Leading Zone | Shanghai's largest professional indoor theater will land in Pudong by the end of October
The reporter learned from Pudong that by the end of October this year, the first commercial and cultural complex in Shanghai, Qiantan 31, which integrates four major formats: performance, commerce, office, and hotel, will officially open. At that time, the performance center with 2500 seats will be the largest professional indoor theater in Shanghai.
Since the beginning of this year, the offline entertainment market in Shanghai has experienced a strong recovery. As of now, more than 80 large-scale concerts have been held in the Expo area where performance venues gather. The high-frequency activities, high-density pedestrian flow, and high standards of standards have brought huge opportunities to the World Expo area, but also put forward extremely high requirements for fire safety and security in the region.
Zhang Jincang is an engineer from the Expo Brigade of the Pudong New Area Fire Rescue Brigade, and also the liaison officer in charge of the two major performance venues in the Expo area, Mercedes Benz Cultural Center and Pudong Development Bank Oriental Sports Center. The performance was only a few short nights, but the fire protection started a month ago.
In the early approval stage, Zhang Jincang can always be seen holding drawings and carefully discussing with the organizer, from aisle spacing to stage construction materials and mechanical equipment specifications, every detail. During the stage construction phase, Zhang Jincang and his colleagues need to compare each piece of incoming materials with the testing reports and samples provided by the organizer. Fire tests should be conducted on-site on curtains, carpets, flame retardant plywood, etc. to ensure compliance with safety standards.
Before the start of the event, the fire prevention and extinguishing forces of the team station conducted in-depth research and inspection at the venue, relying on corresponding card style contingency plans, combat information cards, business papers, etc. to conduct on-site inspections, familiarization, and fire drills. Synchronize the use of intelligent decision-making terminals and visual mobile phones to build a dual inspection system of on-site inspection and intelligent cloud, effectively providing strong support for security tasks. At the event site, the team and station will send mobile forces according to the actual situation such as the scale of the event and the flow of people, cooperate with the supervisor in charge to stay on guard throughout the whole process, and carry T5 foam fire extinguishing devices and fire water mist to ensure that the fire will be extinguished as soon as possible in case of danger.