Jonathan Cole PE: "The 2009 AIA "Architecture Exchange" (ArchEX) East convention held in Richmond, VA, November 5-6 had more than 110 exhibitors, most representing building products and services. AE911Truth's 950 A/E petition signers were quite well represented in our booth by the volunteer team I assembled for the event. We were doing what we do best: disseminating scientific information and facts about the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11. ... we outlined why the official story fails to explain key evidence and conflicts with fundamental laws of physics. NIST failed to even address the implications of the acceleration rate of the three building's descents, the energy necessary for the pulverization of concrete and the high-speed horizontal ejections of steel, the heat needed to create the iron spheroids, and of course failed to explain the nanothermite found in the dust — having refused to even look for it or any other explosive residues. One architect said the outer walls of WTC 1 and WTC 2 peeled away like a banana and the "collapse" looked "normal" to him.... One of the architects who signed the petition was very familiar with the Twin Towers, having "worked on original drawings for towers as a student in the 60's.... 25 saw enough evidence to sign the petition right then and there, including five degreed and licensed architects.""