Posted on 08/06/2007 8:10:26 PM PDT by paulat
Structure Collapse Reported at Fontainebleau
Aug 6, 2007 07:41 PM PDT
Three floors of the Fontainebleau construction project collapsed around 10:30 Monday morning near the Las Vegas Strip.
Firefighters from three departments rushed to the scene to help with rescues. Fortunately, all of the construction workers escaped without injury.
Eyewitnesses say they heard a noise and saw plumes of dust coming from the structure but they didn't know what had happened.
This is the second incident at the construction site in less than a week. Last Thursday, a worker was killed after he fell from a beam.
The Fontainebleau is a $2.8 billion, nearly 4,000 room hotel-casino slated to open in 2009.
Fontainebleau released the following statement:
During the course of construction this morning, a pre-cast twin tee, an isolated part of the Fontainebleau garage collapsed, causing a domino effect before stopping at a concrete slab several levels below. We are thankful to be able to report that no injuries were incurred. We have suspended all construction on and within the garage complex until a full investigation of the cause of the accident can be completed.
What is this Eastern Europe???? Middle East??? No, corruption, buying off the inspectors.
Somebody didn’t get to wet their beak?
This is Las Vegas after all.
I am so surprised that this just hit Drudge...I would have thought LVNV news would be hot.
the whole city, along with new orleans,
could collapse
as far as i’m concerned.
Could be the concrete mix.
Hmmm.... awfully close to shower time.
But cement is more expensive than sand and water.
Somebody paid off Senator Reids kids for the contracts?
...I would LOVE to know if there is a Dingy Harry connex....
“a pre-cast twin tee...collapsed”
I assume this is a steel structure of some sort. I wonder where it was made? China, perhaps?
Las Vegas is built like a giant movie set. Over the last few years a whole generation of older resorts have been imploded to make way for all this new construction. What surprises everyone whenever one of these places is blown up is how easily they collapse. They were built with substandard concrete supported by a lot fewer beams than the code calls for.
In 1980, an electrical wire sparked on the casino floor of the MGM Grand. Eighty-four people died and 785 were injured. There are a lot of stories like this waiting to happen in Vegas.
Almost certainly a pre-cast reinforced concrete structural element.
Not true. I recently watched a documentery about the company that does pretty much all those demolitions. Some of those casinos are overbuilt, with two or three times the reinforcement in the concrete as a normal buildings. Those guys make it look easy, but it takes weeks of work and exact planning and charge placement to make it happen.
Is this going to be Bush’s fault too?
Look who runs the place. We're not talking Sir Christopher Wren here.
Saving on costs without regard to safety. If they would quit stealing the money for bribes and payoffs; maybe they could get quality materials and good labour.
Bush spends billions on the Iraq war, and nothing on casinos.
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