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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Let me guess; the tower is leaning hard to the left of the plumbing line.
Funny coincidence that West means viewed from the usual orientation from above that means it is tilting left.
Except:
“At Ancient Aliens we don’t believe in coincidence.”—Giorgio Tsoukalos
and
Gibbs’ Rule #39:
There is no such thing as a coincidence.
First mentioned in “Obsession” on NCIS
(Episode 21, Season 7).
Good references!
Who cares?
poorly written article.
I’ve long said NASCAR embodies the only Left turns problem with modern America.
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?
Plus how do they tie in the foundation to those inside and outside pilings?
The only solution is either an all-gay or all-female engineering team to address this.
They very well could be. There are drilling machines (and I imagine pile drivers) that can be taken apart and hand carried - down elevators or up mountain trails.
I guess going 5 to 8 feet at a time to 200’ deep is still easier than going to 15,000 feet at 30’ at a time to reach oil.
Pisa 2.0
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.
Did you mean to leave out the fake-genders? How transphobic of you! ;)
Maybe the City should condemn the building like what happen to many Florida condos.
Feel sorry for those who puchased units in the building.
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