“It’s a great relief,” said Ron Hamburger, a senior principal with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, the engineering firm in charge of the project.
The completion of the most recent work, in which 18 concrete piles were driven into bedrock deep under the property to shift a portion of the building’s load onto the new structures, marks another step in a saga that has spanned years and reportedly involved multiple lawsuits and millions of dollars to fix the original construction error. The building’s tilt has also been reported to have worsened since construction to mitigate the issues launched in November 2020, leaning roughly 29 inches to the northwest corner. Last week, the homeowners' association for San Francisco’s Millennium Tower announced that a $100 million project to fix the building’s leaning issues has been “substantially complete.”Īccording to reports, the 645-foot-tall residential condominium, composed of 58 stories, has sunk a total of 17 inches since its completion in 2008.