High-Rise Safety NYC

Engineering Accountability for Safer Skylines

Founded in 2014 from unresolved engineering questions surrounding World Trade Center 7's collapse, High-Rise Safety NYC advances structural forensic accountability. Led by Don Butterfield, the organization achieved ballot status for its High-Rise Safety Initiative through 30,000+ citizen signatures—proposing a .9% construction permit surcharge to fund independent probes of high-rise failures.

The group challenges NIST's 2008 WTC7 report, citing destruction of steel evidence and refusal to release modeling data as critical flaws. They contend WTC7's collapse—unprecedented for fire-induced high-rise failure—demands transparent analysis to update global building safety codes, ensuring future investigations preserve physical evidence and use verifiable methods.

Butterfield's Technical Briefing

Current Momentum

• Political Alignment: Goals resonate with 2025 congressional demands, including Senator Ron Johnson's call for hearings on WTC7's controlled demolition-like collapse.

• Institutional Support: The NY Fire Department (3,000+ personnel) persistently endorses new investigations, amplifying calls for accountability.

• Public Consensus: 2023 polling shows 160+ million Americans doubt official narratives, fueling grassroots pressure for transparent engineering reviews.

How You Can Help

Explore their resources and original ballot initiative:

🔗highrisesafetynyc.org 📄2014 Ballot Initiative (PDF)

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