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Fun Facts about Gaylord National

Currently, the Gaylord National is the largest hotel construction project on the East Coast and the fourth largest hotel construction project in the world.
As of April 2007, 180,000 cubic yards of concrete had been poured in the creation of the structure, which equates to 18,000 concrete trucks. If these concrete trucks were to form a single line, they would completely fill one lane of the outer loop and another lane of the inner loop of the I-495 Capital Beltway that circles Washington, D.C. That would be quite a rush hour!
As of April 2007, more than 200,000 cubic yards or 13,300 dump trucks full of dirt had been moved during the construction of the hotel. If you stacked each cubic yard of dirt on top of one another, you would have a pile of dirt 113 miles tall.
As of April 2007, more than 1.8 million man hours had been worked. That's an average of 1,400 workers onsite each day, working 11,200 work hours per day and 56,000 hours per week.
The atrium trusses, which stretch from one side of the hotel to the other, weigh 50 tons each. Together, they total 1,200 tons or 2.4 million pounds. To put that weight into perspective, it would take 45 space shuttle missions to launch these atrium trusses into the Earth's orbit, which would be more than one third of the 117 total space shuttle launches to date.
The highest point of the atrium is 230 feet high, meaning the 150-foot-tall space shuttle could easily be parked under it. The width of the atrium is 240 feet, or 80 yards long. It could take a football team 5 to 8 minutes to put together a scoring drive that would cover this distance.
The entire property features a total of 10 million square feet of drywall, which equals 312,500 sheets. If you stood these sheets of drywall end to end, they would stretch 473 miles, or halfway to Chicago.
Every individual meeting room in the Convention Center has enough data connectivity to transfer the entire encyclopedia Britannica (pictures and text) in one second. They are also each equipped with enough electrical power to service an average-sized, single-family home.
Gaylord National's two 2000kw emergency generators are capable of providing power to 400 individual homes.
The structure has more than 50 different air handling systems.
Throughout the entire property, there are more than 50,000 individual sprinkler heads and more than 57,500 light fixtures. If you replace, on average, one lightbulb a month in your household light fixtures, you would have to replace more than one lightbulb an hour, 24 hours a day, in our hotel to achieve that same replacement rate.
The Prince George's Exhibit Hall is the size of three football fields and has enough space to accommodate up to 400 full-size, tractor-trailer trucks.
The Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center encloses a total of 2,486,196 square feet.
If you wanted to spend one night in each of the 2,000 guest rooms at the Gaylord National Hotel, it would take you more than five years to complete.