Building Specifications
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Facilities
Main Arena seating capacities:
- Concerts: 8,100
- Basketball and other sporting events: 7,500
- Theatrical enclosure: 2,500
- Lecture enclosure (1): 1,500
- Lecture enclosure (2): 500
Ground Level:
- Main arena
- Administrative offices
- Main ticket offices
- Security office
- Hospitality suite/meeting room(s)
- Five (5) dressing rooms
- Six (6) team locker rooms
- Auxiliary gym
- Five (5) racquetball courts
- Training/first-aid room
- Kitchen
- Load-in access
Concourse Level:
- Four (4) main public entrances/exits
- Two (2) auxiliary ticket booths
- Four (4) concession stands
- First aid room
- Two (2) women's rest rooms
- Two (2) men's rest rooms
- Sound/lighting control platform
- Eight (8) spotlight/camera platforms
- Box office with regional outlets
- Ushers and ticket takers
- Security/police
- First aid
- Stagehands and riggers
- Meeting and conference planning
- Advertising
- Catering
- Lighting and sound design/engineering
Building Specifications & Dimensions
- Overall building dimensions: 385 feet by 290 feet
- Interior square footage: 205,000 square feet
- Overall arena dimensions: 288 feet by 248 feet
- Arena floor dimensions:
- Without telescopic seating platforms 112 feet by 154 feet (17,248 square feet)
- With telescopic seating platforms 80 feet by 120 feet (9,600 square feet)
- Theatrical enclosure:
- Stage size: 60 feet by 40 feet
- Proscenium opening: 20 feet by 60 feet
- Lecture enclosure:
- Stage size: 24 feet by 12 feet
- Hospitality suite: 2,600 square feet
- Auxiliary gym (floor covered): 8,500 square feet
- Press room/production office: 500 square feet
- Equipped with three (3) phone/fax lines
- Star dressing room: 150 square feet
- Separate rest room/shower, one (1) shower, one (1) toilet, mirror, carpeting, cable hookup
- Dressing room #1: 200 square feet
- Two (2) showers, two (2) toilets, mirrors
- Dressing room #2: 200 square feet
- Two (2) showers, two (2) toilets, mirrors
- Male chorus dressing room: 800 square feet
- Gang shower, two (2) toilets, mirrors
- Female chorus dressing room: 800 square feet
- Gang shower, two (2) toilets, mirrors
Telephones
Local and long-distance access is available through Verizon. A backstage payphone is located in the truck tunnel.
- SICO brand, 90 sections at 4 feet by 8 feet, height is 4 feet
- Fold and roll, eight (8) pieces at 6 feet by 8 feet, height is 16 inches or 24 inches, carpeted
- Black skirting is available for all staging; gold is available for SICO stage
Rigging (see attached drawings for specifics)
- Height to low steel: 42 feet
- Height to high steel: 66 feet
- Permanent lines (winch-driven) Note: All distances from plaster line
- Two (2) lecture enclosure dividers (gold): 41 feet, 0 inches
- FOH truss: 31 feet, 0 inches
- Performance speaker cluster: 4 feet, 10 inches
- One (1) proscenium: +0 feet, 0 inches
- First electric: +2 feet, 8 inches
- Second electric (includes black masking): +12 feet, 2 inches
- Scoreboard: +19 feet, 6 inches
- Upstage backdrop: +35 feet, 7 inches
- Two (2) side masking pipes: +35 feet, 5 inches from center line
- One (1) main speaker cluster: +49 feet, 7 inches
- One (1) "dead hung" mechanical flag: +65 feet, 6 inches
- End of arena backdrop (black or gold): +84 feet, 0 inches
- Grid (starts at plaster line): 29 feet deep by 60 inches wide
- Steel, some I-beam, H-beam
- Catwalk (can be rigged from)
- For concerts: Flag and main speak cluster can be obstructions to rigging.
- 16 pieces at 5 feet by 8 feet
- 27 "bicycle" barricades at 3 feet by 8 feet
- Acoustically engineered, BI-amplified system with 36,000 watt output
- Allen & Heath iLive T80 36 input digital sound console
- QSC Q-Sys Digital Processing
- One (1) permanent speaker cluter - JBL PD5212/64 and JBL PD5212/95
- Two (2) flown JBL Ver Tec VT4887A line arrays (7 cabinets per array)
- Two (2) JBL AM7212 downfill speakers
- Four (4) JBL ASB6128 dual 18" subwoofers (permanently flown above grid)
- All speakers powered by QSC CX302, CX702, CX1102, CX204V amplifiers
- Two (2) JBL VRX 928LA line arrays with JBL VRX 915S sub woofers at East end of arena for small theatrical enclosure
- QSC K12 1000watt powered portable speakers
- QSC KW181 1000watt powered portable subwoofers
- Shure ULX wireless microphones
- Countryman headworn wireless microphones
- Audio-Technica AT8004 Desk microphone
- Audio-Technica Pro 8Hex headworn microphone
- Shure wired microphones (SM58, SM57)
- Electro Voice microphones (DS-35, RE-10, RE-11)
- Various microphone and speaker cable, adapters
- Williams Sound assistive listening system
Lighting:
- Dimmer per circuit
- 78 Electro Controls Dimmers at 2.4 kw
- Six (6) Electro Controls Dimmers at 5 kw
- 24 channel, two-scene preset light board with patching capabilities
- Two (2) permanent electrics with 25 circuits (some are repeat circuits)
- One (1) Semi permanent 40-truss section (FOH) with 18 circuits
- 54 par 64, 1kw, variable lamp focus
- Two (2) Altman 1kl-6 at 12 degrees
- 10 Altman 1kl-6 at 20 degrees
- 18 Altman 1kl-6 at 30 degrees
- 10 Altman 1kl-6 at 40 degrees
- Four (4) Altman 1kl-6 at 55 degrees
- Nine (9) Altman 1kl-6 at 20-40 degrees (zoom)
- Six (6) 3-cell, 1.5kw per cell cyc lights
- Seven (7) 8-cell, 1kw per cell, four-circuit strip lights
- Various cables, single and multi runs, two-fers, adapters
Spotlights: Six (6) Strong Super Troopers
Forklift: One (1) Hundai, propane
Communications:
- Clear-Com intercom system wired throughout main arena, catwalk, and truck tunnel
- Clear-Com RS-601 beltpacks
- One (1) permanent station by sound board
- 8 headsets and beltpacks
- One (1) at 800 amps, three-phase, 50 feet from arena, camlock, located in truck tunnel
- Two (2) at 400 amps, three-phase, 70 feet from arena, bare wire tie-in, located in vomitorium
- One (1) at 400 amps, three-phase, 45 feet from arena floor, camlock, located on catwalk
Shore power: Two (2) at 400 amps, three-phase, 20 feet from load-in area, bare wire tie-in, located outside
- Housekeeping - staff
- Stagehands - WCU students, part-timers, IATSE
- Riggers - IATSE
- Lighting - staff
- Sound: staff
Note: Breaks, meal penalties or overtime may apply when using union labor.
- Secured parking lot: 126 feet by 67 feet
- Unsecured parking available
- Loading door: 20 feet high by 16 feet wide
- Trucks can either be unloaded to floor or can be backed to the back of stage. One (1) truck at a time.
For further information on the building, please contact Ryan Fisher, assistant director of operations, at 828-227-7677.
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