Referred to as an “entrance to eternity” by the Washington Post, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum honors the 2,979 people who perished in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, PA, on 9/11, as well as the victims of the February 1993 bombing of the Twin Towers.
STV served as the owner’s representative for this highly impactful and sensitive project, supervising the construction manager and monitoring the progress of each of the 46 individual trade contractors who worked on the site.
Memorial waterfalls are set within the footprints of the original Twin Towers. They are the two largest engineered waterfalls in the nation, each featuring a bronze parapet inscribed with the names of the fallen. The memorial also includes an eight-acre, landscaped plaza with walking paths and more than 300 swamp oak trees. A pear tree, dubbed the “survivor tree” because it survived the 9/11 attacks, is included with the plaza.
Additionally, the program included a state-of-the-art museum, which brings visitors below the memorial voids where they can view the slurry wall and other remaining structures at the foundation of the original buildings. The eastern portion of the structure sits on top of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.
All construction was coordinated at an interconnected site within the 16-acre World Trade Center redevelopment, where work on one project could potentially impact another nearby.
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largest engineered waterfalls in the nation
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swamp oak trees within the plaza
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individual trade contractors
