To save the shell, engineers suspended 7 million pounds of brick on stilts while excavating 40 feet below.
A dramatic mid-construction photo of the Provo City Center Temple project. The original 19th-century brick walls are held up by a complex steel shoring system (stilts) while heavy machinery and excavators work in the massive pit below to create space for the new foundation.
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