Spetember 20th Update

The progress of this week has been a significant effort to put in place the rebar reinforcement for the exterior walls.  If you look close in the picture towards the east and south walls or the walls to the left of the picture where the "Manlift" is you can see the rebar attached to the walls.  They are putting a significant effort into strengthening the walls so that they will hold the new roof and last for a significant time.  They have started to excavate to the east of the Nu Skin building to start to contruct the driveway to the underground parking.  Those of you that attended the Utah County multi Stake conference heard Elder Walker say that the projected Dedication date is in 2015.  To restore the building will be a long and drawn out process.

Progress Sept. 11, 2012

Here is a picture of the progress on the Temple.  They are spending a considerable amout of time adding support and structural strength to the existing exterior walls.  I have watched them lift a significant amount of rebar and put it in place as support.  They have started to excavate just to the east of the Nu Skin highrise to start to prepare for the enterance to the future underground parking structure.  Nu Skin has sped up the progress of building a new parking structure on the corner of 1st South and 2nd West so that the current parking structure to the south of our building and west of the Temple can be demoalished to allow for the underground parking. Currently the annex between the parking and our building has been removed.  I will keep you posted as I see any major developments.

Removing the Final Tower Roof

Today I noticed that the crane was moving near the final tower and so I was not going to miss them removing the last of the 4 tower roofs.  It took about 30 minutes for them to hook everything up and start to lift the roof but I did not miss this one.  See the Video below

The video had to be down sized to be able to upload it so it does not capture the whole removal and setting it on the ground to the east with the other three tower roofs. 

Here is a picture of the building now with all towers removed and they are starting to build structural supports inside.

Removing the Tower Caps

I mentioned in my last post that they had brought in a large crane and were doing work on the upper exterior walls.  I noticed the other day that workers were up inside the towers and that they were cutting holes in the roof and I could see that they were placing I-beam struts in a cross position in the roofs of the towers and eventually would hook the crane to the beams and lift the roofs off of the towers and place them on the ground.  I wish that I had been paying closer attention and actually watched them lift them off but missed that, (I guess I do have to work while sitting in my office.)  Today they are hauling out the old brick that was removed from the interior as you can see the trucks in the lower corner of the picture.

The 2 east towers have had the roofs removed.

You can see the two tower roofs sitting on the ground in the middle of the picture, one is behind the tree.  Sorry the large white item in the lower left is a reflection off the window of papers in my office.

Bringing in the heavy artillery!

The last couple of days the construction company assembled a large crane across the street to the south of the Temple and today drove it across the street and around the building into position north of the Temple project to start moving heavy material in and out of the building. 

The crane stands a good 10 stories tall as it is as tall as our building.  The work of dismantling an interior wall continues and the brick is being moved outside the building and the good bricks are being stacked on pallets for future use.  It appears to me that they are removing any damaged portion of the exterior walls and will start to reinforce the walls and move forward with the interior excavation, but what I do know I am an accountant!  Hopefully the crane stays on their side of the fence or my office could be easily rearranged.

Work on the brick walls has started

As I stated in my last post that they were starting to haul scaffling into the empty Tabernacle shell and I have noticed lately that it appears that they are starting to remove damaged bricks from the walls and are hauling them out into the yard.  It also looks like they have been working at cleaning out more of the debry in the interrior of the building.  I believe that this is going to be a long slow process of restoration.

You can see the workers on the near corner working on the top of the exposed walls.

The pile of bricks and other material removed from the interrior.

June Update

I have been out of the country and also there has not been a lot of activity at the new Temple lot.  I thought that I would give a little update so that you did not think I had gone away.  Over the last couple of weeks they came in and put up a new fence around the property, removed all of the trees that lined University Avenue and 1st South.  They also removed a couple of the older trees that were to the north.  I noticed that they have started to move in and out of the interrior more often and today with a Bobcat were hauling gravel inside.  There has been a load of scaffling that is now stacked to the north of the building (may be hidden in the shadow in the picture below) also today 1st south was closed to public access.  Maybe we will start to see more activity.