Barcelona Meeting Point will celebrate its tenth anniversary from 7 to 12 November

Barcelona Meeting Point is divided into the professional exhibition, which will remain open from Tuesday 7 until November 9 and the Hall of the great public, from Wednesday 8 to Sunday, November 12. It also includes the International Symposium, which will take place in the living room Professional on 7 and 8 November, and will count with the collaboration of the European Property Federation, the Global Real Estate Institute, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, the Urban Land Institute, and ESADE and IESE Business School.

This year, the wide contest its 20,000 m² extension reaching the 70,000 m² of exhibition, which will be divided between the 1 and 2 for the attendance exhibition palaces and the Hall number 8 for the Professional salon and Symposium. This expansion has been to make room for all the companies who stayed out in the latest edition of the show due to lack of space.

The tenth edition of the BMP will feature a spectacular presence of foreign exhibitors and visitors especially Portugal, Brazil and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe, as a result of the success of the "Central Europe Meeting Point", held in Warsaw last April. Also, attendees to the event may listen to some of the most important architects of the world such as Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault and David Chipperfield talking about "Large equipment such as engine", in a session moderated by Spanish architect Luis Alonso transformation and urban regeneration. In addition, the Lounge will let the visitors know the latest trends, according to the Spanish Association of shopping centers, on issues such as urban planning, investment and marketing of shopping malls, as well as attend a debate, coordinated by the Association of promoters of Spain and the Centre for postgraduate IESE Business School of the University of Navarra, about the new law of the land between representatives of the Ministry of housing and the associations of promoters.

The show will offer visitors the opportunity to meet with top real estate employers and public authorities in such interesting markets for the Spanish businessmen such as Portugal, Brazil and the Caribbean (Mexico, Panama and Dominican Republic), as well as with leaderspublic and private, of countries of Central and Eastern Europe as Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., all of them in search of entrepreneurial and investment capacity of the Spanish promoters. In addition, attendees may also find the largest number of Presidents and directors of the Spanish estate and leaders of the Spanish public administrations as a result of the confirmed participation of numerous municipalities and autonomous regions as well as other State-level agencies led by the Ministry of housing.

Another possibility which will provide the contest and that is new this year is the Business Lounge located in the professional exhibition and sponsoring, Cushman & Wakefield. For companies that do not have a booth in the living room professional, it is the ideal place to hold business meetings. It will have 100 m² decorated by Osim and have meeting rooms, bar-coctelería, cloakroom, PCs with Internet and e-mail service, printer laser and area wi-fi. Also, first and last hour of the evening will be tasting of malts courtesy of a leading brand of imports of these products.

One of the prominent events of this tenth edition of Barcelona Meeting Point is the choice that offers the pageant and the bioclimatic House Association, with the support of the pace, to exhibitors developers of BMP 2006 join the 1st circuit sustainable. The shift towards a more sustainable building model is already an imperative in the real estate sector. The new technical building code and other laws and ordinances regional and local, so are demanding, and to the growing environmental awareness of the society also claims. The first sustainable circuit offers a journey through those developments that represent a step course towards sustainability, in order to highlight them and generate, in this way, an increase in the flow of visitors. To take part in this first sustainable circuit must be exhibitor of BMP 2006; pass and approve the diagnosis of sustainable construction, drawn up by the bioclimatic House Association (reach at least "Sufficient" level in a scale of 5 levels: excellent, notable, good, sufficient and insufficient) and make an economic contribution for promotional costs. Warsaw.

In the absence of a few days for the start of the Barcelona Meeting Point Hall, the contest has already grown 30% over last year. Thus, BMP held its 10th anniversary with more exhibition space and more international exhibitors that never in its history. And it is one of the entities that have recently joined the list of exhibitors is the city of Moscow, will participate in the tenth anniversary of Barcelona Meeting Point with a stand of 100 m². The city of Moscow with a delegation headed by first Deputy Mayor of the city, Vladimir Resin, will present in the Hall main plans of urban transformation as the "The Golden Ring of Moscow", which will provide the creation of new pedestrian areas to the city, and the construction and restoration of cultural monuments. The participation of the Moscow City Hall at BMP is the result of the last visit to Russia of the President of the Committee organising the salon, Enrique Lacalle; the Director-General, José María Pons, and the Director of international relations, Victor Red. On July 18, Enrique Lacalle was received by the Minister of Regional development, Vladimir Yakovlev, and also met with first Deputy Mayor and President of the construction Committee, Vladimir Resin; with the first Secretary of the city of Moscow, Alexander Khomenko, and with the Chief Architect of Moscow, Alexander V. Kuzjmin. Finally, BMP made a presentation to Russian businessmen in which Steve Shone, real estate Director of CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, directed a few words to the public as Chair of the ULI Moscow City District. Steven Shone has much to do with the banquet Meeting Point as she was rapporteur in the last edition of CEMP that took place in Warsaw.