Millennium Tower

Crews began to bore new test holes around the base of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower on Friday as part of a city-mandated effort to investigate what went wrong with the intended fix for the tilting structure. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Crews began to bore new test holes around the base of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower on Friday as part of a city-mandated effort to investigate what went wrong with the intended fix for the tilting structure. The city also wants to prevent the problem from getting worse when the troubled $100 million project resumes.

The head of San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection asked Millennium Tower officials Friday to hold off on doing more work on the so-called fix to the sinking problem until experts agree on ways to prevent more unexpected sinking and tilting of the structure.

The head of San Francisco’s building inspection department on Friday requested Millennium Tower officials hit the brakes on the troubled fix to the luxury high rise and its sinking and tilting problem. Raj Mathai talks to Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken on his development.

The head of San Francisco’s building inspection department on Friday requested Millennium Tower officials hit the brakes on the troubled fix to the luxury high rise and its sinking and tilting problem. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken has the details.

Millennium Tower officials are assuring residents that work on the troubled “fix” for the leaning high-rise will restart soon, after project engineers refine construction methods so as to prevent future accelerated sinking and tilting of the luxury high-rise.

The troubled fix for San Francisco’s leaning Millennium Tower is close to restarting, according to the homeowner’s association. This after contractors put the project on hold when they learned it was doing more harm than good. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

San Francisco city Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Tuesday called for a hearing into what led the Millennium Tower to tilt and sink “alarmingly” further since construction started on what had been billed as a permanent fix for the long troubled building.

San Francisco city Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Tuesday called for a hearing into what led the Millennium Tower to tilt and sink “alarmingly” further since construction started on what had been billed as a permanent fix for the long troubled building.

The Millennium Tower is sinking at a faster rate than the limit that had been set by engineers working on the fix for the troubled building, an analysis of monitoring data shows.

Even as they attempted to fix the sinking and tilting of the San Francisco Millennium Tower, the problem is getting worse. NBC Bay Area Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Deberken explains experts now believe the building is doing the opposite of what they predicted it would do when they started the fix.

Designers of the troubled Millennium Tower fix recently blamed the newly accelerated sinking on crews drilling “slightly larger” holes to install steel encased piles down to bedrock, documents show. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Designers of the troubled Millennium Tower fix recently blamed the newly accelerated sinking on crews drilling “slightly larger” holes to install steel encased piles down to bedrock, documents show.

Two local engineers warned in a report to San Francisco officials back in 2019 that a proposed foundation retrofit for the Millennium Tower would make the troubled building tilt even more.

Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reported two nights ago that the construction project designed to keep the Millennium Tower from leaning any further is actually making things worse. On Thursday, he spoke with two engineers who predicted this would happen two years ago, but no one listened.

Newly disclosed documents obtained by NBC Bay Area show the leaning Millennium Tower sank and tilted dramatically even after engineers stopped work they suspected was destabilizing the foundation.

For years, NBC Bay Area has been on the forefront of the problems plaguing San Francisco’s Millennium Tower. Newly-released documents revealed the high-priced tower continued to sink in recent weeks. Raj Mathai speaks with Jaxon Van Derbeken on the new development.

There are more problems with San Francisco’s upscale, and troubled, Millennium Tower. The construction project designed to stabilize the sinking and leaning high rise suddenly stopped this week. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken, who has been following the saga since the start, has more.

Work on the $100 million fix of the Millennium tower has halted as engineers scramble to figure out why the building has suddenly sunk an inch in a matter of weeks since construction began, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.

There’s new, big trouble with San Francisco’s infamous Millenium Tower. The “big fix” that’s supposed to save the leaning highrise is causing it to sink even further — and all work was just halted. NBC Bay Area Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken has the story.