They went with a foundation driven 80 feet deep into a layer of dense sand.
Location in United States. Officials say the sinking is not to blame for the cracked windows.The panes are set to be replaced in the coming weeks.In September, a cracked window caused new concern at the problem-plagued Millennium Tower which has been sinking and tilting slightly. A long time city supervisor, he starts most days with a swim in the Bay then meets constituents at a North Beach coffee shop, where the Millennium Tower is a popular topic. Nothing unusual about that.
“You see tour buses go down Mission Street that stop and point out Millennium Tower. And so you got to design your foundation and your sub-surface to support that higher weight.Frank Jernigan: We didn't do it but once, and this is what we got. I don't think they -- they obviously didn't anticipate anything like this, close to it.Jon Wertheim: On the sale of this apartment?Aaron Peskin: I don't think it was in reference.
They measure, in millimeters, the slow growth of cracks along the columns that rise up from the building's foundation.Jon Wertheim: Perpetually freeze the ground under this building?When the fog rolls in over San Francisco, the skyscrapers live up to the name.
It fell to Millennium's geotechnical engineers to analyze the ground below and design an appropriate foundation. And because it doesn't sink or settle uniformly, you get tilting.Jon Wertheim: The northwest side.Petar Marinkovic: Few red dots means something's going down. The agreement “will also set the framework for a final settlement and release of all claims related to the condition of the Millennium Tower, including the homeowners’ claims related to impacts on the building from construction of the Transbay Transit Center and Salesforce Tower”, the spokesman PJ Johnston said in a statement.“Mission Street Development has made clear from the beginning that its top priority has been to address and resolve the conditions that caused the building’s past problems,” Johnston said. Everywhere you look in downtown San Francisco, they're building another skyscraper. Building inspectors confirmed one south-facing window on the 12th floor and an east-facing window on the 14th floor are cracked on the inside.Also last September, cracks in steel beams at the new Salesforce Transit Center, adjacent to the Salesforce Tower, forced the closure of the transit center, with transbay service once again provided from a nearby temporary transbay terminal.It’s not clear what caused them to crack.SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Two cracked windows have been discovered at San Francisco’s tallest building, the Salesforce Tower, months after cracked windows were found a block away at the sinking Millennium Tower.A spokesperson for the building’s owner says since the damage is on the inside there is no danger of glass falling onto the street.In October, more cracked glass was found on the building’s exterior. I mean, literally.So did Jerry and Pat Dodson. It's very hard to see. Though priced in the millions, the inventory of posh apartments moved quickly. Peskin is leading hearings into what is causing the trouble.Larry Karp: For a big, heavy building, a concrete building, those foundations have to go deeper.