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Last year's show has been billed a success.

Turkeybuild 2005 to open doors in May

01 March 2005

The International Turkeybuild 2005 Istanbul Fair is set to open its doors this May to an anticipated 80,000 visitors where it will display products and services from more than 750 local and international firms.

The expo, which is into its 28th year is organised by The Building Information Centre (BIC), and will take place on a 60,000 sq m fair area at the Tuyap Fair and Congress Centre, Beylikduzu/Istanbul, from May 04 to 08.
Says a spokesman for the BIC: “Companies will be grouped according to the products exhibited and the exhibitors will be spread across 10 halls. As it always has been, The BIC will be organising supporting activities like seminars, exhibitions, and panel discussions during the exihibition so as to make an intellectual contribution to the building sector. Last year’s event attracted 73,326 visitors from around the globe and we expects this figure to rise to 80,000 to include architects, engineers, contractors and professional executives.”
This year’s exhibition will display the latest in bathroom-kitchen equipment, building chemicals, adhesives and bindings, computer software, concrete, reinforcement and equipment, construction machinery and hand tools, conveying systems (escalators, elevators, etc.), design, services/real estate marketing, door systems and accessories, electricity-lighting, energy, façade and roof coverings, fixing-fitting elements, glass and transparent elements, HVAC, heat and sound insulation, indoors furnishing and equipment, installation equipment, landscaping, paint-varnish, partition walls, pipes and fittings, prefabricated elements and accessories, profiles, ready-mixed mortar and plasters, sauna and swimming pools, scaffolding-formwork and equipment, security systems and building automation, shutters, blinds and shades, signage and display elements, stairs, suspended ceiling systems and accessories, treatment systems, wall and floor coverings, wall blocks and elements, water, damp and fire proofing, and window systems and accessories.
The Turkeybuild 2005, which is an UFI approved event, will host building technologies and a wide range of building materials produced by Turkish and foreign companies, he points out.
“The building sector is one of the leading sectors in the Turkish economy with its links to around 150 different economic spheres. This sector is undoubtedly one of quite exceptional dynamism with its dependence to a very large extent on home industry, its independence of foreign sources, its ability to meet a large proportion of demand through domestic sources in the building materials industry and its support for subsidiary industries, its creation of a high rate of added value, the size of its employment potential, its close relationship as a manufacturing industry with the other sectors and its current earning potential through its work abroad.
“Building sector investments are distributed between investments in ‘dwelling houses’, ‘non-residential construction’ and ‘infrastructure’. Investments in dwelling houses account for 55 per cent of total investments, infrastructure for 30 per cent and approximately 15 per cent for non-residential construction.
The construction materials sector accounts for 10 per cent of the total industrial output and is the third biggest industry in terms of area after food and textile. The added value of the building sector in the service sector amounts to $8.2 billion at the current prices (2002) in Turkey. The share of the building sector in the national revenue was 4 per cent in 2003. If building materials comprised in the industrial sector are taken into account, the share of the building sector amounts to a production value of 7 per cent. If other sectors continuing their activities in line with developments in the building sector are taken into consideration the share in GNP rises to 25-30 per cent.
Commenting on the previous year’s exhibtion he says: “Turkeybuild 2004 was successfully organised with the participation of 628 companies of the sector including representatives 42 countries on 52,000 sq m area and hosted 73,326 visitors. Besides, Turkish contractors acting in the Balkans, CIS, Middle East and Northern Africa have achieved the opportunity to build new business contacts through International Turkeybuild Istanbul Fair.
Organised first in 1978, Turkeybuild Istanbul Fair has become the most outstanding event in Turkish building sector and a gathering point for professionals and producers. Throughout the past 27 years, Turkeybuild Istanbul Fair, has proved to its ever-increasing number of visitors and exhibitors so that, it is the most efficient way to exhibit the products and services.
As it has occurred since 1991, this year’s show will also award a Turkish building materials producer with “Altin Cekul (Golden Plummet) Award”. Apart from this awards such as the ‘Best Stand Design Awards’ and ‘The Building Information Centre Special Awards’ will also be given away within the fair, he adds.