The residents of the Millennium Tower which rises to 58 floors in the city of San Francisco, United States.
It was built in 2009, but since 2016 it has been collapsing.
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According to the records of engineers reviewed by local media, the tower has collapsed 45 centimeters and, too, it has leaned 43 centimeters to the west.
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In order to stop this situation, in May 2021 structural work began. It was proposed to strengthen the base and install 52 pylons that, in total, would cost close to $ 100 million.
Millennium Tower, San Francisco, United States.
He bows and bows much more than they predicted
However, the intervention stopped in late August due to the collapse of the building.
“As a precaution, we have decided to wait two to four weeks to install the pylons. We are looking at raising the settlement rate and what we can do to mitigate that.”, he pointed out Doug Elmets, spokesman for the Millennium Tower Association, on CBS.
Just across from the Millennium Tower is Salesforce Tower, San Francisco’s tallest building. So the skyscraper area has a steady stream of citizens.
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“We are out of bounds in an alarming way,” he opined Rune Storesund, engineer and executive director of UC Berkeley Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, in interview with ‘NBC’.
Experts point out that the tower would be collapsing more than expected. Calculations indicated that he would reach one limit of 13 centimeters of subsidence by 2026. However, for the engineer Storesund it is not like this: “That’s a big red flag. It bends and bows a lot more than they predicted.”
The Millennium Tower (left) is next to Salesforce Tower (right), the tallest building in San Francisco.
Similarities with Champlain Towers?
The collapse of the tower recalls the tragedy of the collapse of Champlain Towers in Miami which left 98 dead.
In July 2021, Ronald Hamburger, An engineer at the Millennium Tower, rejected the comparisons when questioned by CNN.
“The collapse of the residential building in Surfside was tragic, but it is too early to speculate on what caused this disaster, and any potential comparison to Millennium Tower would be reckless and premature.” he mentioned.
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The Champlain Towers building collapsed on June 24, 2021 in Miami, USA.
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Hamburger also defended the structure of Millennium Tower: “It was designed with strict earthquake resistance standards and is a much tougher form of construction than typical Florida buildings, which don’t need to be designed to withstand earthquakes.”
How much is an apartment in Millennium Tower?
Residents are wealthy people. There is even an apartment Joe Montana, a former professional American football player.
One of the most expensive apartments in the building was initially sold for about $ 6 million (22.5 billion Colombian pesos at the current exchange rate), According to the ‘Insider Business’ portal.
This is how the interior of one of the apartments in Millennium Tower, San Francisco, United States looks like.
Page: millenniumtowersanfrancisco.com
Instead, with the recent news they are offering from from 700 thousand to $ 3 million, As reviewed on the ‘Vanguard Properties’ page.
Meanwhile, Doug Elmets, a spokesman for the Millennium Tower Association, has insisted the building is “safe” and will be evaluating how to resume reinforcement work.
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