San Francisco's Millennium Tower stabilized, but still tilting

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Published 2023-09-08
New monitoring data shows that while the $100 million Millennium Tower fix appears to have stopped further sinking and tilting, the building is not reversing the lean at the rate predicted by engineers.  Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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All Comments (21)
  • @michaelmarks1391
    One of the most interesting aspects of this whole saga to me is how after every corrective action, the powers that be declare victory, start giving each other 'good games', and opening champagne. Then something happens to show that no, in fact, it definitely isn't fixed. Then they go right back to work with the tough, serious talk, and, having sternly applied another two layers of very expensive duct tape, begin celebrating again. It seem like this cycle has been repeated a dozen times. The Hamburglar and crew will go to any lengths to sell the story that now everything is under control despite all history and evidence to the contrary. We have all been saying it for years, but apparently it needs to be said again: this building cannot and will not be fixed. It isn't possible. The emperor has no clothes. What we have here is a 'botch,' and, like the famous bent pyramid, one will always be able to tell it is a botch. That is, as long as it remains standing. This whole kabuki theater has been orchestrated to separate those responsible from liability for their incompetence and graft with as much time as possible.
  • @diegoflores9237
    Put a wad of napkins underneath a corner of the building, that's what I do with my uneven chair. You're welcome
  • @tstahler5420
    You have rotated the tires on a car with a bent frame. 😂
  • @SuiteVII
    So how’s the plumbing working?
  • @AresWing314
    Owners are waiting for an Earthquake to collect insurance instead of tearing it down to fix correctly.
  • @zaria5785
    Please interview the residents. I want to know how many have already packed up and left and how many are ready to sell. That race happens usually a year before the collapse. I hope no one loses their lives.
  • @propblast82nd
    Everything in San Francisco leans to the left 😂
  • @williamryan9195
    If it is still tilting it is not stabilized. A little play on words doesn't mean the problem went away or wrong suddenly becoming right.
  • @williamrogers.
    More proof that the movie "Ideocracy" was an actual a documentary.
  • @jntj3007
    A structure this tall and this heavy should've never been built on that land. As such, this structure will continue to be a problem...until it is demolished. The developers and SF officials will continue lying about why the problems exist until the building is demolished. Then they'll lie about why the building was demolished.
  • @kenneybis1097
    A tilt that severe of a building that size the added stress on structural components must be extreme. Static loads and live loads are calculated with the center of gravity vertically so this is uncharted water. Within 10 years the tower will be a total loss 📉
  • @nehemiahvaughn4768
    I worked in that tower. As a young man fresh out of high school, these were some of the greatest times of my life.
  • @jucutan
    Just do what I did for my old Tool Shack that was tilting in the backyard, Get a 2 by 4 and shove it in the area it's tilting. That'll straightend it out in no time!
  • @RacerX1971
    What a nightmare..how can one sleep at night living there?
  • @monsterpig3270
    Every lie is a Debt to the truth until one day, that debt is collected. Unfortunately, in this case, the debt will be paid with human lives.
  • @PJWalmsley
    "If it turns out there is no further long term recovery, a ninety foot underground wall we first told you about last year, may be to blame. It's buried right under neath the higher side of the foundation that needs to sink if the tower is going to straiten even a few inches . Millennium officials say their model predicts the wall will itself sink along with the foundation over time." Lmfao
  • @cayrick
    City officials can be expected to sing the same song as the developpers. Both are complicit. I hope for the best but as the narrator suggested there are a multiple of assumptions in the coimputer modelling which was designed by the same guys that sold the fix.
  • @user-ek5tl4nu7p
    The engineer: The perfect place to build this massive tower is on a foundation of wet sand.
  • @TransistorBased
    Press f to doubt that the contractors who built it and did the fix 'got it right' this time around
  • @halfdom
    take a gander at San Francisco’s millennium tower. That skyscraper is leaning more than 16 inches or more off plumb and sinking. Efforts by the engineers have supposedly stopped it from sinking, but they can’t get it straightened. look up the building to determine exactly how much off center it currently leans. My sister met one of the condo owners who lives in the building, and was told that the lean is enough for kitchen cabinet doors to swing open and drawers to slide outward. I wonder how long that building will be able to take the stress of it having that much weight leaning to one side. It’s a very tall skyscraper very close to other skyscrapers.