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LDS Conference Center PDF Print E-mail
Owner: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Project Budget: $100 million
Services Performed: Civil Design, Field Technical Services, Member of Construction Management Team

The Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-Day Saints Conference Center is considered by many as an architectural miracle. The conference center covers most of a 10-acre block and accommodates in one sweeping auditorium 21,000 people. In addition to the main auditorium, the conference center also contains a 900-seat theater, an underground 1,400-car parking structure, and a four-acre (1.6-hectare) terraced park on the roof. The total area in the conference center is 1.2 million square feet, (108,000 square meters) with interior volume of 9.43 million cubic feet (267,000 cubic meters). Structurally the center includes 10 radial trusses, each up to 287 feet in length and weighing up to 550 tons. The king truss alone weighs 621 tons. There are a total of 116,000 cubic yards (88,700 cubic meters) of reinforced concrete in the conference center and 27,000 tons (24,300,000 kilograms) of steel, including reinforcing bar, structural steel, and miscellaneous pieces. The perimeter walls and shear walls are up to 30 inches thick. The building contains 50,000 miles of wire and 780 miles of conduit. There are 330 panels for power circuits and more than 300 panels for lighting.

Work performed included:

  • Establishment of Primary Control Network
  • Construction layout for structural steel contractor
  • Verification of critical structural elements for owner and prime contractor
  • Civil design for the central heating plant
  • Design and quality control at the Little Cottonwood Granite Quarry
 
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