Deubau in Essen has once more proven to be an important event in the building trade at the beginning of the year: Just as since 1962 when the curtain was raised on the premiere of the construction trade fair in Essen, it was once again the meeting place of the "people working in the construction sector" in the year of its 50th anniversary as well: For the total of 621 exhibitors who had arrived from 15 countries, the 25th edition of Deubau highlighted its significance as an indispensable communication hub. The concept of profiling Deubau even more strongly as a competence centre for architects and the housing industry has come off.
"In view of the very positive development in the past year with a turnover plus of over ten percent and of the optimistic prospects for the new year, the sector showed itself to be very confident at Deubau," Frank Thorwirth, Chairman and CEO of Messe Essen, made an initial assessment towards the end of the fair. The intensive information interest and the very concrete demand interest on the part of the over 55,000 trade visitors are said to be emphasised by the results of the representative survey of visitors. "Almost half of the specialists are giving very good and good marks to the economic trend in the sector. In 2010 on the occasion of the last Deubau, these marks were only awarded by one in four visitors."
More than ever, subjects about everything to do with energy and sustainability are dominating the situation in the building trade. Housing industry subjects, often connected with the demographic change and with aspects relating to all facets of the replanning, restructuring and revival of entire urban districts, were made the focus of attention at Deubau and were topics of very lively discussions. For the first time, Deubau had highlighted the significance of this important sector with the "Housing Industry Day". A lot of space was occupied by wood construction and by building with steel to which the largest architecture congress of the year in the German-language region with around 1,000 participants was dedicated.
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