Las Vegas Convention Center Expansion Reaches Milestone with Concrete Pour in New Exhibit Hall

Construction workers, on behalf of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, commenced the extensive process of pouring 600,000 square feet of concrete flooring in the main exhibit hall—located on a brownfield site once used as a parking lot—in the new West Hall expansion of Nevada’s Las Vegas Convention Center.

The facility includes a three-story building with a 150-foot exterior canopy. The interior showcases a 150-foot-high atrium lobby, 75 meeting rooms, 210,000 square feet of concourse pre-function space and outdoor terrace space, along with a food court, kitchens and 240,000 square feet of support spaces. The concrete pour will take between four and five months to complete and is a major step forward in the expansion project, which is now 77% complete.

The Las Vegas Convention Center’s $980-million West Hall expansion will add 1.4 million square feet of space to the existing 3.2-million-square foot-campus. In addition to the exhibit hall, the expansion will feature an outdoor plaza and atrium. Completion is slated in December 2020.

Facts & figures

• 75 million pounds of concrete used to fill the exhibit hall floor, which will require approximately 1,800 trips by fully loaded concrete trucks
• Exhibit hall floor is a 10-inch reinforced concrete slab, capable of supporting the LVCVA’s largest trade show exhibits
• Concrete pour will take 4-5 months to complete
• Exhibit floor includes plumbing, electrical and data infrastructure so exhibitors can connect without the use of on-ground wiring
• 2,173,337: hours of work crews have logged since construction began in 2018
• 4 million: square feet of space the LVCC expansion will add to the existing 3.2 million square feet of space at the LVCC
• 333: number of volleyball courts the 600,000-square-foot expansion hall could accommodate
• 328,000: square feet of space in the new exhibit hall that will be column-free; the largest column-free space in North America

For time lapse footage of the concrete pour and the latest pictures of the expansion, click here. click here

Miller Project Management, LLC is managing the project as the LVCVA’s owner representative. As part of a joint venture, Turner is providing preconstruction and construction services.

Photo source: www.turnerconstruction.com.