Engineer Proposes Slashing Scope of Millennium Tower Pile Upgrade

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The revised pile scheme would use the modified installation procedures developed after the initial work accelerated the settlement of the 645-ft-tall building.

January 3, 2022
Nadine M. Post - Engineering News-Record

Based on further structural analysis and the success of a pilot program that installed three permanent piles using modified procedures, the structural engineer-of-record for the delayed perimeter pile upgrade of the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower in San Francisco has proposed a significantly reduced scope for the project that he says would still arrest settlement and allow the slow recovery of some of the condominium building’s tilt.

Reprinted courtesy of Nadine M. Post, Engineering News-Record

Ms. Post may be contacted at postn@enr.com

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