German exhibition centre and drupa host Messe Dusseldorf is building a new multi-functional hall with conference facilities and a fully glazed new south entrance complete with a translucent, LED-lit canopy roof, and adjacent underground parking.
The construction should be finished by June 2019. The investment in this new Complex South totals €140m. By 2030 Messe Düsseldorf will invest a total of some €636m in its premises – almost $1bn.
Werner Dornscheidt, president and CEO of Messe Düsseldorf says, “With the start of construction we have taken an important step towards the complete modernisation and renovation of our premises at our homebase; and we continue adapting the exhibition centre to our customers’ demands and requirements thereby increasing our service excellence even further. And as always this is done without any subsidies.”
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From the new south entrance visitors can enter the new Hall 1 right away. With a length of 158 metres, a width of 77 metres and more than 12,000 square metres of space without supports, its layout roughly corresponds to that of Halls 8a and 8b, offering a total of 558 square metres more space than the two old Halls 1 and 2 together.
In terms of technical features and its enormous flexibility the new hall lives up to both exhibitors’ and visitors’ highest demands while meeting the high standards of the exhibition centre as a whole. The first floor of the hall will house a new conference area with six convention rooms, which can be divided up and flexibly adjusted in size to the various required purposes.
The next drupa is slated for June 2020.
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