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• W. Gene Corley, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency's team of investigators looking at how the World Trade center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, has succumbed to cancer, his employer, CTLGroup, said.
• Corley was considered a preeminent forensic engineer, investigating natural and manmade building failures and also worked extensively on building codes for concrete structures.
• The 77-year-old senior vice president at CTLGroup was a fellow of the American Concrete Institute and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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He served in key leadership roles of numerous technical and professional organizations. Gene was a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers where he helped establish the Structural Engineering Institute and served as Chair of the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering. ...