Last week, geotechnical engineer Michael Diez de Aux contributed a special guest edition of SkyriseCities.com's 'Explainer.' While last week's feature offered a detailed introduction to the shoring process, this week's Explainer takes a step-by-step look at how shoring is constructed:

Excavation underway for Aqualina at Bayside, image by Craig White

Now that we’ve discussed what shoring is and why it might be needed, the next logical step is to ask: how does shoring get built? How do vertical walls get installed before the ground is even excavated? How do you hold up a building with such a wall? We dig deeper into shoring wall design (pun intended) in this week’s Explainer.

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