Construction of the Las Vegas High Roller Observation Wheel
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Daniel Schwarz
John Callaghan Nicola Greco Rob Smith Adrian Crowther |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2349-2356 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2014 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814068940 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Vegas High Roller is the world’s tallest observation wheel, with a maximum height above ground of 167,6m. It also is the largest, based upon passenger numbers, being able to carry 28 cabins of 40 people – 1120 in total. The paper describes the design considerations for transportation and a detailed discussion of the erection procedure. The paper should be read with the companion papers [1] and [2] |
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| Keywords: |
cable structure Arup Steel Forgings spherical roller bearings Tubular Steel Structure Observation Wheel Las Vegas American Bridge Company
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