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Fire protection engineers must work with various egress strategies in each of the CityCenter towers. The city-in-a-city includes residential and commercial space, both of which require specialized egress options. ater, and parking garage also qualify as high-rise buildings. The gaming area is in excess of 100,000 sq ft. The mall area is approximately 500,000 sq ft. One-half of the site is interconnected with an underground parking garage that Center. The fire alarm system includes looped fire alarm control panels. Not only do the sprinkler systems include the required primary and secondary water supplies and pumping systems, redundancy is provided if these primary and secondary Based on code-required occupant load factors, Project CityCenter can accommodate more than 200,000 people. includes a bus loading/unloading/parking area and two loading docks, which can each accommodate several 18-wheeled semis. There are swimming pools located on roofs at various locations of the site and even an automated people mover that interconnects CityCenter with the neighboring facilities to the north and south (Bellagio and Monte Carlo, respectively). Back-of-house areas include all support services needed to keep this city fully operational. The fire protection aspects include the familiar and the unexpected as described in the introductory portion of this article. In addition to those aspects, substantial redundancy is provided for Project City– systems cannot fulfill their intended function. In addition, redundant generators are at various locations throughout the site to provide secondary power if needed. One of the most unusual redundancies is the presence of two FCCs. Although one is used as the primary on-site proprietary monitoring location, both FCCs provide identical functions. All fire protection systems can be monitored and controlled from either location with the primary location taking priority. The site even includes its own fire station, provided by MGM/Mirage and staffed by Clark County. The fire station is not dedicated only to CityCenter. It also allows reduced response time to the Las Vegas strip and general vicinity. No Problem… Consulting-Specifying Engineer • OCTOBER 2008 31 Input #220 at csemag.com/quickResponse http://www.csemag.com/quickResponse

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