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The Marina Bay Sands Hotel project in Singapore is considered the biggest construction work in the 40 year history of Korean builders’ overseas construction projects. Ssangyong Engineering and Construction won the project, which entails the construction of three 57-story(with Sky Park) towers with 2,561 hotel rooms for $686 million in September 2007. The prime feature of the project is the erection of three towers in the form of three interlinked cones. The east buildings, which are slanted by up to 52 degrees, are linked to the west buildings at the 23rd-story level. The angle of the slant is 10 times that of the slant of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.

In order to build the slanted building without complicated external buttresses, Ssangyong used a Post-Tension method, a new construction technique.

In this method, a high tension wire is installed on the supporting walls, measuring 600 mm in thickness, to support the buildings. Also, numerous sensors are installed on frames of the towers to check distortions that could emerge in the course of construction, which constitutes a state-of-of-the art technology. The hotel is scheduled to be completed in early 2010.

Ssangyong Engineering and Construction once ranked second in the field of hotel construction, as it has built hotels with a combined total of more than 12,000 rooms, including two of the three largest hotels in Dubai.