Work done by Shimmick and its foundation’s division, Legacy Foundations, on San Francisco’s Millennium Tower was recently featured in Engineering News Record magazine for reaching the final stage of “load transfer, which consisted of raising all 18 piles to 1,000 kips each, again 100 kips per day.”
The voluntary effort to address settlement and tilting issues in San Francisco’s Millennium Tower has been declared a success. The project involved transferring loads to 18 new perimeter piles driven to bedrock, and survey data confirms that settlement has been arrested, and the building has even slightly risen out of the ground.
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