Course Project: Rebuilding Ground Zero
PM 3225 Project Management Tools and Techniques

Introduction On September 9, 2001 the city of New York was attack by terrorists, which end up in destroying the World Trade Tower buildings and taking the life of over 2,700 people in the attack. It took nearly a year of around the clock worker to remove debris and recover bodies from the destruction. Meanwhile debates were rage on how best to rebuild the World Trade Center and memorialize all the victims in the tragedy. The initial plans called for the rebuild to be completed by 10th anniversary of the attacks. A combination of political struggles, financial problems and legal squabbles among the various parties involved led to repeated delays, and rebuild efforts are still ongoing still today. The Memorial which was schedule to be dedicated at the 10th anniversary was pulled off with success; however the museum is still under construction. The National September 11 Memorial and Museum occupies about half of the 16-acre World Trade Center site. It contains two large waterfalls and reflecting pools, each about an acre in size, set within the footprints of the Twin Towers that fell. On the bronze parapets surrounding the pools are inscribed the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terrorist attacks as well as those killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. With multiple changes to the original design of the Freedom Tower and prolonged disputes between the various parties involved over financing, Silverstein handed control of the project over the building’s development to the Port Authority in 2006, and construction of the tower began in earnest after that date. In 2009, the Freedom Tower was officially renamed 1 World Trade Center, in response to concerns that the original name would make too tempting a target for future terrorist attacks. After