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Millennium Tower Tilts ¼ Inch in Week of Key Test
NBC ^ | 21 Oct 2021 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

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.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
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Mr Hamburger spends his free time studying the fine print of his E&O policy.

NB: Fix is for election day and horse races. Slowly collapsing buildings, not so much.

1 posted on 10/22/2021 6:29:06 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They’re about to find out what tolerance reply means.


2 posted on 10/22/2021 6:31:19 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz (0 )
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..... Hey, it could be a good thing!.................
3 posted on 10/22/2021 6:31:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

leaning left no doubt...


4 posted on 10/22/2021 6:31:47 AM PDT by wny ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

As long as the building is not in an earthquake zone, they should be fine ...


5 posted on 10/22/2021 6:33:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: wny

Mr Hamburger


6 posted on 10/22/2021 6:33:23 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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7 posted on 10/22/2021 6:33:36 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Naturally it leans Left.

DNC needs to buy it and use it as their HQ.


8 posted on 10/22/2021 6:33:56 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

One should build his house on rock…..not bum crap. (Semi biblical reference)


9 posted on 10/22/2021 6:34:51 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: EEGator

Bidens “Build Back Better “ program in action, no doubt.


10 posted on 10/22/2021 6:35:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I will be gone soon to go fight in the Kumite for honor. I may not return.)
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11 posted on 10/22/2021 6:37:13 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

why do I just know that sooner or later that taxpayers are going to be on the hook for this....


12 posted on 10/22/2021 6:39:11 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The bank put a lean on my house years ago — Oh, wait...


13 posted on 10/22/2021 6:43:46 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If a 645 foot sky scraper in San Francisco falls in the middle of the night, are there any squeals?


14 posted on 10/22/2021 6:43:50 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Lockbox

If they are biting the pillow hard enough, you can’t hear the squeals.


15 posted on 10/22/2021 6:46:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Yeah...it’s going.


16 posted on 10/22/2021 6:48:47 AM PDT by moovova (I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s right in San Francisco.


17 posted on 10/22/2021 6:49:46 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

There are probably 1,613,912 voters (all democrats) living in that building. I wonder ifg that has anything to do with it?


18 posted on 10/22/2021 6:50:12 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

San Fransicko? The tower is obviously leaning to the left.


19 posted on 10/22/2021 6:50:12 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: qwerty1234

Absolutely correct - everyone goes bankrupt trying to fix the unfixable, and the taxpayer will have to pay the multi-millions needed to demolish it when it’s condemned.


20 posted on 10/22/2021 6:50:15 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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