Fire protection challenges for A CITY within A CITY: The mandalay bay hotel and casino

摘要

THE MANDALAY BAY HOTEL AND CASINO is one of the largest hotels in the world. With more than 4,900 hotel rooms in a single complex, it dwarfs the major hotels in most U.S. cities. However, thinking of the property as a hotel misses the bigger part of the fire protection story. The complex includes a large casino, one of the biggest convention centers in the world, a theater, an arena, a shopping mall, and an aquarium. In early 1996, Klai Juba Architects began designing the original 43-story building, which had about 3,800 guest rooms and suites. Below the hotel tower is a low-rise podium of about 1.4 million square feet (130,060 square meters) that contains a 125,000-square-foot (9,90-square-meter) casino, a 1,800-seat show theater, a separate performance theater for the House of Blues, and a shopping and restaurant arcade. It also includes a registration desk and service areas for Mandalay Bay and The Four Seasons Hotel, both of which are in the same building but have separate entrances, as well as several restaurants, meeting rooms in The Four Seasons, and back-of-house areas.