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Progressive AE

Challenge: Provide a convention and exhibit facility that increases the ability of the Grand Center to attract new and larger groups, maintain the current growing businesses, and more readily serve multiple events. -1.037.905 square foot, state-of-the-art convention and exhibition facility that will meet the needs of major users, now and into the future - Function spaces are enlarged and reorganized to increase convenience and ease of use for both the public and the exhibitor - Major components of the expansion and renovation include 150,000 square feet of column free exhibit space, a 40,000 square foot sub divisible ballroom, 35,000 square feet of flexible meeting rooms, and a parking garage - A Grand Gallery will link the Grand River through the convention center to a main downtown plaza - each end will be a front door

Acoustics By Design

Once completed, this state of the art facility had a troublesome transformer noise and vibration issue that left many of the conference rooms unusable. Acoustics By Design's engineers were called in to troubleshoot the issue to identify the root cause of the difficult problem. We completed detailed noise measurements on a series of similarly sized transformers here and at other facilities for comparison. It was determined that the brand new transformers were defective and required replacement. The new transformer cores were significantly quieter and vibration free. Architect's Challenge: Provide a convention and exhibit facility that increases the ability of the Grand Center to attract new and larger groups, maintain the current growing businesses, and more readily serve multiple events. -1.037.905 square foot, state-of-the-art convention and exhibition facility that will meet the needs of major users, now and into the future - Function spaces are enlarged and reorganized to increase convenience and ease of use for both the public and the exhibitor - Major components of the expansion and renovation include 150,000 square feet of column free exhibit space, a 40,000 square foot sub divisible ballroom, 35,000 square feet of flexible meeting rooms, and a parking garage - A Grand Gallery will link the Grand River through the convention center to a main downtown plaza - each end will be a front door

Feyen Zylstra, LLC

DeVos Place Convention Center is the largest single-site project in the history of Grand Rapids, the DeVos Place Convention Center is over one million square feet, including a 40,000 square foot ballroom with seating capacity of 4,000 for dinner. The main exhibition hall is large enough to hold three football fields. Feyen Zylstra partnered with two other area contractors to complete this project. The team worked closely with Progressive AE for design recommendations, budgeting and value engineering. A tight site and schedule with an absolute completion deadline are just a few of the challenges faced. Extensive pre-planning was required to meet these challenges.

Burgess Concrete Construction

Burgess Concrete Construction, Inc. was contracted to pour the site concrete surrounding the DeVos Place Convention Center.  This included pouring all the sidewalks and patio's surrounding the convention center with 3' x 3' decorative joints.