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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