Four halls with different ceilings and floors
The LVCC is organized into four hall groups: the West, Central, North, and South Halls. The LVCVA's facility brochure (December 2024 edition) lists the West Hall's four exhibit halls at about 602,000 square feet under 42-foot ceilings, including 328,000 square feet of column-free space. The Central Halls, C1 through C5, total about 623,000 square feet with ceilings from 25 to 35 feet, and the North Halls, N1 through N4, about 409,000 square feet at 33 to 35 feet.
The South Halls, about 820,000 square feet in all, span two levels. S1 and S2 are on the ground floor; S3 and S4 sit upstairs, where the July 2026 facility guide rates the floor at 300 pounds per square foot against 450 in the ground-level halls. Freight for the upper South Halls travels up the South Hall 3–4 ramp, and heavy equipment headed into S3, S4, C3, the C3 concourse, or C4 may need a structural engineer's review at the exhibitor's or show's expense.
Those numbers matter early. A hanging sign and truss package drawn for the 42-foot West Hall won't carry over to a 25-foot Central or South hall, and a machine display that suits a ground-level hall may need its load spread upstairs. Ask show management which hall you're in before the trade show exhibit design is locked.
Which major shows use the LVCC
CES (January 6–9, 2027) splits between the LVCC and Venetian Expo and publishes a separate exhibitor manual for each. SEMA Show 2026 runs November 3–6, with exhibitor move-in starting October 29. NAB Show's 2027 exhibits run April 4–7; its 2026 edition used the Central, West, and North Halls. World of Concrete 2027 (January 19–21) lists the North, South, and Central Halls plus the outdoor Silver and Bronze lots, and ConExpo-Con/Agg returns March 13–17, 2029.
Each show layers its own booth height limits, move-in windows, and contractor rules on top of the building's rules. The dates above come from each organizer's site as of October 2026; our Las Vegas trade show calendar tracks them and links back to the source.
The LVCVA's EAC permit for outside builders
The LVCVA requires an annually issued EAC permit from any show- or exhibitor-appointed company providing a service at the LVCC, separate from the show's own EAC registration. As of October 2026, the LVCVA lists a $250 annual permit fee and a certificate of insurance; its facility guide sets $1,000,000 minimums for general liability, automobile liability, and Nevada workers' compensation, and the company name on the application must exactly match the insured name.
Contractors also need a Clark County business license, and EAC staff working on site must carry an ESCA worker ID badge (trade union workers are temporarily exempt). Nevada requires convention-services workers who build, install, or dismantle displays to complete approved safety training within 15 days of starting in the industry, and Nevada OSHA-approved 10- and 30-hour courses satisfy it.
If you'd rather set up the booth yourself, the facility guide says the crew must be full-time employees of the exhibiting company with credentials, and show management has to approve it. Either way, put the builder's EAC paperwork on your trade show checklist early, because each show sets its own deadline.
Booth plans, multilevel exhibits, and rigging at the LVCC
The LVCC's Safety and Fire Prevention Office reviews booth plans for any single-level exhibit over 1,000 square feet, any covered area over 300 square feet, and every multilevel exhibit. The facility guide puts the submittal on the EAC, in CAD format to boothplans@lvcva.com, no later than 30 days before the first move-in day, and plans used at an earlier show must be resubmitted.
An occupied upper deck needs drawings stamped by an engineer registered in Nevada and a live load capacity of 100 pounds per square foot. Decks over 300 square feet, or holding more than nine people, need two remote means of egress, and spiral stairs aren't allowed for public areas. Covered areas over 300 square feet need battery-operated smoke detectors, and multilevel or covered areas over 1,000 square feet need sprinklers when the event runs seven days or longer or the exhibit includes vehicles, open flame, or hot work.
Final rigging plans are due 14 days before the first move-in day, with point loads marked on the booth layout. Only electric hoists are allowed, ground-supported truss or drape over 16 feet needs an overhead tie-in unless an engineer's drawing says otherwise, and the South Hall's first-floor steel beams can't carry rigging. Those rules shape double-deck and hanging sign designs from the first sketch.
Freight, hand-carry, and crates at the LVCC
The LVCC doesn't accept shipments for exhibitors; your show's official service contractor receives everything, whether it goes to the advance warehouse or direct to the dock. SEMA Show 2026, for example, issues each exhibitor a Freight Target Time and warns that missing it may bring off-target fees. The contractor publishes its marshaling yard address and hours in the exhibitor manual.
The hand-carry policy is narrow: full-time employees only, no hand trucks, dollies, or pallet jacks, no loading-dock access, and unloading from a parking lot in a personally owned pickup or passenger van, not a rental and never curbside. Anything bigger, or anything one person can't carry, goes through the show's contractor.
On the floor, freight stays three feet from masonry walls, and empty crates are staged at least 40 feet from the building (20 feet on the North Hall roadside) and stacked no higher than 16 feet. Hard-wall booths sit at least nine inches off the booth line for access to electrical, nothing can be stored behind a booth, and only a one-day supply of product can be kept inside it.
Utilities, food, and vehicle displays
The LVCVA's exclusive building partners include Cox Business for internet, voice, and cable TV; FedEx Office, which runs four business centers on campus; and Las Vegas Food & Beverage, operated by Sodexo Live!, for all food and beverage. Air compressors can be displayed but not run under load, so compressed air comes through an official service contractor, and the fire office may inspect any electrical component in a booth.
Sampling needs a Food and Beverage Sampling/Onsite Preparation Approval form and sign-off from both the LVCVA and the food and beverage division. Samples are capped at 3 ounces for nonalcoholic drinks and 2 ounces for food, items you don't manufacture must come from the exclusive caterer, and open sampling needs a hot-water hand-washing station and a sanitizing station. Display cooking appliances are generally limited to 288 square inches of cooking surface.
Vehicle displays have their own list: fuel at a quarter tank or five gallons, whichever is less, tank openings locked or sealed, a battery cable disconnected and taped, no charging inside, 36 inches of clear space around the vehicle, and no moving it during show hours. For brand activations with food, drink, or vehicles, build those approvals into the schedule before the design is final.
Getting to the LVCC from our southwest-valley shop
Our shop at 4545 W Reno Ave sits in the southwest valley near I-15 and I-215, and the LVCC is across town at 3150 Paradise Road, just east of the Strip. Show-week traffic around the campus can be heavy, so we plan deliveries around the show's target time rather than the mileage, with margin for the marshaling yard queue.
Being close changes what happens when something goes wrong. A damaged panel, a graphic that needs reprinting, or a counter that has to be resized can go back to our shop, or to Vegas Visual's print floor in the same building, instead of waiting on a cross-country shipment. Production can run 24/7 when a schedule needs it, and on campus the free Vegas Loop connects the LVCC's stations when staff need to get between halls.
Our LVCC exhibitor checklist walks through the steps in order. When you have a hall, booth size, and show dates, start a project and we'll reply within 24 hours.