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The engineer responsible for the ongoing retrofit of the troubled tower, Ron Hamburger, acknowledged last year what he called “horizontal movement” of the 10-foot-thick foundation mat, according to documents provided to the city and reviewed by NBC Bay Area.
In one analysis, engineers estimate the building had moved as much as half an inch, but Hamburger said in response to questions this week that the tower base has moved a full inch since construction.
That movement, Hamburger acknowledged to city officials in August, is creating a widening gap between the 58-story high-rise and the mid-rise building adjacent to it, which houses a five-floor underground parking garage that serves the tower.
“Given the present westward tilt of the building, about 24 inches as measured at the roof, the gap between the two buildings in the east-west direction has widened by about 1 inch,” Hamburger said in a statement to NBC Bay Area.
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A great metaphor for SF.
Just wait until the buildings designed by ‘equitable math’ are built.
Yes indeed… with affirmative action ‘labor’ no less.
The headline says it’s sinking, the retrofitter says it’s going sideways and “it’s a given” that it’s tilting a couple of feet to the left. No bueno. Sounds like one of the town bums can’t stand up straight. Let’s hope it doesn’t take a shit on the sidewalk during the next tremor.
So?
I wonder if they want to re-think ‘Millennium’ as the name for their tower.
Have they tried Viagra?
And like everything the left does, when it comes crashing down, everyone else has to pay for the damage.
Welcome back, Mr. Hat.
I hope all is well and you are back to your normal bitchy cantankerous self again.
Don’t ever change. 🤡
I think that building was developed by one of feinstein’s husband’s business associates. Same guy that built salesforce, next door- the building with the cracked structural beam. His son was the guy that hacked congressional computers for blackmail to not vote for kavanaugh.
There’s probably a bail out in the built back better bill for them.
The kids’s hearing was secret, for ‘national security reasons,’ and the web has done been scrubbed, it appears.
They cut corners when they built it
Someone should start a prediction lottery for the day and time it falls over. There’s money to be made there.
OK, the retrofit engineer is “Ronald Hamburger”?
LOL
Who knew that human waste and needles are a poor choice for building foundations?
With any luck an earthquake will straighten it out.
Nah.
Just looks a bit shorter with all the human shit piling up on the streets & sidewalks.
So what does Mayor McCheese have to say about all this?
So when are they going to report that this building will force the demolition of all buildings in its path. You know it has to land somewhere.
*yawn*
Well, ain’t that somethin?
More stupidity from CA, particularly San Fran?
I’m pretty certain that Pelosi will “appropriate” a couple of $Billion to straighten it all out.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Vice & corruption weighing heavily…
Much of San Francisco is built on filled land. That is why it is in such danger from earthquakes.
@billyhall2546: “…They cut corners when they built it…”
IIRC, most of the other tall SF buildings’ foundations have pilings or piers that are driven all the way down to bedrock. This one doesn’t. It just sort of floats on/in silt, a great way to put up skyscrapers in an earthquake zone, yeah?
It’s going to fall over and take down whatever it hits on the way down.
Almost as funny as the time I convinced a Liberal that snow could be used as landfill!
When the building crashes, it would be fair dinkum if it took out the Tenderloin District.