Obviously, it was struck by a wet bird flying at night.
A slo-mo disaster, until the tipping point. Please stay tuned...
It’s going to take one hell of a canopy to hold the building up.
We’re gonna need a MUCH bigger canopy.
since it opened over a former landfill in 2009
When did they change the Law or Code?? I know for a fact that previously you could Never Build on a landfill, most old landfills are Golf Courses with luxury homes around it.
Wouldn’t there be a huge problem if the ground floor is 18 inches below street level? Or does the settling include the surrounding area, including the paved streets? Perhaps the settling includes movement before the building was finalized too. Otherwise it would seem to me this would be like an elevator cab that got stuck 18 inches below the floor, with the doors open.
This building is going to have to come down, there is no way to save it. It would cost more to do what needs doing than to re-build from scratch.
Its called overstress. They are going to have to implode the whole structure. From what I understand its not on a good foundation. Not sure if they have the tech to jack it up from underneath, but the settling is going to continue. Sooner or later...
Are all aspects of the STRUCTURE plumb and square?
Is the building truly "sinking"?.....unevenly?
Somebody wanna explain how you jack it back to level?
Perhaps its time to develop a SAFE demolition plan?
A sky scraper on a landfill. Who would be this stupid?
Appropriately named. LOL!
I’d move out and fast!
What if there is an earthquake?
Well THERE'S your problem!
Uh oh. Somebody(s) got greedy.
Money problems, moral problems, septic problems, and literally sinking problems S.F. In in descent. Liberal leftist leaders just are great for the world.
Building on fill is tricky. We had a mall here in Pittsburgh that was built on fill that was subsiding at a fantastic rate. The whole place shook whenever a big truck rolled nearby. It was finally demolished last year.
Joe Montana owns a condo there.
Just wait until the next earthquake.
Not as well known is the fact that the building was settling more rapidly than “calculated” early on in its construction. This was noted by the Hancock Tower's neighbors, as the the Copley Plaza Hotel and the Trinity Episcopal Church began developing cracks in their foundations. It was determined that, as the Hancock Tower settled, it was “pulling” the adjacent structures down with it.
John Hancock Co. solved the first problem by buying the Copley Hotel. However, even John Hancock did not have the resources to buy the Episcopal Church. The problems continued until a bright engineer determined that the ground beneath the structure could be stabilized by freezing it in place, and a substantial portion of the sub-basements were dedicated to housing the same type of machinery that freezes the ice at the former Boston Garden.
Voila! The fix worked and the ground beneath the structure is permanently (or at least as long as John Hancock pays the electrical power bills) frozen. I am assuming that the tower in SF does not have this option available.