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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by capkutay on Monday August 01, 2016 @11:46PM (#12207732)
Maybe I have a poor definition of 'point of refusal', but this is the term developers use. Most developers in SF don't tell you whether they drilled down to bedrock or not.
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Re:Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking by duaneb on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:46AM (#12208779)
It's a real term. This is not how the pile depth is decided but a maximum depth.
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