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"We are very anxious to get these documents," said Mat Heyman, the acting chief of staff at NIST, which is a division of the United States Department of Commerce and has a long history of investigating building catastrophes.

A federal agency with vast experience in investigating building collapses and other major catastrophes is moving to take over, and significantly expand, the inquiry into the fall of the World Trade Center's twin towers on Sept. 11.

This study introduces an interdisciplinary framework for investigating building-user interaction in office spaces.

It even investigated building a temporary structure, but was halted at every turn.

Following the hearings, Mr. Boehlert pushed through legislation, signed last year by President Bush, that gave Dr. Bement's agency the authority to investigate building collapses.

In the wake of the World Trade Center collapse, the House today approved a measure that would give the federal government new authority to investigate building disasters and determine how other buildings might be better protected.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which has investigated building failures worldwide as a result of earthquakes, structural flaws and other factors, has recently begun discussions with other federal and city agencies to formally take control of the inquiry.

Representatives Weiner and Boehlert have drafted a bill that would create a construction safety board, which would be centered at the standards institute and have wide powers, including subpoena power, to investigate building failures.

Spurred by the troubled inquiry into the World Trade Center collapse, the House today gave final Congressional approval to a bill that would create a federal panel to investigate building disasters in the same way that the National Transportation Safety Board looks into train and plane crashes.

The bill's sponsors -- chiefly Hillary Rodham Clinton, a New York Democrat in the Senate, and Sherwood Boehlert, a New York Republican in the House -- contend that it would not only give the government new authority to investigate building disasters but would also allow the government to determine how future disasters might be avoided.

Table 6 presents the obtained collapse probabilities corresponding to the MCE hazard level for the investigated building models.