The designer of the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower announced a new plan Tuesday that would dramatically reduce the originally proposed 52-pile foundation retrofit plan to just 18 foundation ...
NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned that a recent acceleration in tilting of the Millennium Tower has prompted engineers in charge of the so-called "fix” to employ an unconventional strategy ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Limited work on a fix for San Francisco's leaning Millennium Tower has resumed, but at least one leading structural engineering consultant believes it's time to put the ...
The foundation upgrade has been likened to putting a bumper jack next to a flat tire. It relies on drilling and jacking 52 concrete piles—socketed more than 30 ft into the bedrock that starts 220 ft ...
Work on the nearly $100-million perimeter pile upgrade of San Francisco’s sinking Millennium Tower, to prevent significant future settlement, is set to start next month, now that litigation over the ...
Since completing construction, the 58-story Millennium Tower has become San Francisco’s most infamous building. The tower is founded on piles driven through soft, compressible clay soils deposited by ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – A major construction fix to stop the city's Millennium Tower from sinking has been abruptly halted. Behind the tarps on the corner, heavy equipment sits silent on the corner ...
The Millennium Tower in San Francisco now stands 1 inch straighter after a $100 million fix. Eighteen concrete piles meant to steady the sinking and tilting luxury condominium highrise have been ...
After a year in which the beleaguered Millennium Tower in San Francisco underwent an unsuccessful "fix" that ended up exacerbating its sinking into the Soma mud, a new plan is afoot for 2022. The ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Limited work on a fix for San Francisco’s leaning Millennium Tower has resumed, but at least one leading structural engineering consultant believes it’s time to put the brakes ...