Over half a million people will attend this year’s Bauma – the world’s largest construction trade fair. (Photo: Messe Munchen)
The last Bauma was held pre-pandemic back in 2019 with a total of 3,684 exhibitors and more than 600,000 visitors from 217 countries – and this year is looking to be much the same.
Reports from the organisers at Messe Munchen state that all exhibitor space had been sold earlier this year, proving the industry still has an appetite for face-to-face trade shows.
As always, there is a packed schedule with plenty to see and do across the week and a comprehensive support programme in place to maximise everyone’s time at the show.
Lectures and discussions
The Bauma Forum, with lectures, presentations and panel discussions, will be found in the Bauma Innovation Hall LAB0. The forum programme will focus on a different trending key topic of Bauma each day.
This year’s key themes are “Construction methods and materials of tomorrow”, “Mining – sustainable, efficient and reliable”, “The road to zero emissions”, “Way to autonomous machines”, and “Digital construction site”.
Winners in the five categories of the Bauma Innovation Award 2022 will also be presented in the forum on 24 October.
With this prize, the VDMA (Mechanical Engineering Industry Association), Messe München and the top associations of the German construction industry will honour research and development teams from companies and universities that are bringing technology and innovation to the forefront of the construction, building materials and mining industry.
Science and innovation
Next to the forum will be the Science Hub.
In this area, ten universities and scientific institutes will be on hand to provide information on the latest status of their research with Bauma’s topic of the day providing structure.
Another segment included in this year’s show is the revitalised Start-up Area – found in the Innovation Hall in the Internationales Congress Centre (ICM) – where promising young companies can present themselves to a specialist audience.
The area provides innovative entrepreneurs with the opportunity to present their latest solutions in line with this year’s main themes of bauma.
Total immersion tech
Back in 2019, the VDMA - the largest association of the German Construction Industry - founded the “Machines in Construction 4.0” (MiC 4.0) working group.
At this year’s MiC 4.0 stand in LAB0 Innovation Hall, visitors will be able to see a demonstration of the new interface in action.
The virtual reality experience received positive feedback in 2019 and this year the focus will be on the digitalisation of construction sites.
Visitors are said to be able to immerse themselves in the construction sites of today and of tomorrow and experience the interactions between people and machines for themselves in the digital space.
The show will also focus on career prospects for young people with the THINK BIG! initiative run by the VDMA and Messe München.
In the ICM, companies will present “Technology up close” with a large workshop show, hands-on activities, games and information about a future career in the industry.
Visitors will be given the opportunity to offset their CO₂ footprint at the trade fair with a compensation premium of €5.
Post time: Oct-19-2022