by Brianna Crandall — May 28, 2014—Lend Lease, a global provider of fully integrated property and infrastructure solutions, recently announced that is honored to recognize the completion of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Lend Lease served as the construction manager for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. The 9/11 Memorial previously opened on September 11, 2011, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Lend Lease helped conduct recovery efforts for months following the attacks, and oversaw the site cleanup operation, so has been closely involved in the events of the site, and is honored to help bring closure through the construction of this national landmark.
Designed by Davis Brody Bond, the Museum will display monumental artifacts linked to the events of 9/11, while presenting intimate stories of loss, compassion, reckoning, and recovery that are central to telling the story of the 2001 and 1993 attacks and the aftermath, explains the company. It will communicate key messages that embrace both the specificity and the universal implications of the events of 9/11; document the impact of those events on individual lives, as well as on local, national, and international communities; and explore the continuing significance of these events for the global community.
The Museum, which is located at bedrock of the World Trade Center (WTC) site, is below the memorial plaza and the acre-size reflecting pools that sit within in the original footprints of the twin towers. The Museum and entry pavilion are located on the western edge of the Memorial site. Below grade, the Museum is bound by the Memorial plaza overhead, the Memorial pools, shared support spaces, the central chiller plant, the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) tracks and terminal, and the slurry wall.
Visitors will enter the Museum through the entry pavilion, which houses an auditorium and a private room for victims’ families. The lowest level at bedrock features the original west slurry wall, which is supported by a counter fort system and the remaining west slurry wall with a concrete reinforced liner. The original tower footprints are defined by the preserved original box column remnants, which are visible and accessible to visitors that ring the core exhibition spaces.
To reduce the impact on the local environment, while staying in compliance with the WTC Sustainable Design Guidelines and Lower Manhattan Environmental Performance Commitments, Lend Lease implemented a robust and sustainable program focused on reducing water usage and carbon emissions, and optimizing the quality of the indoor environment during construction.
“As the world turns its attention to the National September 11 Memorial Museum, we at Lend Lease take great pride in the monumental accomplishment of completing this nationally significant project,” said Bob McNamara, CEO of Lend Lease Americas. “We are thankful to our project team, who overcame many challenges to complete this project. The remarkable talents and unwavering dedication of these men and women of Lend Lease have created a place of remembrance of the nearly 3,000 victims, and all those who risked their lives to save others. It further recognizes the thousands who survived and all who demonstrated extraordinary compassion after the events of that tragic day,” said McNamara.
