Distribution Structure (publicly known as the MacArthur Maze) in
California, the text, audio and video stream of the PBS, Jim Lehrer News
Hour segment on this, broadcast on Thursday May 10, 2007 is now on PBS
site:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june07/overpass_05-10.html
A 4-person crew of PBS spent several days last week with our research
team at the site and on Campus while we were conducting our NSF funded
research on this structure and in my opinion, this segment, like all
other items on Lehrer News, is one of the most high integrity and
informative piece of television news. I am not saying this because of
being in the segment, I have been in many TV segments over the years,
but because of observing continuously the utmost professional journalism
I saw how much effort was put into it by so many people resulting in
just less than 9 minutes of news item.
There is a short segment in it in Farsi and for those who don't know
Farsi, (almost 99.9%!), in this segment, I am asking Caltrans Senior
Resident Construction Engineer Ramses Sargiss, "Can we( our research
team) go up now?" and he responds "Now?, yes, let us go..". With his
help and the help of others specially Bijan Sartipi, Director of
District 4 , and Peter Strykers, Senior Resident Structural Engineer we
are now able to collect perishable data as well as the fire-affected
steel from this site as part of our NSF funded project for future studies.
If you have any questions on any aspects of our project, please do not
hesitate to send me an e-mail at astaneh@ce.berkeley.edu.
Best wishes.
"Hassan"
Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor, Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Protection of
Structures Against Terrorist Attacks
Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM)
Contact info at: http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~astaneh
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