CONSTRUTEC 2008 doubles the foreign presence
Despite the situation that crosses the construction sector, should be noted the high business participation (511 exhibitors), 110, i.e. practically double with respect to the previous edition of 2006, they are foreigners. In particular, are signatures of 17 nationalities, emphasizing - in order of importance - the Portuguese, followed by the German, Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg, Italian, French and Chinese.
The general area of Construtec welcomes the offer of 383 exhibitors, who joined those of the other three specialized rooms that have been integrated in recent years in the trade show. Thus, the Hall of the Interior architecture, Decotec, which already celebrates its eighth edition, is that higher growth has been on this occasion, with 52 companies; While the third monograph Hall of precast concrete and the second monograph Hall of wooden architecture are maintained at the same level of two years, with 34 and 54 firms respectively.
In addition, CONSTRUTEC has hosted an intensive parallel programme of activities, in which the architecture has had a special role. Well, the official Architects Association of Madrid, Coam - collaborator of the fair - has taken advantage of for the second consecutive time the framework of the fair, for the celebration of the International Congress of architecture, under the slogan 'Building the city of the future'coinciding with the week of the architecture that this body convenes every year in different scenarios of Madrid. A meeting which has counted with the presence of some of the most famous architects of the time and which has been attended by 2,500 people. Other equally important meetings have been the day ' transforming tomorrow, architectures in steel ', of the worldwide leading firm in Arcelor Mittal Steel, which also brought a prestigious figures of the world of architecture; the presentation of the World Wilde Foundation Iberian network trade forest, or the analysis of the implementation of the technical building code, CTE, in its different facets.
