![]() New trusses were added to the attic space and roof last summer. ‘Working to tie the whole temple together’Ībove the foundation, crews are “working to tie the whole temple together,” Kirby said. We’ve had to scratch our head a couple times, but we figured it out. But we’re doing it as a structural component of the temple, so it’s very unique. To do this type of steel pipe insertion, you would normally do it for something like under a street where you would put a sewer line or something. “The structural engineering and construction efforts are unprecedented. The process of strengthening the foundation will continue another year and a half before crews transfer the weight of the temple onto its new base isolation system, Kirby said.īy the end of 2022, workers will excavate down to build new footings to install the new base isolators. ![]() So we’re actually hand-digging - a worker climbs into the end of the pipe and digs with a shovel, a small jackhammer, puts the soil and rock into an ore cart and sends it back out the end of the pipe. But those cobbles made it so the pipe would skip alignment. “We intended to originally bore with an auger machine and push the pipe through. “There are large cobbles and rocks in the way,” Kirby said. The process of installing large steel pipe beams underneath the temple’s historic foundation has been more difficult that originally expected, but workers have figured it out. Salt Lake Temple foundation work continues The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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