1-th episode of 34-th season "NOVA"

What "NOVA" 1-th episode about

Detailing some of the structural reasons for the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, employing computer animation and 9/11 footage to explain a National Institute for Standards and Technology report on the subject. Included: proposals to revise American building codes, such as increasing the width of stairways. Also: WTC lead engineer Leslie Robertson leads a tour of a complex on which he is working, the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center.

Episode number: 1

Episode name: "Building On Ground Zero"

Episode release date: 6 september 2006 at 01:00

Status: aired