Fire Sprinkler Systems for Colorado Convention Center

Colorado Convention Center Expansion - Fire Sprinkler Systems

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.

Colorado Convention Center Lecture Hall Plan

5,000 Seat Lecture Hall

Lecture Hall Auditorium

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.

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 ceilings that slope in more than one direction.

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.

14'th Street Blade

Speer Blvd. Blade

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.