Bau 2019 was another record-breaking event. On an exhibition space totaling 200,000 square meters for the first time, 2,250 exhibitors (2017:2,120) from 45 countries showcased their products and solutions for the building sector in Muenchen (11-16 January). Visitor numbers reached 250,000, with the figures for visitors from outside Germany climbing to a new high of 85,000 (2017: 80,500), from over 150 countries. All of which underlines the status of Bau as the ‘World´s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials and Systems’. With almost 70,000 participants, one in four visitors came from the areas of architecture, engineering and planning.
Deputy Chairman of the Board Reinhard Pfeiffer is very satisfied with the success of BAU 2019: “The keen interest from visitors in building automation and BAU IT shows that the whole subject of digitalization is now gaining ground and finally being taken up in the building sector. With the key themes we identified for Bau 2019 we had already put the focus on the digital transformation.”
From the point of view of the exhibitors, Dieter Schäfer, Chairman of the Exhibitor Advisory Board of Bau, was also pleased with the results: “For the exhibitors BAU 2019 was a very successful trade fair. There were two main reasons for this. First the quality of the visitors and the international spread reflected among them has further increased. And second the fact that Messe München set out the additional exhibition space from a visitor perspective and thereby further developed the unique world of themes covered by Bau.”
