Congress and Trade Fair for Sustainable Building in Stuttgart
Date: 23-24 June 2009
Venue: Trade Fair Centre Stuttgart, Germany
Sustainable building is a hot topic at the moment. This is underlined by the
interest in Consense – the International Congress and Trade Fair for Sustainable
Building – to be held on 23 and 24 June 2009 in Stuttgart. A large number of visitors, congress participants and
exhibitors have already registered their attendance. This unique industry
gathering will be staged at Messe Stuttgart (the new Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre
adjacent to Stuttgart Airport) and hosted by the German Sustainable Building
Council (DGNB) and Messe Stuttgart itself.
Operating under the slogan 'Generating added value – sustainability in the
building and property industries', participants are looking forward to an
interesting and informative event. During the plenary session, the spotlight
will be on a wide range of topics: What are the benefits of sustainable building
for owners and investors? What advantages do users of sustainable buildings
enjoy? And how will sustainable building become a driving force for innovation
among building material manufacturers? Consense will provide the answers to all
these questions. A wide range of subjects will be addressed, from 'sustainable
urban development' to the internationalisation of Germany's 'seal of quality'.
Consense 2008
© Messe Stuttgart
Anyone who wants to learn more about the German seal of quality for
sustainable building will be in the right place in Stuttgart this June.
Participants will have an opportunity to learn more about the DGNB in a series
of workshops. This will include information on training auditors, and on the new
working groups, which have now begun work certifying further types of building
and urban areas – including residential and existing buildings, commercial and
industrial properties and the creation of new urban areas. Participants in these
workshops will have the opportunity to discuss and develop their knowledge of
individual specialist areas in an intensive dialogue with the experts.
For the first time, Consense is offering participants the opportunity to
appraise sustainably built and certified constructions on location. Excursions
will be available to individual buildings at the cutting edge of sustainability
– the first to be awarded the German seal of quality for sustainable building.
The high-quality trade fair will take place at the same time as the
international congress. A number of renowned companies have already confirmed
their attendance, including Bilfinger Berger, BASF and Schüco. The focus will be
on top-class services and products, as sustainable building continues to spur on
many innovations.
"We believe that sustainability will shape the future of the construction
industry," says Holger Schirmeier, who is employed by Xella Aircrete Systems
GmbH in its sales and marketing division for business and industrial
construction projects. "Consense offers an emerging platform for the exchange of
knowledge and experience. This is where networks of the kind promoted by
sustainable building are created!" Already on its second outing to Consense,
Xella is exhibiting products, projects and developments in the area of fire
safety as well as sustainable and climate-proof building.
"We will demonstrate that cost-effectiveness and quality can go hand in hand,"
says Andreas Gradinger, director of 'Planning and Property Management' at
CAPAROL. "We see this as a healthy and logical development". One of the event's
great draws is that it caters to the whole spectrum of the construction,
residential and property industries – from investors and planners to project
developers. Gradinger relishes the opportunity that Consense offers to meet
like-minded people who, like CAPAROL, are ready to break new ground – up to and
including a shake-up of their view of the entire life cycle.
"Throughout Consense, the DGNB will be informing people about the latest
developments in the area of green building both domestically and internationally,"
says Dr Michael Bauer, Managing Director of Drees & Sommer Advanced Building
Technologies. "There will be a presentation of new requirements governing green
building certification for renovated buildings, as well as all the latest news
on portfolio certification, the retail sector, residential areas, schools and
urban development. As green building experts and DGNB certifiers, we expect a
lively exchange of information at Consense.
This year there will also be a guided tour of some DGNB pilot projects,
including the Drees & Sommer office building at 11 Obere Waldplätze (OWP). Here
participants will be introduced to the integrated expertise of Drees & Sommer in
a 'real-life setting'."
Consense 2009 once again offers a highly attractive forum for developing
existing contacts and creating new networks. It is well on its way to
establishing itself as the international industry gathering in the field of
sustainability.
Further Information on the Trade Fair:
Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Melanie Bachmann
Messepiazza 1 • D-70629 Stuttgart
Tel. +49 711 18560 - 2631
Fax +49 711 18560 - 2657
eMail:
melanie.bachmann@messe-stuttgart.de
web:
www.messe-stuttgart.de/cms/consense09-kongress
Further Information on the Congress:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB)
German Sustainable Building Council
Kronprinzstrasse 11 • D-70173 Stuttgart
Tel.: +49 711 72 23 22 - 0
Fax: +49 711 72 23 22 - 99
eMail: info@dgnb.de
web: www.dgnb.de/en
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