The construction industry could be about to begin a winning streak. When Canada deregulated its gambling laws in 1997, gaming operators were falling over each other to build new casinos in a mad dash for cash. "The profits are staggering; they make $1m a night," says Heather Stanley, the UK director of Canadian structural engineer Yolles, which built six large casinos in Toronto on the back of this boom. "We called it flash track, rather than fast track, as it happened so damned quickly," she says. "We were designing it while it was being built. We had two teams working on these projects: the first ordered the steel and got the tender out, the second worked out the detail design."
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