Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Millennium Tower at 301 Mission Street in San Francisco is famously tilting and sinking into the ground. How does geology affect the design of skyscraper foundations, and what is being done to fix this structure?

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