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WILLIAM J. LeMESSURIER
WILLIAM J. LeMESSURIER
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Bill, as he was known to family, friends, and colleagues, was born June 12, 1926, in Pontiac, Michigan, to William James LeMessurier, Sr., who owned a dry cleaning business, and the former Bertha Sherman, a homemaker. The youngest of four children, he attended the Cranbrook School for Boys (whose campus was designed by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen)
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Bill developed an especially close professional relationship with architect Hugh Stubbins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, collaborating most notably on the design of Citicorp Center in New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Singapore Treasury Building, and the Yokohama Landmark Tower, the second-tallest building in Japan. In the 235-meter-tall Singapore Treasury Building, 1.47-meterdeep steel plate girders cantilever 12.2 meters out from cylindrical concrete shear walls to support column-free office space.
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led him to believe that lateral accelerations at upper floors of the building could be disturbing to building occupants. Subsequent wind tunnel tests performed under the supervision of Alan Davenport at the University of Western Ontario Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory confirmed that wind accelerations would likely be 60 percent greater than generally accepted comfort criteria, primarily because the building was so much taller than its neighbors.
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When Bill discovered that increased wind forces had not been considered during shop drawing review of the revised diagonal brace connections, he decided that the brace connections should be reinforced to reduce the risk to public safety -- even though the New York City building code and the three national building codes in effect at the time did not require design for simultaneous application of wind from two orthogonal directions. Bill was also a highly regarded educator, lecturing at MIT's Department of Civil Engineering, several Structures Congresses of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
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Lloyd Kimbrough Award in 1999. He also received honorary doctor of engineering degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998 and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2002.
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