Builder: Melco Crown Entertainment
Managing Contractor: Leighton-China State-John Holland Joint Venture
Project Value: 2.1 Billion USD
Start Date: Early 2007
Opening Date: 1st June 2009
On the 1st of June 2009, the City of Dreams became a reality. Mr. Lawrence Ho, Co-Chairman and CEO of Melco Crown Entertainment and Mr. Greg Hawkins, President of City of Dreams officiated at the press conference. "This morning we stand ready to deliver on our promise to offer visitors to Macau the 'next generation of urban leisure experiences," said Lawrence Ho. City of Dreams heralds a new chapter in Macau's ongoing development as Asia's premier leisure and entertainment destination.
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The opening of the $2.1 billion (USD) City of Dreams features a 420,000-square-foot casino, and a diverse array of accommodation consisting of the Crown Towers and the exciting music-inspired Hard Rock Hotel, with its unique combination of electrifying music themes and memorabilia. Over 20 restaurants and bars, an impressive array of some of the world's most sought-after retail brands within The Boulevard, a unique lifestyle precinct operated by leading travel retailer DFS, and the iconic and spectacular audio visual multimedia extravaganza, Dragon's Treasure, featured in a dome-shaped theater known as The Bubble, completes the line-up.
Rondo stands proud being the site-wide supplier for drywalls throughout all the prestigious names mentioned above. The Rondo Malaysia team has worked very hard to service this project by arranging and loading 35 containers a month, replying to dozens of technical inquiries a week and running the factory 24 hours a day to ensure that they have the coils to keep the machines running.
Rondo supplied acoustic partition systems in the Dream-like Sensation, Rock Star Suites, Live Venue, and Dragone Show Theatre, Rondo QUIET STUD® in the Hard Rock Hotel Rooms, huge ellipse feature ceiling in the Casino main entrance, fire-rated walls in both Podium L01 & L02, non-fire rated walls in the Retail Street, external ceiling exposed to high wind load in the Porte Cochere and Walkabout Ceilings in various areas.
