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San Francisco Files Lawsuit Against Sinking Millennium Tower
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> Engineers have questioned the wisdom of building skyscrapers with foundations in mud and clay. A skyscraper being constructed next door has made it clear that its foundation, unlike the Millennium Tower, reaches down to bedrock. Even in the "valleys" below Manhattan, where the bedrock is deeper than downtown and midtown, skyscrapers must be anchored to the bedrock [1]. For all of San Francisco's development brouhaha, it appears that when the political stars align its regulation is light. (The conventional wisdom, "that Manhattan developed two business centers--downtown and midtown--because bedrock is close to the surface in these locations," is wrong. "Bedrock depths [have] very little influence on the creation of separate business districts; rather its poly-centric development was due to residential and manufacturing patterns, and public transportation hubs...[there is] evidence, however, that bedrock depths influenced the placement of skyscrapers within business districts" (emphasis mine).) [1] http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejmbarr/skyscrapers/bedrockJuly2010.pdf http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejmbarr/skyscrapers/bedrockJu...
- MichaelBurge 10y agoThe owners shouldn't be filing a lawsuit. They should pay for an engineer to assess the damages and see if it's possible to fix the building, and depending on the results file a claim with their insurance company to pay for the work. The insurance company then has the resources to pursue any lawsuit, against either the city or the developer.