Let me guess; the tower is leaning hard to the left of the plumbing line.
Who cares?
poorly written article.
I guess they could jack up one side....
How do the sink new pilings under the building?
Are they using a pile driver and short pieces of steel or wood pilings inside the basement?
Sometimes design work is better done by men...
From my office windows I watched them building that for years, from a hole in the ground to just about complete. I always thought it was something of a vanity project.
Kind of a fitting place for a tower of Babel.
Maybe the City should condemn the building like what happen to many Florida condos.
Feel sorry for those who puchased units in the building.
It’s built on a landfill. A garbage dump. The tallest and probably the most massive building in San Francisco is built on top of a garbage dump. They built it on top of a garbage dump. I can’t get my head around it.
I’ve been to a few garbage dumps. They take truckloads of household garbage plus all sorts of junk and put it in a huge hole and drive bulldozers all over it to squash it down. I can imagine forty feet of plastic garbage bags full of dirty diapers, milk cartons, metal cans, and paper towels. Coffee grounds. Rice, bacon grease, egg shells. This stuff decays at different rates. Metal rusts away and the space inside the can fills with water. There must be at least 15% of the volume as trapped air. Then water seeps in from runoff and percolating down into the soil. Methane is a byproduct of dumps as the garbage decomposes. Wood, paper and food are all mostly cellulose which is carbohydrates. The carbohydrates decay into water and methane.
I don’t see how this could be considered stable by any stretch of the imagination. They would have had to sink pilings deep into the ground all the way through garbage and well into any bedrock below. That’s a lot of pilings to support the building and they would have to have supported the entire structure above the garbage knowing that the garbage would not support any weight.
If it doesn’t fall over it will be a miracle. If an earthquake happens before they get it fixed up they could be screwed.
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.
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What will they say when it falls? Don’t believe the data your lying eyes feeds your brain?
Project engineer Ron Hamburger
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There’s the problem right there.
“Engineers in charge claim the data may not be reliable...”
The engineers at the Three Mile Island reactor made the same claim.
I want to see them forced to resort to a blocks-wide flying buttress right out of the middle-ages so their ineptitude will be visible so long as the building stands.
Building on a foundation of garbage is so perfectly west coast, left wing.
In completely unrelated news, the construction of the adjacent High Speed Rail Terminal to Nowhere proceeds apace.
Well, the Tower of Pisa leans over 13 feet and that’s after they straighten it. Of course, nobody lives in it.
Heeling to Port...Heeling to Port If your USN, you’ll get it.
And check out the bit about the density bonus program.