William LeMessurier

William LeMessurier

William James LeMessurier (pronEng|ləˈmɛʒɚ) (1926 - June 14, 2007 Casco, Maine) was a prominent American structural engineer.

Born in Pontiac, Michigan, LeMessurier graduated with an AB from Harvard, went to Harvard Graduate School of Design and then earned a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. [ [http://web.mit.edu/giving/spectrum/winter99/stuff.html MIT Spectrum ] ] He is the founder and chairman of LeMessurier Consultants. [ [http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/faculty/details.cgi?faculty_id=608 Harvard Design School Faculty ] ] . He was awarded the AIA Allied Professions Medal in 1968, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978, elected an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects in 1988, and elected an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1989. [ [http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/faculty/details.cgi?faculty_id=608 Harvard Design School Faculty ] ]

While responsible for the structural engineering on a large number of prominent buildings, including Boston City Hall, LeMessurier is perhaps best known for a structural controversy. As the result of the questions of a student, LeMessurier re-assessed his calculations on the Citicorp headquarters tower in New York City in 1977, after the building had already been finished, and found that the building was more vulnerable than originally thought (in part due to cost-saving changes made to the original plan). This triggered a hurried, clandestine retrofit described in a celebrated article in "The New Yorker", "The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis," [Joe Morgenstern (1995), [http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/ce131/citicorp1.htm "The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis"] , "The New Yorker", May 29, 1995. Pages 45–53.] which is now used as an ethical case-study.

References

External links

* [http://www.lemessurier.com/ LeMessurier's website]
* [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/07/22/william_j_lemessurier_designed_city_hall/ Boston Globe William LeMessurier Obituary]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2104742/ Brief Slate article on the Citicorp building]
* [http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=500#more-500/ Article about the potential problem caused by poor decisions made by contractors working on the Citicorp building.]
* [http://web.mit.edu/giving/spectrum/winter99/stuff.html MIT article]
* [http://onlineethics.org/moral/lemessurier/ OnlineEthics.org article]
* [http://www.crosscurrents.org/kremer2002.htm (Re)examining the Citicorp Case: Ethical Paragon or Chimera]


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