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Revel piles up foundation supports for $2 billion casino

"Revel Entertainment Group needs to install a whopping 7,758 piles to support the massive foundation of its proposed $2 billion casino. If Revel had used the traditional pile-driving method, it might have seemed like a nonstop earthquake shaking the surrounding homes and neighboring Showboat Casino Hotel.

"...At Revel's site, an auger cast pile is created by boring into the ground as deep as 100 feet using a large drilling rig. Concrete is then pumped into the hollow shaft to form the pile, which is reinforced with steel mesh known as rebar.

"Besides being much quieter than slamming steel piles into the ground, this technique is cheaper and saves construction time, Andersen and Fricke said.

"...Revel started building its oceanfront casino Nov. 20. Since then, the formerly barren 20-acre site has been overrun by drilling rigs, support cranes and an army of 300 unionized construction workers. The company had to scour the country in search of construction machinery, with some of the equipment coming from as far away as Kansas.

"...But before Revel's colossus rises from the mud and sand, work continues on the piles and foundation. Come March, construction is expected to begin on the steel superstructure for the casino and hotel towers..."

copyrighted material written for and appeared exclusively in The Press of Atlantic City

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