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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Probably cheaper to buy the properties in the ‘fall line’, evacuate those and then demo the building into those - clean up the whole mess and start from scratch.
Looks straight to me but, you can never tell by the way they look.
Yep. Idiocracy.
If a 645 foot sky scraper in San Francisco falls in the middle of the night, are there any squeals?
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or, Will anyone care.
Actually it would not cause any damage. The piles of human fecal matter would act as a cushion.
Kind of a sickening image that conjures up.
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