Posted on 10/22/2021 6:29:06 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
New data shows San Francisco’s Millennium Tower tilted an additional quarter of an inch during the week of the first test of the troubled fix -- the maximum level predicted by the designer of the $100 million project.
Since work began on the plan to shore up the tower on two sides in May, the building has sunk more than an inch at the northwest corner, which translates to another 5¾ inches of lean to the west toward Fremont Street. The sudden accelerated settlement led to a work stoppage in August and a test program for new construction strategies designed to stop more sinking and tilting during construction.
Last week, soon after crews installed the 100 foot long, three foot wide steel casing in the first test phase, Hamburger declared the test was “successful,” stressing that building movement over two days was approximately one hundredth of an inch.
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Are you sure of that?
Was your phone in your pocket without turning it off?
—”If the tower had been fully vaccinated, this wouldn’t have happened.”
NO!
Not covid.
Sildenafil may help?
Check with clinton’s physician.
—”Perhaps that technique is being tried on the Millennium Tower?”
No doubt Mr Hambuger is checking seven ways to Sunday.
When not distracted by the fine print of his E&O coverage.
That's a twofer.
-PJ
“If a 645 foot sky scraper in San Francisco falls in the middle of the night, are there any squeals?”
Have you seen the Vaillancourt Fountain in San Francisco? When it was unveiled quite a few years ago a columnist said that when the next earthquake hit it could turn into a building.
I don’t think I’d trust an engineer named “hamburger” to keep a heavy object from crashing to the ground.
The leaning tower of Piss Street?
Piss &....................
Leaning Tower of Sodom.
What is the Vegas line on when it will fall?
Or at whatever else one can place a related wager?
BTW - the new socially conscious math isn’t going to help in this real world situation.
It was before bed. I got a warning at 15%, continued using phone, eventually 5%notification and certain things I had ooen, saved and closed.
XiJinBiden appears to be doing what my phone does. He is owned by the PRC, of which Huawei is the largest phone company, courtesy of stealing Nortel secrets and bankrupting them. Of course True-dolt quashed all efforts to start a government inquiry into it.
Pisa, move over.
The poop on the street will cushion the fall.
The local TV reporter at the link is named “Raj Mathai”.
Hmmmm.
—”The local TV reporter at the link is named “Raj Mathai”
Probably a graduate engeneer lacking in ESG math moved on to a different line of work.
Zillow, good thinking!
Some interesting data.
The relationship between property taxes and the current angle of repose.
Tending toward zero?
Public tax history
Year Property Taxes Tax Assessment
2020 $18,718 (+1.9%) $1,474,000
2019 $18,371 (-2.6%) $1,474,000 (-4.3%)
2018 $18,862 (-31.6%) $1,541,000 (-33%)
2017 $27,582 (+19.7%) $2,300,000 (+20.4%)
2016 $23,045 (+1.2%) $1,909,870 (+1.5%)
2015 $22,768 (+3.5%) $1,881,182 (+2%)
2014 $21,996 $1,844,334 (+0.5%)
2013 — $1,836,000 (+21.5%)
2012 — $1,510,914 (+2%)
2011 — $1,480,756
The falling skyscrapper should concern animal activists because of the threat to rats, cockroaches, and pigeons.
It looks like this tower has domino potential!
645 feet of twisting torsion should not be a problem.
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