Reliant Center - The Facility

The Facility

The convention floor runs over 0.25 miles (400 m) in length, while total building size is 1,532 feet (467 m) long and 590 feet (180 m) wide, with a total area of 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m2). The facility features over 706,000 square feet (65,600 m2) of contiguous single-level exhibition space, which is divisible into 11 separate halls, ranging in size from 40,000 to 168,000 square feet (3,700 to 15,600 m2).

The 61 meeting rooms are configurable into over 100 variations, and the two largest meeting rooms are 17,000 and 22,000 square feet (1,600 and 2,000 m2). Each meeting room has its own dedicated sound, lighting and networking capabilities.

There are also 118 loading bays, a 280,000-square-foot (26,000 m2) marshalling area with over 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) for shuttle transportation, and over 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) of registration space. The facility the technological infrastructure capable of providing high-speed internet access, pre-wired fiber optic cabling backbone, on-site production facilities, 120 television monitors, as well as web-casting abilities.