Deseret Peak Utah Temple
Tooele, Utah
Merit Award
Presented by Oakland construction
owner Department of Special Projects, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Leading design company Architects FFKR
General Contractor Oakland construction
Road engineer CRS Engineers (Horrocks)
Structural Engineer ARW engineers
MEP engineer Health Engineering
Subcontractors Taylor Electric; Palmer Christiansen
The exterior of this three-story, 72,000-square-foot steel and concrete structure is clad in a precast stone product made from a dolomite aggregate, while the windows feature locally designed and manufactured art glass. The interiors include extensive carved stone and millwork as well as decorative painting.
Located on a 15.5-acre site, the temple’s scope of work also included a 20,000-square-meter meeting house and a 1,200-square-meter maintenance building. Although the project officially began in May 2021, permit issues prevented construction from starting until the end of August.
Shortly after construction began, the design team added a revised folding floor mitigation plan, which called for a membrane system under the entire building footprint that would collect any migrating or unwanted moisture that entered the subsoil. This delayed the underground and slab-to-grade efforts.
To mitigate these impacts, the team placed concrete for the upper floors of the temple before the flush slab. Towards the end of construction, a last-minute schedule change required a complete renovation of an already completed section of the building.
Despite these challenges, the team delivered the temple a month ahead of schedule.
