But I could be wrong about that...
Posted on 06/11/2023 10:35:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Bay Area’s Millennium Tower has only continued to tilt further and sink deeper west in spite of architects’ best efforts to steady the ritzy building.
The multimillion-dollar-per-unit tower is now leaning more than 29 inches at the corner of Fremont and Mission streets — a slant over half an inch deeper than previously revealed, according to monitoring data reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit.
The half-inch tilt was reportedly gained while engineers dug beneath the sinking condominium earlier this year to support the weight of the tower — which was built atop a former landfill — along its two sides.
Fix engineers saw progress in stabilizing the Millenium Tower’s north side along Mission Street after implementing six concrete-filled steel piles along its base in January, but it may have come at a cost to the tower’s west side, the data shows.
Rooftop-based monitoring data — which is based on rooftop measurements and foundation-based determinations — indicates the tower shifted nearly an inch to the west compared to its tilt before it was supported on the north side.
Engineers in charge claim the data may not be reliable, despite pointing it to as proof of success earlier in the first phase of the project.
Project engineer Ron Hamburger told NBC in a statement that the rooftop figures are prone to weather fluctuations and said purely foundation-based data is more reliable.
The foundation-based digits also show that the tower is tilting more toward the west than ever, but only by about a quarter of an inch — a lean Hamburger claimed was “negligible.”
“We are fully confident that following transfer of the remaining design load to the piles,’’ Hamburger said, adding that “there will be no further … movement of the roof to the west.”
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If your sills were shot and your
timbers was okay, I’d say fix her up.
If your timbers were shot and sills
was okay, I’d say fix her up.
But your sills are shot
and your timbers are shot.
LOL....”which was built atop a former landfill”...This is where I stopped reading. I wouldn’t build a garage over a landfill and I’m not an engineer. Just a guy with common sense!.
Just go to Harbor Freight and buy a shitload of bottle jacks. Problem solved.
“The energy I am getting is there are smart people out there and they are trying to buy the dip,” he said.
no pun intended, right?
I think they just cut some shims off scrap lumber and hammer ‘em under and tack them in place. Well, that’s what I do with cabinets, anyway…
Ain’t engineering degrees neat huh Moe.
But I could be wrong about that...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4156935/posts?page=36#36
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4159961/posts?page=4#4
They’re already having plumbing issues.
Seems like a lot of folks in San Francisco have “plumbing issues”.
I assume being San Francisco the ‘engineers’ were chosen based on inclusivity...
3 gays who cross dress and steal women’s luggage at airports
two black engineers who were ‘math challenged’ and were accepted to MIT based on skin color,
and 2 women with IQ’s in the 105 rages who ‘feel’ this can be done... but don’t want to talk about it.
Another sign is when the building falls over.
That would about cover it.
All boxes now checked.
morons built it on a landfill, if a good earthquake happens, by by tower..
what about all the damage from the 1989 earthquake during the world series, lots of damage due to liquid faction
Not among the big buildings downtown. I was there that day, on Sansome St. I had to rescue my great-uncle from his apartment in the Marina (his building didn’t collapse, but the pipes were all broken and it was unlivable).
All the buildings further out than, I think, Market and Montgomery are built on landfill. There is a marker there indicating the shoreline of 1849. There are a lot of 30+ story buildings built on landfill, and they have stood, some of them, for 50 years. I worked 30 years in one of those big buildings.
Maybe 1/4 of SF’s business district is built on landfill. Its been going on for over a century.
The poop chute is exit only😂
Some are “end bearing” and some are “side friction supported”. Both tpes are used.
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