The holidays are full of cheer, joy, family, and trash. Yes, tons of trash. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans throw away 25 percent more trash during the Thanksgiving to New Year’s holiday period than any other time of year. The extra waste amounts to 2

Getting lost is a thing of the past for visitors in Nashville’s Music City Center (MCC) thanks to its new wayfinding app. “This new technology will change the way visitors experience this building,” Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said. “It’s a big building, and getting turn-by-turn d

Congratulations to two of our member venues on achieving LEED certifications! First up, the Cleveland Convention Center has been awarded LEED for Building Design and Construction (LEED-BD+C) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC). The center earned the certi

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