Posted on 12/08/2021 7:10:59 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Newly released monitoring data shows that San Francisco’s Millennium Tower tilted a quarter inch during the four days it took to install the first test pile to bedrock last month.
Veteran geotechnical engineer Bob Pyke said the sudden fluctuation is a telltale sign.
Other experts say the water pressure drop is evidence that the method designed to limit settlement may not be working as well as hoped.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...
Seatbelts for couch potatoes? Bedside airbags?
Pay per view with inside and outside views? Plus a toilet cam to gauge the angle of the dangle...
What a bust. I can’t believe anybody’s a tenant in there anymore.
Put some crap and needles under the corner.
The Architect Sketch in real life.
Nobody will have the guts to order its destruction before it falls and I don't see any engineering solutions being implemented in time either.
A perfect shelter for the ‘homeless’.
Looks like we’re dealing with “experts” again,as the article states. Waiting for the first expert to blame....climate change!
Put all the homeless on the high side to level it again.
Somebody doing the earthquake prayer dance 24/7....
So the city knows this thing is leaning. If it falls tomorrow how liable is the city?
I predict legitimate renters will abandon the building. It will fill up with homeless and illegal aliens. They will wreck the inside of the building. The leftist government won’t do anything because “the poor have a right to a home.” Eventually, the delapidated building will collapse. It will be a disaster. The Democrats will blame it on capitalism, climate change, or systemic racism.
Anyone else pause the video when they showed the graph? Looks like over 1.5” of settling since January of this year. Whatever was going on in July and August had it sinking at a pretty good rate. The spread of readings means the sinking is not uniform - adding stresses... I’m not a building/civil engineer but...this does not look good. It looks like it is going to need significant intervention/remediation or it is going to break up and come down.
What a bunch of dodos.
—”I don’t see any engineering solutions being implemented in time either.”
More than likely the new piles going all the way to bedrock will do the job, unlike the original friction piles.
Plus they have a fair chance to collect from a nearby construction project for dewatering?
And It is the Salesforce Transit Center??? Owned by the taxpayers???
If needed there will be a bazillion attorneys holding the building up for some of that lawsuit.
“Climate change” caused the SF earthquake of 1906.
It was all those autos on the road and planes in the sky!
(Then some “experts” decided it was a good idea to use the rubble from the quake as the “bed-rock” for the rebuilt city.)
They still use toilets in SF?
haha - you’d think your statement would make a good joke, except we both know you’re probably spot on.
Obviously an endless discussion on ‘white supremacy’.
—”Does each installed test pile increase the lean by 1/4 inch? If so, here’s another 1/2 inch.”
IIRC from other reading, and that is questionable, it is their professional opinion, over time the opposite side on the original friction piles will settle enough right the building.
Also, they changed the procedure for the newst piles.
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