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Moscone Center West Expansion

Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

Challenge:

The Moscone Center is San Francisco's premier meeting and exhibition facility. When a three-level expansion project began on the center, the new facility would include a primary exhibit space of 96,660 square feet at street level, with swing space of 199,432 square feet on levels two and three for either exhibit or meeting space. The swing space can be configured in as many as 38 rooms.

Solution:

This project included the integration and installation of more than 700 speakers located on all three levels of the Moscone Center. The engineering of this project also called for the installation of more than 250 amplifiers and the integration of 44 full-size equipment racks. The racks were installed into three equipment rooms, one for each floor to provide redundancy. The second- and third-floor equipment rooms are identical, while the first floor equipment room includes a RF cable TV head-end.

The successful installation of a project of this magnitude requires that all equipment racks are documented, fabricated, integrated and tested prior to shipment to the site. Working from the design documentation by Shen, Wilsom, and Wilke, engineers throughout several of our offices collaborated to diagram each equipment rack. The documentation for the racks show the component installed in every slot of all equipment racks and was completed prior to the start of fabrication. A Peavey Media Matrix control system and AMX control system were integrated so that technicians in the equipment rooms could can easily configure and control the entire audio system.

Equipment Highlights:

Peavey Media Matrix control system; AMX control system; speakers; amplifiers; equipment racks

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