While Temple Square has started to reopening to the public, most visitors are wondering what is happening with the Salt Lake Temple renovation. At the Conference Center, the roof gardens provide a good view of the renovation project.
The lagging is used to prevent cave-ins and helps contain the soil pressure from surrounding areas as crews begin deeper excavation in preparation to create three lower levels of the Salt Lake temple. The floors will include temple maintenance facilities, two baptistries,sealing rooms, and many more.
The secant walls and buttresses hold the foundation of the temple in place in preparation for jack and bore drilling under the temple. This process will begin in August of this year to prepare for the new foundation that will cover the existing foundation of the temple.
On the Church Office Building plaza, workers remove destroyed concrete on the surface of the existing slab to a depth of around 1.5 inches or 4 centimeters.
Announced in this month, the North Visitors’ Center has been decommissioned. All art, artifacts and exhibits have been taken out of the building. The “Christus” statue was cautiously boxed and removed by a crane last week. It will be placed in storage and will eventually return to Temple Square at the end of the renovation process.
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