Resorts World Las Vegas
Posted on 19 August 2016
Windtech Consultants provided their wind engineering expertise to the largest Las Vegas Strip development in 10 years. The multi- billion resort, located on the Las Vegas strip, was designed by the architectural, planning and design company, Steelman Partners LLP. Once completed, the development has been tipped to revamp the Las Vegas strip and create a new center of gravity in the northern part of the world-famous Boulevard.
The China-themed resort, which is being developed by Genting Group, is expected to open in early 2019 and will include over 3,000 hotel rooms, meeting and convention space, numerous authentic Asian restaurants, over 100,000 square feet of gaming space and a 30,000-square foot lake as part of the Chinese garden. The project is expected to create over 13,000 direct and indirect jobs.
The complex structure, essentially involving three connected towers to create an elongated form in plan, required the engineers at DeSimone to generate a set of influence coefficients to enable Windtech to determine the amount of load transfer between the three substructures that interconnected to create this unusual tower form. Testing was performed both with and without the effect of the future planned tower buildings nearby. In addition, out testing program accounted for the effect of staging of the subject tower, which required different influence coefficients. For each of the three cores, the design loads were determined from the envelope of the four scenarios, which consist of two stages and two configurations of surrounds.
Windtech also undertook a study of the net design pressures acting on the façade and other lightweight cladding, also accounting for the four different scenarios.
An extensive wind environment study was also carried out, which covered both the street level and the communal recreational areas across the expansive podium.
