FEMA's WTC Building Performance Study

The only government entity that purported to examine the collapse of Building 7 within the year following the attack was the Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT) composed of volunteer engineers selected and supervised by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).
Members of the BPAT examine some of the few pieces of steel that the people running the "cleanup operation" sent their way at Fresh Kills landfill.

Members of the BPAT examine some of the few pieces of steel that the people running the "cleanup operation" sent their way at Fresh Kills landfill.

In May of 2002, BPAT published their World Trade Center Building Performance Study. 1 Chapter 5 of the Report is devoted to Building 7. It makes unsubstantiated claims and uses a variety of deceptive techniques to make the total collapse of Building 7 due to fires seem less implausible than it is. A copy of Chapter 5 marked up by an anonymous author exposes many of these deceptions.

The Report is inconclusive about the cause of Building 7's collapse, stating:

By the time the Report was published, calling for further research, investigation, and analyses, nearly all of the structural steel had been recycled.

References

1. World Trade Center Building Performance Study, fema.gov,