FAIRMONT HOTELS & RESORTS -DESIGN STANDARDS

FAIRMONT HOTELS & RESORTS · DESIGN STANDARDS
PUBLIC AREAS
5. BALLROOMS AND MEETING ROOMS
5.1. General Requirements
Ballrooms are to be designed to suit the requirements of the incentive group market.
These groups use the rooms for major promotions as well as normal dinner and social
functions.
The Ballroom/meeting area foyer must relate directly with the main entry lobby by the
public corridor. The requirements will be similar to those expressed under the main
entry lobby section of these Design Standards.
The circulation area serves as the main arrival and control point and it should
accommodate business center, meeting coordinator, coat checkroom, phone and public
washroom facilities.
The lobby circulation links the pre-function area to the facility's main entrance and to
the hotel's public circulation. The coat-check room, guests’ washrooms and telephones
should be adjacent to it.
Entrance to have direct access to guestroom service (luggage) elevators.
All exposed grilles, diffusers, sprinkler escutcheons, speakers, etc shall be factory
painted to match adjacent surface.
Ductwork behind grilles and diffusers to be painted matt black.
Where high temperature producing equipment is located beneath, above or adjacent to
public areas, a special insulating wall or ceiling is to be provided to prevent heat
transmission to these areas.
Where very noisy and/or vibrating equipment is located beneath, above or adjacent
public areas, a special isolating wall or ceiling is to be provided. This wall or ceiling is
in addition to providing antivibration mountings for individual pieces of equipment.
All walls to have a sound rating of not less than 54 dB (FSTC 54).
5.2. Ballroom Pre-function Space
Pre-function space (approximately 40% of net ballroom area) should accommodate
group reception and registration area and provide assembly space for ballrooms and
meeting rooms at beginning, intermission and post function activities and be private and
separate from the hotel general circulation areas.
Portable group registration desks (FF & E) shall have the following voice/data
provisions should be concealed in the wall behind a baseboard access panel at each desk
location:
a) Duplex electrical outlets (UPS) for computer system (CRT,
keyboard and printer)
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