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Engineering a Casino Floor: Long Spans and Heavy Loads

Steel beams during construction

Of all the buildings we engineer, few are as demanding as a casino. The floor has to feel open and uninterrupted, run around the clock, and carry heavy, concentrated loads — all at once.

The Column-Free Problem

Players and operators both want an unbroken floor, which means spanning long distances without the columns a normal building would lean on. We design the transfer girders, trusses, and post-tensioned slabs that make those clear spans possible while keeping deflection and vibration below what anyone would notice.

Loads That Never Sleep

Dense rows of machines, vaults, back-of-house equipment, and twenty-four-hour foot traffic add up to loads that are both heavy and constant. We size the structure for the sustained, real-world demand — the same load-path discipline behind our structural assessments, scaled up.

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