The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey provided me with unfettered access to their site, employees, suppliers, and archives. It was a privilege to be the only author given such access. These eyewitness accounts represent critical documentation—made while the interviewees were working actively on the project and not recollected in hindsight—that will augment the work of future scholars. The bulk of the text is culled from these accounts, construction documents, and other agency reports.
INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED (2003–2007; 2013–2015)
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey: Patrick J. Foye, Executive Director; Scott H. Rechler, Vice Chairman, Board of Commissioners; Steven Plate, Director, World Trade Center Construction; Kenneth J. Ringler Jr., Executive Director (2004–2007); Christopher O. Ward, Executive Director (2008–2011); Carla Bonacci, Assistant Director, World Trade Center Site and Infrastructure Project Development, World Trade Center Construction; Michael Kraft, Senior Program Manager, World Trade Center Construction; Joseph P. Dunne, Chief Security Officer; Doug Farber, Chief of Security, World Trade Center; Mark Pagliettini, Assistant Director, World Trade Center Transportation Hub; and Erica Dumas and Rudy King, Media Relations
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM): David M. Childs, Consulting Design Partner; T. J. Gottesdiener, Managing Partner; Kenneth A. Lewis, Managing Director; Nicole Dosso, Technical Director; Jeffrey Holmes, Associate Design Partner (2003–2008); Carl Galioto, Technical Partner (2004–2009); and Elizabeth Harrison Kubany, firm spokesperson
Structural Engineering: Ahmad Rahimian, Chief Executive, and Yoram Eilon, Senior Vice President, WSP USA; Jon Galsworthy, Principal and Wind Engineering Director, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, Inc.; and Michael Stein, Managing Director, Schlaich Bergermann.
Tishman/AECOM: Daniel Tishman, Chairman and CEO; and Michael Pinelli, General Superintendent
Legends: David W. Checketts, Chairman and Chief Executive; John Urban, Legends Attractions; and Phil Hettema, The Hettema Group, Design, One World Experience
Silverstein Properties: Larry A. Silverstein, Chairman; and Dara McQuillan, Chief Marketing Officer
The Durst Organization: Douglas Durst, Chairman; Jonathan Durst, President; Thomas J. Duffe, Vice President and Director of Construction; Tony Tarazi, Senior Project Manager; Jordan Barowitz, Director of External Affairs; and Gary M. Rosenberg Esq., Rosenberg & Estis
Barbizon Electric Company: John Gebbie, Business Development Manager; and Benjamin Tevelow, Systems Technician
Benson Industries: Ryan Kernan, Project Manager; and Robyn Ryan, Project Coordinator
DCM Erectors: Kevin Murphy, Kevin Scally, Tom Hickey, and Mike O’Reilly
Eastern Concrete: Steve Jackson, Area Manager
Claude R. Engle, Lighting Consultant: Claude R. Engle III
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Joe Daniels, President and Chief Executive Officer; Alice Greenwald, Director; Lynn Rasic, Executive Vice President, External Affairs & Strategy; Michael Arad, 9/11 Memorial Designer; Peter Walker, 9/11 Memorial Designer; Steven M. Davis, Davis Brody Bond, Architect of the 9/11 Memorial Museum; Mark Wagner, Associate Partner, Davis Brody Bond; Craig Dykers, Snøhetta, Architect of 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion; Tom Hennes, Thinc Design, Lead Installation Designer, 9/11 Memorial Museum; and Ann Frank Farrington, Exhibition Consultant, 9/11 Memorial Museum
St. Nicholas National Shrine: Father Alexander Karloutsos, Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America; and Mark Arey, The Hellenic Initiative
AECOM: Joseph E. Brown; and Andrew Lavallee
Maki & Associates: Gary Kamemoto, Director; and Osamu Sassa, Consulting Project Architect
Additional interviews: Santiago Calatrava, Architect, Transportation Hub and St. Nicholas National Shrine; James Carpenter, James Carpenter Design Associates, 7 World Trade Center; DBOX, Digital Visualizations; Michael Gericke, Pentagram; Diana Horowitz, Artist, 4 and 7 World Trade Center; Daniel Libeskind, World Trade Center Master Plan; Barbara Littenberg, Peterson/Littenberg; Carol Willis, Director, The Skyscraper Museum
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