) (Edited) David Kersey, project manager for British construction firm AMEC Inc., which held a $280 million contract for the Wedge 1 renovation David Kersey, Vice President, AMEC Construction Management Inc. -- ZoomInfo.com Kersey was at the Pentagon ... on 9/11 www.winchest er star.com, 10 Sept 2011 [cached] Kersey was at the Pentagon during the attack, but was outside the building when the airplane struck. David Kersey is in a construction trailer on the Pentagon parking lot when his boss calls. He's about to head to Wedge One, one of five sections of the Pentagon under renovation, but he takes the phone call instead. Kersey is the vice president of AMEC - a construction company that has just finished the first major renovation project on the Pentagon. At 2 p.m., Kersey decides to go back. He is one of a few people who can show rescue personnel how to get into the building, turn off the electricity and turn on the water. Traffic is not permitted near the building, so he walks the remaining 1 miles. He ends up working throughout the night. On Sept. 15, Kersey and his crew sign a contract to gut and replace 1.2 million square feet of building space in the damaged area. ------------ American Institute of Architects eClassroom - View Course Details eclassroom.aia.org, 11 Sept 2001 [cached] David Kersey Vice President AMEC Construction Management Inc. David Kersey is a Vice President with AMEC Construction Management Inc. and works in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. His career has included working for general contractors, owners, and developers as well as owning his own light commercial and residential construction company. Kersey's career has included direct involvement with a number of high profile projects including The Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, the Time Life Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, and various buildings at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He has also worked on numerous professional sports projects including facilities for the Washington Wizards, Capitals, and Mystics, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Miami Heat. Kersey served as the Project Executive for AMEC's team that renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon and completed that effort on September 3, 2001 - only 8 days prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks. Having been only 800 feet away from the point of impact of the hijacked plane, Kersey remained on site throughout the night of 9/11 witnessing the events first hand and assisting with any construction related issues. Serving as Project Executive once again, Kersey led AMEC's team that was responsible for rebuilding the Pentagon and for achieving the goal of moving tenants back into the damaged portion of the Pentagon by the one-year observation of the attack. Kersey is a member of the AGC, DBIA, ABC and DCBIA and a graduate (B.S., Industrial Engineering) of Virginia Tech. [sic] AMEC's capabilities at the Pentagon were displayed before and proven during the attack. They had just completed a project to strengthen and renovate one section of the Pentagon, called Wedge 1, prior to Sept. 11. In the renovation, steel reinforcing beams were bolted together, floor to floor, to form a continuous unit, walls were lined with a strong fibrous material to trap fragmentation from explosions and blast-resistant glass nearly two inches thick was used in the windows. ------------ My Note: American taxpayers should get a refund from AMEC on tbe hundreds of millions of dollars for that 3-year wedge/wall renovation/reinforcement "project", which was practically useless in stopping whatever blasted through it and multiple rings too. Compare the multi-impacts there to the WTC Towers that we're told were so flimsy that planes went through those outer steeled-walls like melting through butter, yet somehow still acted like baseball gloves to short-stop those alleged jets in a New York minute, so to speak. Edited for grammar and punctuation. GreyLmist  posted on  2012-11-12   8:46:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #4. To: All (#3) Excerpt from: The Pentagon Renovations Completed on 9/11/2001 http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911_pentagon_renovations.html A year’s work finally finished. Dan Fraunfelter counted himself lucky when he landed a job working on the first phase of the massive Pentagon renovation project. When the military complex was originally built, it was constructed in five, chevron-shaped wedges. Each chevron, more than 1 million square feet in size, accommodating roughly 5,000 workers, was designed as a stand-alone building with its own separate utility system. The unique design was meant to make the entire complex stronger (if one section of the building was suddenly disabled, the others could function regularly without disruption.) But it also lent itself particularly well to renovation. Even though the Pentagon is massive—larger than three Empire State Buildings, the face on each of the five sides slightly longer than three football fields— the wedge construction allowed engineers to remake the building one, easy-to-close-off section at a time. Contractors could simply move workers, seal off a wedge, and install new features like reinforced steel columns and two-inch-thick blast- resistant windows. Fraunfelter, a 24-year-old who studies architecture part time at Northern Virginia Community College, had long been fascinated by the Pentagon. When his firm, Amec Construction, won the general contract for Wedge 1, he plunged into the job eagerly, anxious to explore every square inch of the physical structure. On Sept. 11, the contract officially complete, Fraunfelter was finishing up a few last punch-list items. He arrived on-site at 7 a.m. to prepare for an 8 a.m. tenant meeting. It was a routine job-completion task, a meeting where tenants handed over a list of final fix-it items: touch-up painting, leaking pipes, etc. [MSNBC] American Airlines Flight 77 struck the portion of the building that had already been renovated. It was the only area of the Pentagon with a sprinkler system, and it had been reconstructed with a web of steel columns and bars to withstand bomb blasts. The steel reinforcement, bolted together to form a continuous structure through all of the Pentagon's five floors, kept that section of the building from collapsing for 30 minutes--enough time for hundreds of people to crawl out to safety. The area struck by the plane also had blast-resistant windows--2 inches thick and 2,500 pounds each--that stayed intact during the crash and fire. It had fire doors that opened automatically and newly built exits that allowed people to get out. "This was a terrible tragedy, but I'm here to tell you that if we had not undertaken these efforts in the building, this could have been much, much worse," [Lee Evey, program manager for the Pentagon renovation project] said. "The fact that they happened to hit an area that we had built so sturdily was a wonderful gift." The rest of the Pentagon would not have fared as well. The fire that swept through the building caused the greatest damage in an unrenovated section with no sprinkler system, heavy windows or steel reinforcements. But many of the offices there were empty in anticipation of the renovation. While perhaps 4,500 people normally would have been working in the hardest-hit areas, because of the renovation work only about 800 were there Tuesday, officials said. [LATimes] Most of Marine Aviation had just the weekend before been moved to the "Butler building," an extension of the Pentagon and about 200 yards from where the impact occurred, not nearly as close as their previous offices. [mca- marines.org] [map] ------------ My Note: The rest is from a CNN interview segment that seems to conflict with the LA Times above, which said Flt. 77 struck the portion of the building that had already been renovated. GreyLmist  posted on  2012-11-12   15:55:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #5. To: GreyLmist (#4) To this day, it makes my hair hurt to read that any commercial airliner hit the pentagon. Lod  posted on  2012-11-12   16:12:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #6. To: Lod (#5) To this day, it makes my hair hurt to read that any commercial airliner hit the pentagon. Remedial snippet from Metahistory: Lexicon I: The Greek/Coptic term plane (PLAH-nay) means "error, leading astray — "mind-bending" in the sense [of] "deception," GreyLmist  posted on  2012-11-13   4:31:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 6.         There are no replies to Comment # 6. End Trace Mode for Comment # 6. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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