Venetian Macau and Marina Bay Sands

  • Two of the world’s largest casino resorts
  • Project teams spanning the globe
  • Millions of documents and correspondence items 

Client

Las Vegas Sands Corp. is the leading global developer of destination properties (integrated resorts) that feature premium accommodations, world-class gaming and entertainment, convention and exhibition facilities, celebrity chef restaurants, and many other amenities.

Projects

The US$1.8 billion Venetian Macau is the largest single structure hotel building in Asia and the third-largest building, by floor area, in the world. It includes the world’s largest casino – 600,000 square feet of gaming space – as well as 3,000 hotel suites, 850,000 square feet of retail, a 15,000-capacity arena and a 1.2 million square foot convention center.

The Marina Bay Sands integrated resort is no less impressive. Singapore’s first casino features three 50-storey hotel towers providing 2,500 rooms, 1.2 million square feet of convention space, one million square feet of retail space and three entertainment venues. The development is crowned by a one hectare Sky Park, which forms a bridge across the towers and offers 360 degree views of Singapore. 

Challenges

As well as being high value projects with tight construction schedules, casino developments often present the following challenges:
  • They can involve hundreds of organizations and consultants
  • Specialist participating firms can be located around the world
  • A very large volume of information needs to be shared efficiently between thousands of team members and stakeholders
  • Security is a primary concern
The task is made more difficult by the limitations of traditional tools for managing files and correspondence, such as paper, email and self-hosted document management systems. These tools were not created for the collaborative environment and certainly weren’t designed to cope with the complexities of a large-scale casino development.

Solution

The developers of the Venetian Macau and Marina Bay Sands selected to use the Aconex online collaboration platform to manage information and link the project team.

Tim Linton, Venetian Macau’s Director of Construction, said, “Venetian Macau wanted a system for controlling the flow of documents amongst their consultants, their construction managers and as many as 300 contractors involved on the project. Following a detailed review of our options we decided to employ Aconex for the project.”

Results

Almost 10 million documents and mail items

Construction of the Venetian Macau involved organizations that were based in China, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, the UAE, the US, Canada and the UK.
“Venetian Macau wanted a system for controlling the flow of documents.”
Tim Linton, Venetian Macau’s Director of Construction
Aconex was used by more than 3,000 team members to manage 2.7 million documents and 6.8 million project mails, resulting in 4.2 terabytes of data being stored on the system.

Project team across four continents

Marina Bay Sands involves a project team that is spread across four continents. Aconex is facilitating collaboration between more than 100 organizations, 40 of which are based outside of Singapore, including 14 in the United States.

In a single month, participants were using the system to manage up to 100,000 documents and 200,000 project mails.

On both projects, Aconex has provided face-to-face training and 24/7 support to all internal and external project participants to ensure that everyone was proficient in using the system.

Client 

Venetian Macao Ltd.

Location 

Macao,
SAR

Project Type 
Hospitality