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- 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.
sfist.com/2023/06/21/is-the-leaning-millennium-tower-fixed-structural-retrofit-finished-tower-tilting-slightly-less/Leaning Millennium Tower Finally Fixed? Structural Retrofit ...
Jun 21, 2023 · The $100 million fix to the notoriously leaning 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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Nov 16, 2021 · The proposed fix to the Millenium Tower is to install piles along two sides of the building’s perimeter. That may seem kind of simple, but there is a lot of clever engineering involved to make it work. Fifty-two piles will be drilled along the north and west sides of the tower all the way down to bedrock.
Jun 21, 2023 · Litigation brought by the homeowners association against the developer over the sinking and tilting issues was settled in 2020, which paved the way for the retrofit to move forward. The solution is a scaled-down version of a fix originally proposed by Hamburger, which involved the use of 52 piles.
Jan 30, 2023 · Hamburger halted the repairs in August 2021, after the voluntary fix, designed to stem the total of about 18 in. of settlement, had instead accelerated it, causing a 1-in. increase. SGH, Shimmick...
Jan 13, 2022 · CNN — San Francisco’s swanky Millennium Tower has been slowly sinking for years – and, as a result, the 58-story skyscraper tilted at a rate of up to 3 inches to the north and west last year,...
Jun 21, 2023 · All 18 of the concrete piles meant to stabilize San Francisco’s famously leaning and sinking Millennium Tower have now been driven into bedrock, completing the $100 million fix of the luxury ...
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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...
