WESTERN STATES FIRE PROTECTION - INSTALLATION OF FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS FOR THE COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION PROJECT


The Colorado Convention Center will double in size by December 2004. It's part of $268 million expansion that will give this center 600,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space. The expansion also includes a 50,000 square foot ballroom and 45 meeting rooms.

Western States Fire Protection Company is installing fire sprinkler systems for the Colorado Convention Center expansion project.

fire sprinkler systems for the Colorado Convention Center

convention center lecture hall plan
5,000 Seat Lecture Hall
 
lecture hall auditorium seating
Lecture Hall Auditorium
 
convention center ballroom
Ballroom
The project consists of approximately 1,400,000 square feet of:

  • Exhibit Hall
  • Ballrooms
  • Meeting Rooms
  • Ancillary Space

Work includes:

  • 300,000 square feet of exhibit hall space
  • 50,000 square feet ballroom
  • 20,000 square feet of additional meeting room space
  • 5,000 seat lecture hall
  • 1,000 car parking garage.

The Colorado Convention Center has a street and a light-rail commuter train that wraps around it. With over 14,000 fire sprinklers, the expansion is divided into 43 separate sprinkler systems. Of these, 25 are wet pipe and 18 are dry pipe fire sprinkler systems.

 
system control valves are located in the valve room
Valve Room
The expansion also includes 58 fire hose valve stations. The valve stations are fed from 2 – 2,000 gpm, gallons per minute fire pumps, from the existing building.

The valve room has a variety of system control valves. Such valves include; test and drain, dry pipe and wet pipe valves. The black pipes in the picture are connected to wet pipe butterfly valves and the silver pipes are connected to dry pipe valves.

 
 
fire sprinkler pipe in high ceilings
14'th Street Blade
 
convention center Speer Blvd. blade
Speer Blvd. Blade
The 14'th Street Blade is a sophisticated ceiling. It was a challenge installing fire sprinkler pipe in this ceiling because it slopes in two directions and is 100 feet above ground. It was difficult finding a lift that big and then maneuvering it in between the steel beams.
 
fire sprinkler pipe in ceilings that slope in more than one direction
Speer Blvd. Blade
 
fire sprinklers in undulating panels
Fire Sprinklers in Undulating Panels
Undulating panels are located above the street that wraps around the Colorado Convention Center. Fire sprinklers had to be installed in the high and low points of the panels so they would not interfere with each other's spray patterns.
 
fire sprinklers are located above the convention center's light rail system
Fire Sprinklers for Light Rail System
Over 2,000 dry pendant fire sprinklers are located in the ceiling above the light rail system.

Click here to see the attention to detail when comparing 3D drawings to fire sprinkler system pictures.

 
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