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I mean, someone signed off on the footings of the millennium tower, too. SF is not taking a cautious, informed approach, they’re just burying their heads in the
by abakker 7y ago
I mean, someone signed off on the footings of the millennium tower, too. SF is not taking a cautious, informed approach, they’re just burying their heads in the sand.
- wahern 7y agoFriction piles are used around the world, including in far more seismically active areas like Japan. In fact, in many ways they can be advantageous. I don't think I've read a single article on the Millennium Tower where a professional claimed that the tower engineers did anything but apply proper, modern structural engineering. At best the few criticisms are more like, "but I wouldn't have done it." When unexpected things happen it doesn't always mean anything was done wrong, or even that anything should be done differently in the future.