San Francisco building officials have formally signed off on a scaled-down plan to fix the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower.
He says that by design, the new support piles are not rigid. They function more like adjustable cushions to keep from damaging the existing concrete slab foundation when load is shifted onto them. But Pyke worries by scaling down to just 18, the piles won’t function as well as they would if there were 52.Pyke has argued that is just one reason city officials should halt the project. Another, he says, is the risk from all the new digging needed at the corner of Mission and Fremont Streets.
But now that the city has approved the scaled-down plan, fix engineers say the work at the corner of the tilting tower should be done by year’s end. While an outside expert questioned the assumptions of the computer models used for the fix, its engineers stand by their assertions that the 18 piles are enough to stop the sinking and reverse some of the tilt. The building currently leans about 29 inches at the northwest corner.
Raj Mathai speaks with Jaxon Van Derbeken on this.
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