William Baker
 William Baker    ( engineer) | |
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| Born | October 9, 1953 |
| Nationality | US |
| Member of | PIAB |
William Baker is a US structural engineer specializing in high-rise buildings and wide-span roof structures. He was a member of FEMA Probe Team after 911. He contributed to the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed. He was a member of The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
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Education
After obtaining a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Missouri (1975), Baker briefly worked for ExxonMobil and later completed his master's degree at the University of Illinois (1980). In 1981, he joined the architecture and engineering firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP (SOM) in Chicago; he became a partner there in 1996.
Career
He is known as an expert in high-rise buildings and wide-span roof structures. His construction projects include the Broadgate-Exchange House (London, 1990), the Cayan Tower in Dubai, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, the Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, the NATO headquarters in Brussels, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion and the BP Pedestrian Bridge in Millennium Park in Chicago, the Raspberry Island - Schubert Club Band Shell in St. Paul (Minnesota) and the GM Renaissance Center Entry Pavilion (Detroit, 2005) and, for the roof structures, the McCormick Place North Building Expansion (Chicago, 1986), the Korean Air Lines Operations Center (Seoul, 1995), the Korea World Trade Center Expansion (Seoul, 2000) and the Virginia Beach Convention Center (Virginia Beach, 2007).[1]
9/11
Baker was a member of FEMA Probe Team. He contributed to the flawed NIST report on why the WTC buildings collapsed.[2]
