With 48,000 visitors, 930 high-quality exhibitors and 250 well-visited seminars, Nordbygg 2018 was a success with both the public and the exhibitors. The arrangers are now looking forward to 2020 with confidence, in particular because more than 50 percent of the exhibitor space has already been booked.
Very well-visited, as expected. The number of visitors finished at 48,260 for Nordbygg 2018, just over one thousand more people than in 2016. The positive reviews are coming thick and fast, and already the bookings for Nordbygg 2020 are coming in.
Thursday evening was the time for the big awards at Nordbygg. Five great prizes within construction and housing were awarded on the big stage. One of the presenters was the Secretary of Housing and Digitalisation, Peter Eriksson, and one of the winners was the hockey legend and property owner, Peter Forsberg. The Nordbygg Gold Medal was awarded to the company Operose.
Nordbygg 2018 is up and running. The construction and property sector is welcomed to a fair full of innovation, contacts and knowledge in all showcases and on different stages. During the introductory press briefing, highlights and some clear themes of the week were presented: recruitment, digitalisation, equality and the role of the client.
On April 10, the gates to Nordbygg 2018 will open, the largest and most influential fair for actors in the construction and housing industry in the Nordics. The content of the fair well reflects Nordbygg’s ambition to present the status of the industry and also to drive it in a positive direction.
The Swedish construction sector has many issues on the agenda. Innovative development, new demands on the role of the client and recruitment are a few of them. At Nordbygg 2018, these and many more will be addressed.
Tobias Jansson and Oscar Forsman, students at Umeå Architectural College are the winners of Nordbygg’s competition for students of architecture, Nya ögon på plast i arkitekturen (New view on plastics in Architecture). The winning contribution, Paviljong (Pavillon), will be set up in the entrance square at Stockholmsmässan, and function as a café and meeting place during Nordbygg, April 10-13.
Nordbygg is driving the development in the Swedish construction sector. This is in part done by actively starting and taking part in different initiatives on digital innovation, equality and skills development. These areas will make their mark on Nordbygg 2018, which will take place at Stockholmsmässan on April 10-12.
Nordbygg is basically an arena for transferring knowledge – the industry’s foremost in the Nordics. Lots of knowledge is wrapped into the seminars, which Nordbygg also is investing heavily in for 2018.
The Formex interior design fair, which will be held January 17-20, 2018, has given designer and exhibition architect Synnöve Mork the assignment to design an exhibition in Stockholmsmässan’s entrance hall that inspires and educates. The exhibition will be a collaboration between several artists, each of whom will present their own interpretation.
Fortum and Phoenix Contact are completely new exhibitors at Nordbygg, and both have a digital focus. Fortum introduces SmartLiving, a proprietary platform for the smart home. The goal of Phoenix is to position itself on the market for property automation.
The exhibitors have rushed to Nordbygg 2018, and despite the opening being more than six months away, more than 90 per cent of the exhibition area is already booked. Part of the explanation is that many companies are loyal exhibitors, who know that the early bird catches the worm.
Fidelix and IMI Hydronic Engineering are planning launches of new products and services. “Nordbygg is one of the very few opportunities when the industry comes together. That is why it is the perfect place for our launch”, says Tomas Frändén, CEO at Fidelix Sweden.
Nordbygg is the construction industry's largest, extensive and most dynamic meeting place in Northern Europe. Over the years, many international visitors have chosen to come to Nordbygg, to familiarise themselves with new products and services that leading Swedish and international exhibitors present at the fair.
The interest in booking a spot at Nordbygg is higher than ever. A full 77 per cent of Nordbygg's rentable space is booked in February 2017. Inwido, Bramsiq and Hultafors are three experienced exhibitors who are investing in Nordbygg 2018.
Wooden architecture is becoming a new Swedish export item. At Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, February 7-11, 2017, the exhibition Welcome to Woodland will present a wide range of innovative contemporary wooden architecture and discuss the different aspects of wooden architecture and design.
Nordbygg 2016 was visited by more younger people, more women and almost twice as many international visitors compared to the last fair. An industry event of high quality, where many visitors have influence on purchasing, is one summary.
In the financial and real estate world we often discuss economic bubbles and when they are expected to burst. In the electronics industry our equivalent to bubbles is the risk of poor cleanliness and long term product reliability.
A genuine industry expo with knowledge-intensive seminars. Networking and meetings that resulted in many deals being agreed right on the event floor. That, according to the results of the quality survey conducted for the event, is the broad strokes picture painted of Nordbygg 2016.
It will soon be time once again to award the Nordbygg Gold Medal for Product Innovation of the Year. The winner is set to be announed at Nordbygg on Thursday 7 April. Nordbygg will be held 5-8 April at Stockholmsmässan.
