Moscone Aims for Highest LEED Convention Center Status

The Moscone Center expansion exemplifies the climate-conscious building of the future.

SAN FRANCISCO—The Moscone Center expansion, a construction manager/general contractor-led integrated project delivery development, involved reconfiguring the convention center’s North and South Exhibit Halls to increase exhibition space, resulting in a total expansion area of 350,000 square feet, with four levels above grade and one level below grade. The project increased contiguous exhibition space, ballroom, meeting room, retail and support spaces.

The center also offers more than 20,000 square feet of outdoor terraces that allow attendees to host receptions outdoors. The project team prioritized the center’s integration with the community surrounding it, developing numerous features to promote public accessibility, with a wide accessible sidewalk and 12,000 square feet of open public space, including a new play area in the children’s garden.