Articles Tagged with ''Millennium tower''

After snags and a redesign, the team working on arresting significant future settlement of the 645-ft-tall condominium tower has declared the $100-million fix a success.

The team for the revised pile upgrade of the 645-ft-tall residential building expects to complete the work to stem settlement by the end of September.

The city issues a revised building permit for a perimeter pile upgrade scheme that reduces the number of piles from 52 to 18.

Engineers working on the retrofit to stabilize the building developed a plan with 18 piles instead of 52, as had been considered earlier.

Using a modified method, Shimmick’s Legacy Foundations restarted work on the troubled perimeter pile upgrade of the ailing Millennium Tower in San Francisco.

Coverage related to the COVID-19 pandemic continued to attract the most page views, but there were also several engineering failures that garnered much attention as well.

The structural engineer for the tower's perimeter pile upgrade has proposed a scheme to reduce the number of piles and speed the delayed project to completion by the end of 2022.

There was no measurable settlement during the Dec. 1-3 drilling for the second permanent pilot pile installed at the northwest corner of the troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco, says Ronald O. Hamburger, engineer-of-record for the perimeter pile upgrade designed to stem settlement of the 645-ft-tall residential condominium.

By installing a pilot pile for the settling Millennium Tower's troubled foundation repair, Shimmick Construction hopes to prove the efficacy of revised construction methods so that work can continue without triggering accelerated building settlement.

The team working on the troubled foundation fix of the settling Millennium Tower has switched gears again due to equipment troubles.