Casino Nova Scotia

Casino Nova Scotia
Casino Nova Scotia;
	Sheraton Halifax Casino"
Renovated in	April 24, 2000, June 1, 2006
Coordinates	44°39′10.9″N 63°34′33.1″W / 44.653028°N 63.575861°W
Website	www.casinonovascotia.com

Casino Nova Scotia is located in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has locations in Halifax and Sydney. Steelman Partners designed Casino Nova Scotia and its sister casino Sydney Casino.

Halifax casino

The

labour union.^[2]

The casino has 650 slots and table games. There is an attached 550-car

parkade

, including 14 wheelchair-accessible spaces.

The casino is connected via pedway to the Marriott Halifax Harbourfront, formerly the Casino Nova Scotia Hotel and Sheraton Hotel Halifax. The pedway also connects to Purdy's Wharf, Scotia Square, and the downtown core.

Restaurants and lounges

There are several drinking and dining facilities in the casino, including nightly buffets and Sunday Brunch buffet in the 3Sixty Buffet Restaurant, casual dining and live entertainment in the 3Sixty Lounge, and concerts, conventions and other attractions in the Compass Room and the Schooner room.

Structural engineering

Engineered by BMR of Halifax, the casino has been described as one of the most complicated in the company's history. The size of the site meant that part of the building was built over water 70 feet deep (at its deepest point). Most of the land that the casino occupies had been created years earlier when that part of

foundation. BMR overcame the problem by engineering a design which incorporated driving caissons through the fill material and into the bedrock below. Then, using a specially designed doughnut-shaped pile cap as a support system, the engineers worked with the form work contractor to hang the casino's floor structure on the supporting caissons like a huge wharf.^[3]

Sydney casino

Casino Nova Scotia added a sister casino in Sydney on August 1, 1995. The casino, located on George St. in downtown Sydney, was constructed as an addition to the city's Centre 200.

References

^ Casino Nova Scotia Hotel has been renamed as the Halifax Marriott Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland May 12, 2006
^ Majority of Casino Nova Scotia workers in Halifax vote to unionize Melanie Patten, The Canadian Press, 10-09-07
^ BMR Structural Engineering Archived August 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

External links

Official Website of Casino Nova Scotia

[1] Casino Nova Scotia Hotel has been renamed as the Halifax Marriott Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland May 12, 2006

[2] Majority of Casino Nova Scotia workers in Halifax vote to unionize Melanie Patten, The Canadian Press, 10-09-07

[3] BMR Structural Engineering Archived August 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

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