 William LeMessurier, the founder Cambridge, Massachusetts engineering firm LeMessurier Consultants has been credited in developing this award winning system as part of his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The staggered truss system came about due to sponsored research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering in the 1960s by U.S. Steel.The research attempted to achieve the same floor-to-floor height with steel as you could with flat plate concrete.