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To something solid and removable. Engineers believe that should finally stop the Leaning Tower from sinking and tilting. It may even reverse some of the lien. Each time crews started digging , it caused the building to lien and sink even more. So, officials officially scrapped their original plan to install 50 to support piles and submitted a new one that relies on just the 18 already in the ground. The plan is now to extend the foundation and attached one corner of the building to some of those 18 piles, but that requires even more digging. As you can see, crews are busy digging 25 feet down on the Northwest Side of the building. The transfer from the existing foundation to the new perimeter files is very complex. Reporter veteran geotechnical engineer, bob pyke , says, by design, they are not supposed to be rigid to me more like an adjustable cushion. He worries, without all ....
Despite initial progress in the first phase of the so-called fix earlier this year, the sinking and leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco is now tilting. ....
Scaled down from the original plan, the revised fix relies on 18 piles instead of the initially proposed 52 to anchor the 645-foot high-rise to bedrock on the two sides where it's leaned and tilted the most, helping both prevent future tilt and straighten the building. ....
San Francisco building officials have formally signed off on a scaled-down plan to fix the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, a key hurdle that fix officials. ....