Guy runs a building engineering channel with excellent analysis on failures such as the towers collapse in Surfside, Florida. In this video, he shows that the engineers that designed the ongoing fix for the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in San Francisco missed a crucial calculation on a load-bearing steel plate.
It's worth watching his playlist on just how fuckered the history of this building is. The short version is that they tried to save about 1% to 2% on construction costs on a building that costs $350 million by not going down to bedrock, and they've been paying for it ever since.
I haven't 30 minutes for this. Downtown SF is abandoned. Since the pandemic most of the buildings have been emptied. Homeless shit all over the place, the fact that this is happening really isnt surprising. Chances are Gen X and Boomers put this design together and Greedy developers only saw money. What should be looked at is what is the cost to remove and replace it. From what I did see, fixing it is just as expensive and just as much a nuisance.
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