PHOTOGRAPHY Andrea Shapiro Jamie Thom Garrick Barnard Filmater Sun International
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• The steel sheeted roof structures cover a total of 13,760m 2 roof with a clear spanning steel sheeted Arena roof of 7,000m 2 and an internal diameter of 93.5m and covers over 10,000m 2. The total weight of the structural steel used in the roof and support structures of the casino, hotel, globe bar, events arena and entrance feature globe equals 1,822 tons.
• The main Events arena will have a total events loading capacity of 90 tons over arena floor and 60 tons over the staging area.
• During the superstructure construction, an average of 300m 3 of concrete was cast every day, with a truckload every 12 minutes. On one particular day in July 2016, a South African record was set for the longest continuous pour of concrete – 1,550m 3 over a period of 18 hours poured from a total of 260 cement truckloads.
• Once the wet works are complete, the complex will have used a total volume of 106,983m 3 of concrete, enough to cover approximately 125 % of the surface of the Kimberley Big Hole to a depth of 0.5m. 169,641m 2 of internal and external plaster for the complex is enough to cover 254 tennis courts.
• Laid out top-to-toe, the 7.5-million bricks being used in construction would cover more than the distance between Johannesburg and Cape Town. The complex, when complete, will also include 7,678m 2 of carpeting and 58,554m 2 of tiling.
• 18,062m 2 of glass façades used on completion of the complex – equivalent to more than two rugby fields.
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