Las Vegas and hotels are words that go hand in hand. It is the city of the world’s most famous hotels. In a sea of neon and glamour the historic Aladdin hotel, where Elvis and Priscilla were wed, was imploded in 1998. A marquee read “Aladdin will rise again in the year 2000.”

The new Aladdin hotel and resort rises from the ground with structural steel casting shadows along Las Vegas Boulevard. Soon the site will play host to an all-new 2,600-room hotel, a 100,000 square foot casino and 150,000 square feet of restaurant area in five merchandising and design zones. These facilities surround an existing 7,000-seat performing arts theater. The resort will bring to life the romance of a desert adventure with future expansion of a 1,000-room music theme hotel/casino.

ACCO brought its extensive design/build experience to the project team. Comfort to the mall will be provided by 18 roof-top chilled-water air handling units, four built-up fan rooms, and 3,000 tons of chilled water fed from a main central plant. The most challenging task of this project has been locating supply, return, and exhaust grilles so that they are invisible to the patrons.

Unique to this mall is the interior desert/Arabian theme façade architecture. The next time you travel to the land of neon lights you can say that ACCO helped Aladdin rise again by spring of year 2000.

Project Data

• 19 Air Handling Units
• 500,000 CFM Single Control

Project Team

• Owner - Trizec Hahn
• Architect - RTKL
• Engineer - ACCO Engineered Systems
• General Contractor - Whiting Turner Contracting