An independent engineering review team has given its nod to the San Francisco Dept. of Building Inspection regarding permitting of the proposed $100-million structural shoring scheme for the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower—which has settled 17.3 in. over more than a decade. Though the recommendation for approval of the scheme prompted a global settlement of the construction litigation, DBI will not begin its building permit application reviews until after the preliminary environmental review, due November, is complete.
The reviewers “didn’t fundamentally change anything” about the engineering scheme, says Gregory Deierlein, a Stanford University engineering professor who, as a DBI consultant, chairs the foundation retrofit engineering design review team for 301 Mission Street, the tower’s formal name.