Salt Lake Temple Construction: Retaining Wall

This retaining wall is made up of rows of interlocking concrete and steel columns with buttresses, each 85 feet deep. The wall shores up the soil and temple so that the excavation of the three-level underground north addition can proceed. Beams attached to the wall, called walers, help keep the soil in place by fastening long tension cables deep into the earth with grout. The photo was taken in August 2021.