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Originally Posted by viewguysf
There is no steel frame. Millennium Tower is completely heavy concrete, causing the weight problem for the insufficient foundation on bay fill.
As a side note, the tower is 645 feet, not 605 as illustrated above.
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Well that's even worse. You have a giant reinforced concrete box that's tilting. Major cracks in the foundation around the building and in the building itself, which obviously means the steel inside the concrete is contracting/expanding and under severe stress. Yet..... Engineers are allegedly saying "its fine"...…. And now we're supposed to believe that simply digging under the building and adding new piles to support one of the heaviest buildings on the west coast in earthquake country should do the trick.....
Ok i'll bite. But what about the tilt ? will digging down to bedrock correct the tilt? and the fact that the developer had the nerve to say that construction nearby is to blame because they shifted dirt around.....What happens when there's an earthquake??? Both LA and SF have seen sooooooo much new construction in terms of high rises and its been nearly 30 years since both have suffered major earthquakes. If shifting dirt is to blame for this towers lean, lets pray that other developers don't have the same mindset.
at this point I vote tear it down and start over. I feel bad for all those tricked into buying a condo there.