Three halls, three sets of building rules. Which one you are in decides what you can build.
NAB fills the West, Central and North Halls of the LVCC. On a floor plan they look like one show; on move-in day they behave like three buildings, with different ceilings, different ways of getting power to your booth and long distances between them. This is what we check for every NAB booth before the design is drawn. For other Las Vegas venues, see Las Vegas trade show venues, hall by hall.
NAB assigns product categories to halls and keeps that map largely stable between editions, so your hall is usually decided by what you sell. What changes from booth to booth is the building around you.
| Hall | What it is like | What it means for the booth |
|---|---|---|
| West Hall | The newest building on the campus, with a very large column-free floor. Utilities come up through the floor rather than dropping from the ceiling. | Island layouts are free of column conflicts. Power and data are routed from floor boxes, so the electrical plan has to account for where those boxes are in your space. |
| Central Hall | The original core of the building, divided into several sub-halls with different ceiling heights. Some areas sit lower than the rest. | Check the ceiling at your exact position before committing to a flown sign or a tall LED wall. Utilities drop from overhead. |
| North Hall | Large halls with soffits and overhanging structures in places, including areas under the second-level meeting rooms and walkways. | Booths under a soffit may need extra hang points or may not be allowed a flown sign at all. Utilities drop from overhead. |
Exact ceiling heights and restricted areas for each booth position are in the show’s floor plan notes and the exhibitor services kit. We read both against your position before the first drawing.
Floor-box positions are fixed. A demo station placed away from them needs cable run under the carpet, which is labour and time on the electrical bill. We lay the booth out with the boxes on the drawing, so the clusters that need the most power sit closest to them.
Overhead drops come down into the booth, which affects where tall structures and flown signs can go. An island with several demo clusters is planned so drops land inside walls or columns rather than in the middle of a sightline.
Cox is the venue’s internet provider. For streaming and cloud demos, each cluster gets its own wired drop, ordered at advance rates with the same floor plan as the electrical order so both arrive where the hardware is.
Ceilings across the LVCC range from the mid-twenties to over forty feet, and the low areas are where NAB booths get caught out. Soffits and overhangs in the North Hall, and lower sub-halls in the Central Hall, can limit or rule out a flown sign. NAB’s own booth rules also cap structure height by booth type, and a hanging sign needs show approval and the official rigger.
NAB charges a flat material-handling fee on your space, covering dock-to-booth handling regardless of weight. Advance-warehouse storage and third-party shipments are extra, so direct-to-show-site freight in your target window is usually the simplest route.
Move-in is targeted by booth position. Our crated booths travel across town from our Las Vegas facility, so the truck leaves for your slot rather than sitting in a queue from another state.
The official contractor controls forklifts and the docks. Your own staff may hand-carry small items. Building the booth falls to the trades or an approved exhibitor-appointed contractor; our crews file as your EAC.
The distances between the West Hall and the North and Central Halls are long, and attendees use walkways and the underground Loop to cover them. In practice most visitors work their own hall thoroughly and the others selectively. Two consequences for exhibitors:
Prospects outside your hall need a reason and a time to make the trip. Meetings booked before the show do more than walk-up traffic for anyone not in your own hall.
Teams staffing more than one booth, or running a suite elsewhere, lose time crossing the campus. Plan staff rotations by hall, not by the clock.
A missing cable or part is further away than it looks. Our facility is in the same city, so replacements arrive by van, not courier.
Send your booth number or hall and footprint. You’ll have concepts that fit the building and one fixed price back within 24 hours.
Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451
