The Foundation built in San Francisco residential complex “Millenium Tower”, where at the time he bought many wealthy and famous customers, for eight years sank into the soil at 40 cm. The building itself is the result of a tilted vertical by five inches, writes the San Francisco Chronicle.
According to Professor Stanford University Greg Deierlein, roll and drowning of the building, constructed in 2008, is a serious problem. According to the expert, the Foundation of the complex of the famous Malaysian “Petronas twin Towers” since the commissioning in 1998 left the ground less than eight inches, and the tower tilted less than half an inch.
Some residents believe that the integrity of the skyscraper was under threat because of the ongoing construction next to the transport hub. Thus, responsibility can be imposed on the developer of the project “Millenium Tower”, its architects and contractors, or the city hall, on the initiative and under the control of which is being built transport hub.
Owners of the 58-storey skyscraper hired a team of engineers to identify potential risks of changes in structure.
Reliability of tall buildings, especially landmark, often questioned, provoking high-profile trial. In 2006, businessman and former state Duma Deputy Alexander Lebedev has publicly stated that the Foundation under construction of complex “Federation” has a crack and so the structure may collapse. Crack searched for but not found.
Sergei Polonsky, the head of the development company Mirax Group, which at that time was building the Federation, a grievance: a few years later, while recording a TV program on the channel “NTV”, he had a big fight with Lebedev, referring including a long story about the crack in the tower. The ex-Deputy, in turn, punched Polonsky in 2013 was sentenced to 150 hours of community service.
