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Interbuild sparks back into action (29/7/2009)

Interbuild – the UK’s leading construction show – returns on 18 to 21 October with a sparkling new line-up guaranteed to attract a broader base of specifiers than ever before.

‘Interbuild Specifier’ is set to reach out to a variety of audiences including architects, engineers, project managers, local authorities as well as professionals across the electrical industry. Visitors to this area of the show will be impressed not just by the range and quality of exhibitors, but also a host of new visitor attractions.

Providing four packed days of dealmaking and networking opportunities, Interbuild Specifier will focus on all areas of the specification market including lighting & electrical, interiors, IT and fire & security.

Visitors will be particularly excited by the prospect of seeing the showpiece attraction at Interbuild Specifier – Sustainability Street. This area of the exhibition will feature real-life residential structures offering the opportunity to see, touch and experience contemporary sustainable construction at its best. Each structure will feature a range of product innovations supplied by exhibitors from across the show:

Ergohome

A full scale example of their low cost, sustainable two-storey house will be displayed by Ergohome at Sustainability Street. Through a combination of careful design, material sourcing and 'factory' assembling, the Ergohome showcases sustainable technologies, which can be installed at affordable prices. With their first trials having been installed at Birmingham University, the Ergohome offers high quality, affordable housing that minimises the impact on the environment both in its construction and use as a home.

Eco-Mods House Pod

The House Pod from Eco-Mods Ltd will showcase an innovative example of offsite construction for the housing market. Manufactured entirely offsite in a quality controlled factory environment, the House Pod is delivered to site pre-finished, complete with appliances, fixtures and fittings. Requiring only external finishing and a roof, the affordable home is ready for occupation within hours.

The 99% Challenge

Taking the form of three period properties this feature will show, through cross section, how a variety of installations and techniques can renovate existing stock to make it more sustainable and eco-friendly.  The feature is brought to Interbuild Specifier in partnership with the BRE, NHIC and the NFRC.

The Intelligent Building

Supported by CEDIA, The Intelligent Building will boast a unique collaboration of the latest intelligent technologies integrated into an innovative two-storey building using SupaWall® - a system which offers world class timber frame performance.

In a contemporary style with both mono-pitch and duo-pitch roof lines, the Intelligent Building is constructed to PassivHaus standards and used to display the very latest energy efficiency and very low carbon construction techniques. 

Innovation Theatre

Featuring presentations from the contributors to Sustainability Street, the Innovation Theatre will prove to be a vibrant hub of networking and learning, with the focus on product design and innovation. Assembled visitors will gather within a unique eco pod which has been designed specifically as a low impact, carbon responsible module and will be used to stage a number of seminars.

SummitSkills

SummitSkills’ live action grand finals are plunging their way back to the exhibition following a hugely successful debut at the exhibition last year. The SkillELECTRIC and SkillPLUMB competitions, organised by the sector skills council for building services engineering, will run side-by-side across the four days of the show.

The highest scoring electrical and plumbing competitors from regional heats across the UK will be invited to participate at the final to battle it out in a number of practical challenges. Electricians will test their wits on a mixture of domestic and commercial wiring circuits to install and test. Meanwhile, plumbers will test their hands at hot and cold water, as well central heating pipework and components.

The finals will conclude with an awards ceremony which will be held in the show’s Construction Forum Theatre between 3-4pm on the last day of the exhibition.

New Product Awards

In search of the very best building industry’s products and innovations, Interbuild has launched its coveted annual New Product Awards.

Representing current trends in the industry, the awards will enable visitors to see genuinely ground-breaking new products for the first time and vote online for their favourite innovation.

There are nine categories to enter this year, three of which are new for 2009 and include ‘Best New Sustainable Product’ and ‘Best New Product for the Education sector’.

All shortlisted entries will be displayed in The Construction Forum Theatre, Interbuild’s free, case study focussed conference, with a special awards ceremony taking place in the Forum on Monday 19th October.

To register for free to attend Interbuild Specifier, saving the £20 entry fee, use priority code EBC at:

www.interbuild.com/register