Posted on 01/11/2022 9:28:32 AM PST by MAGA2017
SAN FRANCISCO — A 58-story luxury apartment building in San Francisco continues to sink and is tilting about 3 inches per year, the engineer responsible for fixing the troubled building said.
At the current rate without a fix, the Millennium Tower in just a few years could reach a 40-inch tilt, which would be the point at which the elevators and plumbing may no longer operate, said Ron Hamburger, the engineer.
Hamburger told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an update hearing last week that the building remains safe and that installing 18 steel piles to bedrock is the best way to stop the tilting and possibly reverse some of it, KNTV-TV reported.
“The building does continue to settle at a rate of about one-half inch per year and to tilt at a rate of about three inches per year,” he told supervisors. “It is doing this whether we are conducting work at the site or not.”
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Meh, if it fell over, there wouldn’t be much of a loss.
At the rate that SF and California are losing population...
If the building fell to the ground, would anybody notice (or would it make a sound)?
"...the building remains safe and that installing 18 steel piles to bedrock is the best way to stop the tilting and possibly reverse some of it..."
Do they have some confidence the "repair" will be done before the next 6.0 quake?
Or, that it will "work"?
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.
I wonder who thought it was a good idea in the first place to build a tower on landfill and sand instead of bedrock.
So a building in San Fransicko is bending over, lovely.
I wonder if its tilting left.
Couple of 1 ton floor jacks it’ll be fine.
Being it’s San Fransicko, it’s obviously tilting to the left. I would have thought it would be a lot quicker than 3 inches a year.
My take would be, tear it down. Better to tear it down now rather then have it fall down. Take your lumps. To continue on “fixing” it is folly.
It’s In a earthquake zone , one good shake and it’s doomed.
Gonna need a lot of Viagra for that building.
Can’t they tether it to some nearby trees?
/driest_possible_sarcasm
But it's no longer a seaport because centuries of global cooling have reduced the sea levels (moved the waterline away from Pisa) more than the Current Warm Period has raised the sea levels. The same with Ephesus, Ur, Pevensey Castle, Portus and tons of other ancient ports that are too far away from water to be called ports. An interesting thing about both Ur and Ephesus is that they are so ancient they've seen multiple eras of warming and cooling. It looks like each time we have a warm period the sea levels don't quite get up to what they were in the prior warming period. (i.e. Ephesus had a port in the Roman Warm Period when the Apostle Paul wrote his famous letter Ephesians, but lost the port during the Dark Age and I believe there's no account of it being a port again later during the Medieval Warm Period). So it may be that the cooling periods like the Dark Age (300's to 800's) and Little Ice Age (roughly 1300's to 1800's) cool us more than the warming periods warm us like the Medieval Warm Period (900's to 1300's) and Current Warm Period (1800's to present, maybe cooling again in the 2200's or 2300's).
Something to think about when the Dims demand we "trust the science" on global warming and such.
>>Meh, if it fell over, there wouldn’t be much of a loss.
Except for the taxpayers, who undoubtably will end up footing the bill as everyone involved declares bankruptcy leaving ‘us’ on the hook.
At the current rate without a fix, the Millennium Tower in just a few years could reach a 40-inch tilt, which would be the point at which the elevators and plumbing may no longer operate, said Ron Hamburger, the engineer.
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I read a story a few months back that the plumbing in some apartments was already not working well. Horizontal drains are typically pitched at 1” per foot of run. If the pitch becomes less, the water flow will not cary away all the waste. Too much slope and the water leaves the pipe too quickly leaving behind “goodies”.
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