![]() Oh, in case you’re interested, the building is located at 301 Mission St., San Francisco. So I have to ask, given all the difficulties and risks of living in a large structure, is it worth the risk to buy a condo unit in a large complex? Given that this is a ‘luxury’ building, and some of the apartments in this building sell for millions of dollars, would you risk buying a condo? Here’s the most recent video, a news report on the difficulties of living in an accidental mobile home: While I am not a structural engineer, it does seem that the steel plate is quite small to translate the weight of the building to the ground. I heard another podcast discussing how the fix to the tower, from two months ago: This has been going on for quite some time: Millennium officials stress that the computer model accounts for that wall – predicting the underground structure itself will sink along with the foundation over time, as the fix shifts some of the tower’s weight to the east.I only learned of this structural nightmare a few days ago. The wall – built to protect the underground parking structure next door – is buried beneath the 10-foot thick mat foundation, right under the higher side that needs to sink if the tower is going to straighten out even a few inches. If it turns out the tilt doesn’t improve more, experts say that 90-foot-high underground wall under the foundation’s east side may be to blame. “Any recovery is welcome news but is not the primary objective of the retrofit and would be expected to occur gradually over time,” DBI said in a statement. Officials with the city’s Department of Building Inspection credit the fix for having stopped the tower’s tilt troubles from getting worse. While Millennium fix officials acknowledge there has been less tilt and settlement improvement than the computer model predicted at this point, they stress that: “given the many assumptions and simplifications inherent” in such analyses, they see the “match between measured behavior and the analysis as excellent.” If the tower does not right itself any further, the high-rise could be left permanently tilting 29 inches as measured at the northwest corner of the roof. “Unless you were magically able to jack the building up further,” he said, “we are still left with a significant tilt of the building.’’ Poulos suspects tilt recovery peaked right after jacking was done. The simulation analysis predicted as much as four inches of offset in the tower’s tilt, occurring at a continuous rate during the first six months after jacking.īut the recent monitoring data shows that after the early progress of three quarters of an inch of tilt improvement over nine days, tilt improvement has stalled in the more than two months since. To predict how the building would behave following jacking – that’s the process of shifting some 18 million pounds of weight onto the new support piles – Millennium fix engineers relied on an elaborate computer model. Millennium Tower residents complain of unpleasant byproduct of continued tilt
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