Bau 2013: six successful days

Bau, the world´s leading trade fair for architecture, materials, systems, is more international, classier and even more professional than ever before. That, in a nutshell, is the impression gained after six successful days at this number 1 sector platform featuring once againpacked exhibition halls and delighted exhibitors and visitors. Despite sometimes difficult weather conditions, with snow-covered roads and hundreds of delayed or cancelled flights, once again over 235,000 trade visitors made the journey to Munich, matching the record figures of 2011. The exhibiting area of 180.000 m² welcomed 2,060 exhibitors from 41 countries. In terms of visitors from outside Germany, the 60,000 mark was exceeded for the first time ever. There was particularly strong growth in the number of visitors from Russia (2,920 visitors), China (1,091) and Japan (750). The view among the exhibitors was that the quality of Bau this year had improved still further, both as regards booth design and product presentation, and the quality of the trade visitors. And this year again, Bau lived up in full to its reputation as an “architects’ fair”. Once more around 50,000 of the visitors came from architectural and planning offices.
The next Bau takes place from January 19 to 24, 2015 at the Messe München exhibition center.