All welds were made by certified Boilermakers. At peak, there were 120 Boilermakers at the site, working a total of 160,230 man-hours.Įach barge measures 105 feet by 305 feet and arrived one at a time from a nonunion shipyard in St.
Working for Chicago Bridge & Iron, Local 374 members began the Harrah’s project in April 2007 and completed their part in February. We are in the process of confirming with the gaming commission if licenses for expansion have been applied for, so we can pursue the work.” You know the old adage - ‘bigger is better’? Well, it’s true, with talk of other casinos now wanting to expand, using as many as eight barges for their foundations. “And there is already talk of other casino expansions on the lakefront using the same barge-type foundation. “This was a great job for Local 374,” reports L-374 BM-ST Paul Maday. Harrah’s all-new Horseshoe Casino Hammond will be triple the size of the company’s current facility, and the largest casino and entertainment destination in Chicagoland, when it is completed. MEMBERS OF LOCAL 374 (Hammond, Ind.) have completed the base for a 350,000-square-foot gaming and entertainment facility on Lake Michigan. Workers combine six barges in Lake Michigan project
