Leslie Robertson, Who Engineered the World Trade Center, Dies at 92
He remained proud of the towers, which stood long enough for thousands to escape on 9/11, but carried with him “a troubled heart.”
Leslie E. Robertson in front of a model of the Lower Manhattan area where the World Trade Center was being built. After 9/11, he reflected: “Should I have made the project more stalwart? And in retrospect, the only answer you can come up with is, Yes.”Credit.via The Monacelli Press
By Fred A. Bernstein
Feb. 11, 2021
Leslie E. Robertson, the structural engineer of the World Trade Center, whose work came under intense scrutiny after the complex was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, died on Thursday at his home in San Mateo, Calif. He was 92.