Building: Did you know ...

The building is 155 feet tall with a foundation of reinforced steel in a cement slab.
There are 182 piles supporting the building. The clearance of the deck at high tide is one foot.
There are 172 parking spaces in the guest lots, including six spaces for guests with disabilities.
There are 391 lights and 766 triangles on the Science World dome.
There are 15,000 pounds of extruded aluminium and aluminium panels on the dome. The panels are 1 mm thick and are covered with a vinyl surface.
Science World has a total building area of 10,220 square metres and a total exhibit area of 4,275 square metres. The building’s volume is 36,790 cubic metres.
The centre’s air-conditioning system uses chilled water for cooling and gas-fired boilers for heating.
The length of the ramp leading to the OMNIMAX Theatre is equal to the length of two football fields.
The OMNIMAX Theatre seats 400 people. Its screen is 27 metres in diameter. The theatre’s sound system uses high-fidelity, six-channel, two-way sound with sub-bass to create an unparalleled surround sound experience. Twenty-eight speakers are located in clusters behind the theatre’s screen. A 45-minute film requires about four kilometres of OMNIMAX film stock.
The 15,000 watt xenon lamp that lights the screen is so bright that if you placed it on the surface of the moon and focused it at a spot on Earth, you could actually see its light.