Skyscraper Safety

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Bob Hennelly
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

David Childs is one of the architects whose design for the Freedom Tower was recently unveiled. It is pledged to be the safest high rise in the world . Yet as Bob Hennelly reports, that may be quite an undertaking given that the standards for skyscraper safety in the United States are far from the highest.

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