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1. practical.engineering › blog › 2021/11/10What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower? — Practical ...

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   Nov 16, 2021 · The Millennium Tower’s foundation consists of a 10-foot or 3-meter-thick concrete slab supported by 950 concrete friction piles driven into the subsurface to a depth of about 80 feet or 24 meters. Friction piles spread out the load of the building vertically, allowing much more of the underlying soils to be used to support the structure without becoming overwhelmed.

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2. sfist.com › 2023/06/21 › is-the-leaning-millenniumLeaning Millennium Tower Finally Fixed? Structural Retrofit ...

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   Jun 21, 2023 · NEW: A years-long retrofit effort to stop #SanFrancisco's Millennium Tower from tilting and sinking is now in its final stages and has been deemed successful in counteracting the 400+ unit condo ...

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4. www.enr.com › articles › 56665After 15 Years, Settlement Arrested at San Francisco's ...

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   Jun 21, 2023 · After overcoming several snags, the team for the voluntary effort to stem future significant settlement and tilting at San Francisco’s 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower has declared the project a ...

5. www.enr.com › articles › 55821-first-load-transfer-aFirst Load Transfer a Success at Troubled Millennium Tower in ...

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   Jan 30, 2023 · Workers in the trench along Mission Street prepare the piles and jacks for the initial load transfer operation, part of the perimeter pile upgrade for the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower. Photo by ...

6. sfstandard.com › 2023/06/21 › san-franciscosSan Francisco’s Infamous Millennium Tower Has Been Fixed

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   Jun 21, 2023 · “We look forward to completing the remaining non-structural elements of the Perimeter Pile Upgrade in the coming months and are confident that the engineering upgrade will restore our building’s reputation and the value of condominiums while putting to rest to any lingering questions about the Tower’s stability,” Millennium Tower Homeowners Association President Howard Dickstein said ...

7. boingboing.net › 2022/06/18 › an-already-appliedAn already applied Millennium Tower retrofit passes ...

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   Jun 18, 2022 · The saga of San Francisco's Millennium Tower continues. An engineering design review of Ronald Hamburger's new plan to only use 18 pilings, vs the prior 52 piling design, found no reason to ...

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   Did San Francisco's Millennium Tower retrofit work?

   • And now the San Francisco Business Times reports the Millennium Tower retrofit has been completed, with encouraging early results. NEW: A years-long retrofit effort to stop #SanFrancisco 's Millennium Tower from tilting and sinking is now in its final stages and has been deemed successful in counteracting the 400+ unit condo tower's issues.

   Leaning Millennium Tower Finally Fixed? Structural Retrofit ... - SFist

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   Did the Millennium Tower retrofit really work?

   • A $100 million fix was initiated in 2020, but discouragingly, the fix only made the tower lean more. So a revised fix was approved last August. And now the San Francisco Business Times reports the Millennium Tower retrofit has been completed, with encouraging early results.

   Leaning Millennium Tower Finally Fixed? Structural Retrofit ... - SFist

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   Is the Millennium Tower fix over?

   • If all continues as expected the saga of not just the fix, but the fix of the fix, for the troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco may be over by the end of September. The team for the revised perimeter pile upgrade—intended to stem and recover some of the settlement and tilt of the 645-ft-tall tower—reached a milestone last week.

   First Load Transfer a Success at Troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco

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   What's happening at the Millennium Tower in San Francisco?

   • A $100 million construction effort to address the sinking and tilting issues at the Millennium Tower, an infamous leaning luxury condo building in San Francisco’s SoMa District, has been substantially completed, according to the building’s homeowners association.

   San Francisco’s Infamous Millennium Tower Has Been Fixed

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   How much tilt did Millennium Tower recover from a load transfer?

   • The Millennium Tower's Homeowner's Association announced on Wednesday that an analysis of the tower's foundation showed recovery of nearly one inch of tilt following a final load transfer that was conducted as the last phase of the $100 million project over the past 10 days.

   Millennium Tower's tilt and settlement recovering as structural

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   Is Millennium Tower reversing its tilt?

   • Structural Retrofit Finished, Tower Tilting Slightly Less The $100 million fix to the notoriously sinking and tilting Millennium Tower is completed, and early results show the encouraging development that it’s already reversed its tilt by, well, an inch.

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9. www.bizjournals.com › sanfrancisco › newsMillennium Tower's tilt and settlement recovering as ...

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   Jun 21, 2023 · A yearslong retrofit effort to stop San Francisco's Millennium Tower from tilting and sinking is in its final stages has been deemed successful in counteracting the 409-unit condo building's issues.