Sinking to new lows
 

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Aug 1, 2016

I'm no construction engineer, but 40cm down and 10cm to the side is a recipee for a disaster.

Indeed, it sounds like the start of a whole lot of CRASH BANG WOLLOP. Also, after a 40cm. drop, how do they get the front door open?:hmmm:

The front door ?? How come the steel beams havent buckled yet and failed :o

Yep. I'd say that it could be moving a lot more in the future :-?

Certainly doesn't sound too good :hmm2:

Just wait and add some cellar apartments, you can then gradually build on, on top, to come to past famous heights again.
Of course you will have to shift the main entrance upwards.. :hmmm:

One option is to pump cement under the building and construct new pilons.

As of yet after the 2014 safety rep[ort it seems all is A-OK.

Tell that to the owners of the appartments.

If I owned an apartment in that building I'd be checking and upgrading (if possible) my insurance cover with immediate effect.

AKBBY: 1:101: "Build not cheaply upon the muck lest thee sink 2 aby$$"
 

I watched this go in just a block from my 30 floor court bldg just South on Beale Street @ Mission. Old ships are still found buried in the mud around there (two blocks in from the Bay front) but the 'bedrock' is solid. I suspect that it will not become a leaning tower of Pisa. At 10' per floor: (when it 'hits the bedrock' 120 feet below:know:)...it will be a perfectly nice 46 floor building with 12 new basement levels!:O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisco) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._June_2006.JPG

Why do I have the feeling we're going to see something spectacular, yet sad, on the news in the near future? :hmmm:

An awful lot of the land on the Bay side of the San Francisco peninsula is reclaimed Bay landfill and, as noted by Aktungbby, some of the fill was done by beaching Gold Rush era ships and throwing rock and soil over the lot. I remember when they were building the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system in the mid to late 60s, they did, indeed, find more than a bit of old ships, earthquake destroyed buildings, and other rubble as they dug the tunnels; there was much concern in the news reporting of the BART digs about the ultimate stability and safety of the tunnels. After the 1906 Great Earthquake, many buildings did, in fact, collapse when the land fill underneath them gave way. For the developers to cut corners and do such a shoddy job seems to give cause for possible criminal prosecution; the apartment owners are now certainly going to sue, civilly; aside from quite possibly losing their homes, even if the problems are fixed, the value of their holdings will be seriously diminished if they try to sell...



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I'm not an expert, but do know a little something about building collapse. An unstable, tilting building is not good.