MGM Resorts is committed to sustainability, and its new 6.4 megawatt photovoltaic array covers approximately 20 acres on top of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. That makes it the world’s largest rooftop solar array on a convention center. But the company isn’t stopping

Erin Rowland, the sustainability coordinator with the Oregon Convention Center (OCC), prepared a sustainability report for VenueConnect 2014 and recently shared the results with IAVM headquarters. Some of the interesting findings include that for each day of the event the average atte

The Miami Herald reports that the Miami City Commission has approved plans for a downtown convention center and a 1,800-room hotel on the site of the old Miami Arena. “The commission’s approval of MDM Development’s $600 million Marriott Marquis Miami World Center clears an impor

Congratulations to the Anaheim Convention Center. The venue recently completed a 2.4-megawatt install solar panel system, covering 300,000 square feet on the rooftop of exhibit halls A, B, and C. The $5.7 million project features 7,908 solar panels, making it the largest city-owned, c

We love to mention when our members are in the news, and since the 2014 International Convention Center Conference begins tomorrow, this is the perfect time to point out a great article in the October issue of Convene that focuses on convention centers. “When a convention center