San Francisco's leaning, and sinking, luxury condo high-rise

[Hitch]

Would you spend $3.8 million dollars, for a one bedroom condo, in a building that is sinking and leaning? Plus, in earthquake prone San Francisco.

It's sunk 16 inches so far, and leaning 2 inches to the northwest.

What's even crazier, is nobody is claiming responsibility for this epic fuck up. The builders blame the city contractors. The city contractors blame the builders for cutting costs.

From what it sounds like, it could potentially sink about 120 feet until it hits bedrock. The first 10 stories could become basement apartments..lol.

Yup, lot's of lawsuits over this one...

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/1/12341914/millennium-tower-sinking

[crimethink]

I would not live in Sodomcisco for free. I would not live in Sodomcisco if I were paid a million/year!

This is just the new state of affairs in civil "engineering." The new Bay Bridge isn't much better.

[mamboni]

Would you spend $3.8 million dollars, for a one bedroom condo, in a building that is sinking and leaning? Plus, in earthquake prone San Francisco.

It's sunk 16 inches so far, and leaning 2 inches to the northwest.

What's even crazier, is nobody is claiming responsibility for this epic fuck up. The builders blame the city contractors. The city contractors blame the builders for cutting costs.

From what it sounds like, it could potentially sink about 120 feet until it hits bedrock. The first 10 stories could become basement apartments..lol.

Yup, lot's of lawsuits over this one...

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/1/12341914/millennium-tower-sinkingAmerica now has her own Leaning Tower [of Pisa]. That building will never collapse, baring the big one, and will likely become desirable for it's leaning demeanor and notoriety.

[Joshua01]

Komiefornia? Who cares?

[Neuro]

Would you spend $3.8 million dollars, for a one bedroom condo, in a building that is sinking and leaning? Plus, in earthquake prone San Francisco.

It's sunk 16 inches so far, and leaning 2 inches to the northwest.

What's even crazier, is nobody is claiming responsibility for this epic fuck up. The builders blame the city contractors. The city contractors blame the builders for cutting costs.

From what it sounds like, it could potentially sink about 120 feet until it hits bedrock. The first 10 stories could become basement apartments..lol.

Yup, lot's of lawsuits over this one...

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/1/12341914/millennium-tower-sinking

This really is a case of bad engineering and cutting corners. If the foundation is poor you'ld get a poor building. They should have made piles going down 200 feet to the bedrock instead they pound them down 80 feet into mud.

[Glass]

This really is a case of bad engineering and cutting corners. If the foundation is poor you'ld get a poor building. They should have made piles going down 200 feet to the bedrock instead they pound them down 80 feet into mud.

taking some lessons from the chinese?

[palani]

The library at Tulane university was built using modern methods on pilings. Except when they calculated the weight of the building and sized the pilings they forgot to include the weight of the books.

In the 70's when I was there steps had been built to get down to the 1st floor.

[madfranks]

The Millennium’s engineers anchored the building over a thick concrete slab with piles driven roughly 80 feet into dense sand. "To cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock," or 200 feet down, the transit center authority said in its statement.


For a project of this size, there is most definitely an engineered geotechnical report/soils analysis report, in which would be the foundation recommendation from the soils engineer. If this report recommended 200-foot piers to bedrock and they only went 80-feet into sand, this is an open-and-shut case. Whoever approved the "cost savings" measure is done, and likely their entire firm is done too.