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Article: Engineer Watches as Bulldozers Unearth His World Trade Center Slurry Wall.
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- January 17, 2002
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By Charles D. Brunt, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 17--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--Ralph Peck of Albuquerque has been watching the excavation of the World Trade Center rubble with uncommon interest, even for an engineer.
As the cranes, bulldozers and excavators dig farther into the subterranean levels of the former twin towers, they have uncovered one of Peck's many achievements as a geotechnical engineer.
Peck, 89, helped design the massive concrete walls that form the so-called "bathtub" on which the 1,350-foot-tall towers were built.
The excavation recently laid bare the top section of the bathtub, a ...