Client: Caesars Indiana
Project: Caesar's Indiana Riverboat Casino
Location: Elizabeth, Indiana
Description: Ter Horst, Lamson & Fisk, Inc. provided building design services and structural engineering services on this riverboat casino facility for Caesars near Louisville, Kentucky.

The Caesars Indiana Riverboat Casino complex is located on the Ohio River in Elizabeth, Indiana and includes the Shoreside Pavilion Building, a four level parking garage, the Glory of Rome, which is the world's largest riverboat casino, several support buildings and extensive site improvements. TLF provided engineering design services to the design-build construction contractor for the Shoreside Pavilion Building, the parking garage, an elevated pedestrian connector between the garage and the pavilion building, and the maintenance building. [ MORE DETAILS ]

Shoreside Pavilion Building:

• 3 level structure, with the supported levels designed as composite concrete and structural steel framing with over 200,000 s.f. of floor space utilized for restaurants, offices, retail shops, and support functions.
• TLF performed value-engineering studies on the original design to develop a more efficient structural framing system resulting in a significant cost savings for the project.
• Final construction cost for this building was $56 million.
• Fast-tracked "phased construction" project with initial design starting on July 21, 1998, steel erection starting on September 14, 1998 and Phase I occupied November 1, 1998. The remaining phases were completed by February 2000.

Parking Garage:

• Parking structure consists of over 500,000 s.f. of parking on four levels. The garage was designed as a precast concrete structure utilizing precast T-beams and girders.
• TLF was responsible for the foundation design, the slab design and the design of the support framing for the mechanical rooms.
• Fast-tracked "phased construction" project that started in April of 1998 and was operational in November of 1998.

Pedestrian Connector:

• Pedestrian connector is a 465-foot-long by 30-foot-wide elevated walkway connecting the parking garage with the Pavilion building.
• TLF provided building design and structural engineering design services.
• The pedestrian connector has over 400 feet of double moving walkways and a dual level floor system to accommodate the walkway systems.
• Structural frame is composed of heavy steel box trusses, with spans up to 100 feet, and is seismically independent from both adjacent structures by use of a cantilevered end truss design.
• In addition to the loading criteria required by the moving walkways, the structure was analyzed and designed for strict vibration requirements imposed by the Owner.
• Construction cost for the pedestrian connector was $1.75 million.