Civil Engineer at Ground Zero

"A project in which everyone wants a say"
Michael Stein is the Swabian engineer - responsible for the receipt of
the new World Trade Center in New York. The special thing about this
job? The cable net facade with Kevlar ropes. And that the whole world
is watching the outcome.

All had gone as expected, sitting Michael Stone, 43, not here: in the
middle of Manhattan, in the 24th Stock one of the many skyscrapers in
the 8th Avenue. He wears a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. On
his desk are blueprints, protractor and calculator. Concentrated, he
paints with a pencil sketch on one of the plans, then the phone rings.
Here is the New York branch of the Civil engineering studio Schlaich
Berger and Partners, a Swabian family business with headquarters in
Stuttgart. Stone has built the office almost single-handedly. His
assignment: the World Trade Center building one.
"It is all very happy together," says Stein, "and it's great that we
can help build on the 1 World Trade Center." Stein and his team that
is actually already out of the race, because they compete for the
revival of the terrorist scene Ground Zero only occupied second place.
The winner was the star architect Daniel Libeskind.