The story of the Millennium Tower is a fascinating case study in geotechnical engineering.

千年塔的故事是岩土工程领域一个引人入胜的案例研究。

Soils are kind of weird but don't  tell that to geotechnical engineers.

土壤有点奇怪，但不要告诉岩土工程。

All these factors added up to a lot more settlement than was initially anticipated by the project's geotechnical engineers.

所有这些因素加起来导致的沉降量比该项目岩土工程预期的要多得多。

Edenville Dam was built in the 1920s before most  of our current understanding of geotechnical engineering and modern dam safety standards  existed.

伊登维尔大坝建于 20 年代，当时我们对岩土工程和现代大坝安全标准的大部分了解还没有出现。

When the building was designed, the project geotechnical engineers predicted that it would settle 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) over the structure's entire lifetime, mainly from this layer of Old Bay Clay below the bottom of the piles.

在设计该建筑时， 项目岩土工程预测， 在该建筑的整个使用寿命期间， 它会沉降 4 至 6 英寸（10 至 15 厘米），主要来自桩底部下方的这层老湾粘土。