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Encyclopedia > Leslie Robertson

Leslie E. Robertson (1928-) was the chief engineer in charge of design of the now destroyed World Trade Center in New York.


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LERA | Leslie E. Robertson (712 words)
Robertson received the 1993 Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology for his structural design of the World Trade Center that withstood the 1993 terrorist bombing.
Robertson received the Gengo Matsui Prize, the AIA Institute Honor and honorary membership with the AIA, New York; and was recognized as ENR's Construction ÔMan of the Year'.
Robertson is currently working with I.M. Pei on the Museum for Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, and the Macao Science Center in Macao, China.
Leslie E. Robertson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (327 words)
Robertson's engineering career began in 1952, when he graduated from the Berkeley school of civil engineering.
Robertson and his business partner [John Skilling] were the original structural engineers for the Twin Towers.
In the early 1960s, Roberston was a leader of a young group of structural engineers who specialized in imaginative, and daring, approaches to grand-scale construction.
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