 | | Photo: Getty Images | | | Big things come in small packages | | This year's four-day Swissbau Compact fair will pack in more content than ever. The comprehensive event will spread a marketplace of exhibition, presentation, meeting, networking and relaxation space across the Messe Basel (Hall 1.0) and online from 3 to 6 May 2022.
At the Swissbau Innovation Lab, visitors will learn which digital technologies and applications are already shaping the contemporary construction industries, and which new innovations are about to break ground, with more than 80 companies, big and small, pitching their innovations live.
Swissbau Focus, meanwhile, invites over 260 international speakers to share their immeasurable expertise in a series of keynotes, workshops and panel discussions with a focus on sustainability, energy and climate change. | |  | | Photo: unsplash | | | Key topics in 2022 for the construction and real estate industry | | | Get the latest exciting news, share knowledge, and expand your own network: Swissbau Compact, from 3 to 6 May 2022, in Hall 1.0 of the Messe Basel, Switzerland, is the platform for professional and personal exchange in the construction and real estate industries. Awaiting trade visitors are events that cover all current industry topics, including specific ideas for the sustainable building of the future. Events calendar | | | Swissbau Innovation Lab shows the joint vision of its partners | | | The Swissbau Innovation Lab is a platform for digital transformation in the construction and real estate industry at Swissbau Compact. Visitors can experience first-hand which digital solutions are becoming today’s reality, as well as new technologies and applications shaping the future of the industry. One of the highlights is the iRoom – a 270° cinema, in which a short film shows collaboration and new ideas on the project 'High-Performance Building'. iRoom-Show | |  | | Photo: istockphoto | | | Interactive presentation of partners' products and solutions | | | At 'Innovation Pitches' in the Speakers’ Corner, there will be three to four companies who will present their digital solutions and applications for 30 minutes. The presentations will be followed by technical discussions in which the Digital Use Cases will be discussed with experts in more detail. In the 'Innovation Village', more than 80 partners – from big manufacturers and planning companies to younger 'wildcards' – will also show their innovative digital solutions and applications. Innovation Pitches | |  | | Photo: istockphoto | | | Swissbau Focus – a high-profile range of events | | | Swissbau Focus 2022, Swissbau’s format for events, is focused on 'New perspectives for a sustainable future'. The decision-makers for this platform carry out around 90 public events in cooperation with the leading partner, the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects SIA, and with 28 other industry associations, universities and institutions. The high-profile, interdisciplinary agenda focuses on the central questions surrounding architecture and design, new materials, energy and climate change mitigation, digitisation, spatial planning, facility management and the real estate market. Focus Night | |  | | Photo: pexels | | | Innovative and compact formats on-site or via live stream | | | Whether keynote session, workshop, or panel discussion – the profound know-how of more than 260 speakers will speed up the transfer of knowledge and pave the way for new solutions. Recognised experts provide in-depth insights into their creative experience and work. Among them are not only Swiss ‘stars’ like Ron Edelaar (EMI architect), Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron), Maria Lezzi (Director of the Federal Office for Spatial Development – ARE) and Heinrich Degelo (owner of Degelo Architects), but also digitisation expert Ilka May (CEO LocLab Consulting), the parametric design pioneer Fernando Romero from Mexico, and Charles Renfro (Diller Scofidio Renfro Architects) from New York. Architecture Lecture | | | | | | | | |
