Plan on taking a
tour of the
Georgia World Congress Center, Thursday, Oct.
2, 1-2 p.m., to learn how building managers are working to turn the building
green. Until then, here are some fun facts about Building C, the center’s
latest addition.
Building C, the Georgia World Congress
Center’s latest addition, includes the following:
- The main
lobby is more than 1,000 feet long, 80 feet wide and more than 90 feet high,
making it large enough to hold the Titanic.
- Approximately
650 miles of electrical wire.
- 5,500 tons of cooling –
enough to cool more than 1,100 average homes.
- 82,000 cubic
yards of concrete – enough to pour a sidewalk 325 miles long.
- 19
million pounds of reinforcing steel.
- 475,000 square feet of
formwork for cast-in-place concrete work, enough to cover the roofs of 265
average size homes.
- 16,000 sprinkler head – if all
activated at once, they would pour out 500,000 gallons of water per minute.
- 21.4
million pounds of structural steel – as much as 5,520 Ford Explorers – 15.5
miles of welded steel pipe.
