San Francisco luxurious skyscraper tilting 3 inches per 12 months
SAN FRANCISCO – A 58-story luxury San Francisco apartment building continues to sink, sloping about 3 inches per year.
Construction of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco began in 2005 and was completed in 2009. According to Curbed San Francisco, the tower is the sixth tallest building in the city. But since construction was completed, officials say the building is sloped about 26 inches to the north and west where it was originally built.
“We’re starting this New Year 2022 as we ended last year and many other years, with the Millennium Tower continuing to fall and tilt,” City Mayor Aaron Peskin said before a recent meeting on KNTV-TV in San Francisco.
The engineer in charge of repairing the problematic building says that without a repair, the luxury building’s slope could reach a slope of 40 inches, which would be the point where the elevators and plumbing may stop working.
KNTV reports that the engineer told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an update hearing last week that the building would remain secure and that installing 18 steel piles in the bedrock is the best way to stop and potentially part of the tipping of turning back.
“The building continues to rise at a rate of about half an inch per year and lean at a rate of about three inches per year,” he said, according to KNTV. “It does this whether we are working on the site or not. The building will remain secure, but while the building will remain secure, we believe the project needs to resume construction and complete this construction quickly.”
