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Insults fly, and Hamburger insists the sinking Millennium Tower is 'stable and safe'

2021-10-09 00:00:00

I am enjoying the sideshow dramatics in San Francisco's not-so-slow-moving trainwreck. It would appear an independent geo-tech had some fun comments for SF Gate, basically blasting Ron Hamburger for incompetence.

SF Gate:

Geotechnical engineer Robert Pyke told the outlet this week that the work should have been stopped months earlier. "Certainly by the end of June, it was obvious that there was additional settlement as a result of installing the casings and the piles," Pyke noted. "Any responsible engineer should have called a halt," he added, stating that he believes the continuation of construction for two more months caused more damage.

Pyke's criticism was leveled at Chief Engineer Ronald Hamburger, who pushed back in an email to SFGATE Thursday, stating that he became concerned with the increased settlement in early June. However, Hamburger wrote that he believed "additional settlement through completion of casing installation would not be a problem."

As he will not prove wrong until the thing falls down, Ronald Hamberger offered up an incredible, head-spinning opinion on the whole tower: it is just fine, all this work is basically marketing to increase the property value and appease the HOA.
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