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Millennium Tower Fix Shifts to Hasten Completion (Timbrrr coming?)
NBC Bay Area ^ | 11/10/2022 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

Posted on 11/14/2022 6:37:52 AM PST by vespa300

Millennium Tower fix engineers have scrapped an elaborate strategy designed to prevent more tilting at the troubled high-rise as they push to complete the project – a shift in strategy that critics say amounts to gambling, but monitoring data suggests is paying off so far.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; jaxonvanderbeken; millennium; millenniumtower; sanfrancisco
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Good luck but I think i'll avoid the whole area for awhile...if ya know what I mean.
1 posted on 11/14/2022 6:37:52 AM PST by vespa300
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2 posted on 11/14/2022 6:39:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: vespa300

Might be some cheap condos for sale.


3 posted on 11/14/2022 6:39:49 AM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Red Badger

ya.....just call Home Depot. Talk to their guys. I’m sure they got something to fix it.


4 posted on 11/14/2022 6:40:28 AM PST by vespa300
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ACE is THE place with the helpful hardware man!..............

5 posted on 11/14/2022 6:42:05 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: vespa300

Kind of a metaphor for the city in general. Prop it up, prop it up until…..


7 posted on 11/14/2022 6:44:08 AM PST by gunnut
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My wife and I made sure to note the place on our last trip to San Francisco.

We then said we didn’t want to get within a mile of it, after we (furtively?) did our shopping.


8 posted on 11/14/2022 6:46:23 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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a shift in strategy that critics say amounts to gambling

Is the name of the architect Art Vandelay?

9 posted on 11/14/2022 6:47:57 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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Seems to me they could just inject cement under the structure, no?......................


10 posted on 11/14/2022 6:48:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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...along with some skilled labor...


11 posted on 11/14/2022 6:48:20 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: gunnut

When leftists start to talk about “sustainable development” I just say...

“You mean like San Francisco, a city sitting on a major earthquake fault line”...

;-)


12 posted on 11/14/2022 6:49:18 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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The fill underneath the building is unstable—it was built on the ruins of the 1907 earthquake.

What could possibly go wrong?

;-)


13 posted on 11/14/2022 6:50:51 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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Perfect. We just need 42,000 packages. ;-)


14 posted on 11/14/2022 6:51:15 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: vespa300

It needs to come down. That’s the only cure for a “sinker.”


15 posted on 11/14/2022 6:52:07 AM PST by Babba Gi
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To: moovova

No kidding. I was watching bricklayers and they’d throw a brick up to the guy on the scaffolding. The brick would just sit there in the air for a while, like the Roadrunner Cartoons, and then the guy up there would grab it. It really seemed to defy gravity. Never saw a miss.


16 posted on 11/14/2022 6:53:40 AM PST by BobL
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To: cgbg; dfwgator

We built this city on Rock & Roll!..................


17 posted on 11/14/2022 6:54:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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The problem is that it wasn’t built on bedrock, and they tried to use friction piling instead. But that didn’t work.

Injecting cement or concrete won’t solve the problem; it will just displace the soft ground underneath it.


18 posted on 11/14/2022 6:54:59 AM PST by kosciusko51
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I saw that when they built the house across the street from my house. It was like slow motion...................


19 posted on 11/14/2022 6:55:04 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: kosciusko51

We have a similar problem in Florida.

But the engineers solved it a hundred years ago.................


20 posted on 11/14/2022 6:56:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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