The Vancouver Convention Centre offers one of the most innovative, beautiful and greenest settings for your next event.
History
- Built on the original Pier B-C on Vancouver's Waterfront, the Vancouver Convention Centre first served as the Canada Pavilion for the World's Fair Expo in 1986. Since then, we've grown to become recognized as one of the leading convention centres in the world
- Part of the BC Pavilion Corporation, a Crown corporation
- 70 PavCo employees plus six official suppliers with a further work force of 291 full-time equivalents (FTE)
- $215 million economic activity (Fiscal 2010)
- Bell Canada
- AVW-TELAV Audio Visual Solutions
- Best Services Professionals
- Centerplate Food & Beverage
- Contemporary International Inc.
- Events on the Move
- RIGGIT Services Inc.
- IMEX Green Supplier Award, Silver (2011)
- Top Ten Green Projects awarded by the American Institute of Architects' Committee on the Environment (COTE) (2011)
- American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Awards for Interior Architecture (2011)
- Architect Magazine's Annual Design Review - Bond Citation (2010)
- PCMA Achievement Awards – Environmental Leadership Award (2010)
- AIA Northwest & Pacific Region Design Awards – Honor Award (2010)
- Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver’s Commercial Building Award – Legacy (2010)
- SAB Canadian Green Building Awards (2010)
- Recycling Council of BC MOBI Award (2010)
- Association Meetings’ Inner Circle Award (2010)
- M&IT Industry Awards – Best overseas convention centre in bronze (2010)
- Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Awards for Excellence: the Americas competition (2010)
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Platinum (2010)
- AIPC's "World's Best Conference Centre" Apex Award (2008, 2002)
- Green Supplier Award (silver) by The Green Meeting Industry Council and IMEX (2008)
- Tourism BC Environmentally Responsible Tourism Award (2008)
- Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC) Profile and Power Award (2007)
- Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Silver Service Award (2007)
- Globe Foundation - IMEX Green Meetings Gold Award for the WUF3 (2006)
- BOMA’s GO GREEN Certificate of Achievement (2005)
Events
- 350+ events attracted 225,000 delegates (fiscal 2010)
- First official international event: World Culinary Arts Festival
- Largest event: XI International Conference on AIDS (15,000 delegates)
- Smallest event: Meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton
- Most unusual start time: Three Tenors Gala (at midnight)
- After the Aga Khan's 1992 visit, 123 single shoes were left behind
- One recorded marriage proposal in Exhibit Hall A
- Due to a lack of capacity, a client event was held off site at nearby Bowen Island and we rented a ferry in lieu of space!
- To accommodate a 12,000 person event (Federation Dentaire Internationle), we successfully converted the parking garage into an exhibit hall
- Unique "scratch kitchen" utilizes fresh, local products
- Exclusively serves British Columbia VQA quality wines
- Average servings per year include 583,680 cups of coffee and 7 tons of beef
- At the World Buddhist convention, 18,000 meals were served in three days
- Recycling: recycles an average of 180,000 kilograms of materials annually, nearly half of the total volume of waste generated
- Food & Beverage: avoids canned goods, disposable utensils and dishes, and donates leftover food to local charities
- Designated a Power Smart Convention Centre by BC Hydro
- Awarded "GO GREEN" certificate from the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) for industry-approved, environmental best practices in building management
- Expansion: Living roof, seawater heating and cooling, on-site water treatment and fish habitat built into the foundation of the West Building make it one of the "greenest" convention centres in the world
