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PROFESSOR is interviewing World Trade Center survivors in a bid
to influence legislation and make skyscrapers easier to
evacuate. By combining engineering with experiences of those
evacuated from the Twin Towers in 2001, Greenwich University
professor Ed Galea hopes to revolutionise skyscraper design and
save lives. The 48-year-old, who has dedicated 20 years to
understanding how people are evacuated, says designing buildings
around people's experiences will make them easier to escape
from. The project began 18 months ago and so far 300 of more
than 10,000 surviving evacuees have been interviewed by his
team. Now the Australian-born professor is calling on survivors
in south east London to come forward and share their
experiences. So far only two have been interviewed from the UK.
Once the team has conducted 1,000 interviews the information
will be used to come up with ways of re-desi