12 June 2018
Many exhibitors will align their presentations to the four key topics and offer matching solutions. The key topics will be elucidated and discussed under different aspects at the trade-show forums and illustrated at the special shows on the basis of product and project examples. Here’s an overview of the four key topics of BAU 2019:
1. Digital: Processes + Architecture
The boundary between the digital or virtual and the analog or real world is gradually breaking down. Progress in digitalization has really been picking up pace in the building industry in recent years. With the latest developments in IT and above all in BIM (Building Information Modeling), the job of planning is undergoing tremendous change. Today, it is the norm for international planning teams to work together – at the same time and on the same data. That simplifies collaboration and makes the job easier. It also enhances the quality of planning.
The building trades must also get ready for the new development, if they are to remain competitive. In future, it will be possible to translate a plan in part directly into 3D production. In engineering, with components made of steel or wood, this is already a reality. But also in other areas it will be possible to feed 3D data into machines.
2. Connected: Living + Working
Great changes are taking place in the world of work. For many, the focus is no longer on pay but more on having flexible working hours or a better work-life balance. Thanks to digitalization, the world of work is more intertwined with the employees’ private lives. Increasingly important for workers now is being able to live the way they want and develop their own ideas, including childcare, the café around the corner and flexible working hours.
All of this is of course changing the world of building, in particular as regards designing office landscapes. Even more significant is the impact on the design of residential space. Floor plans should be cleverly designed so that they can be flexibly adapted. With only minimal effort, it should be easy to switch things around to cater for a home office, multi-generational living or higher occupancy, or to refunction a space or extend it. Digitalization and the greater flexibility of work and private life that goes with it are more than ever demanding flexible building structures that can respond to the housing shortage in our cities. Not least this has an effect on urban areas where new, digital mobility concepts must in future lead to new infrastructure.
3. Integrated: Systems + Constructions
The job of an architect and that of an engineer are sometimes hard to separate. Ever more sophisticated systems and technology need people who understand how to get the very best out of these possibilities. In the field of construction, as well as good design and material combinations, it is increasingly about complex load-bearing structures, lightweight constructions and highly technological components. One example is the facade which, as the outer skin of a building, must also accommodate technologies for ventilation or energy recovery, and all in a very small space. In themes like this, the jobs of the architects and the engineer intersect, and early, detailed planning, carried out in collaboration, is required.
Buildings are becoming ever more complex, but at the same time, there is a desire for simplification. The key to this lies in prefabrication and in modular construction. In the factory, many components can be fitted together better and faster, so when these parts are delivered to the building site, they only need to be put together like a jigsaw.
4. Smart: Light + Buildings
Buildings themselves are becoming even more digital. In a “smart building”, all the devices are linked up in a shared “smart grid” and so can communicate directly or indirectly with each other, supported by the internet of things technology.
LED technology, now the standard in lighting planning, has completely transformed the entire lighting sector. Light in buildings now not only uses less energy, it needs less space, and, because of the longer life of LEDs, it also needs less maintenance. That is having an effect of course on electrical planning, but also on architecture as such.
In a smart building, light becomes a part of the smart grid in which all devices in the building are connected up together. It is therefore possible to operate the blinds and control the artificial lighting by smartphone and even to combine these in atmosphere programs and lighting concepts.
https://bau-muenchen.com/
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Pacesetters: The Key Topics of BAU 2019
From January 14-19, BAU 2019, the world’s leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems, will take place in Munich. The four key topics of BAU 2019 set the pace and arrange the diversity of products.
 Photo: rawpixel on UnsplashWhile nowadays people spontaneously decide where and how they work also the building of working areas must connect working and living |
1. Digital: Processes + Architecture
The boundary between the digital or virtual and the analog or real world is gradually breaking down. Progress in digitalization has really been picking up pace in the building industry in recent years. With the latest developments in IT and above all in BIM (Building Information Modeling), the job of planning is undergoing tremendous change. Today, it is the norm for international planning teams to work together – at the same time and on the same data. That simplifies collaboration and makes the job easier. It also enhances the quality of planning.
The building trades must also get ready for the new development, if they are to remain competitive. In future, it will be possible to translate a plan in part directly into 3D production. In engineering, with components made of steel or wood, this is already a reality. But also in other areas it will be possible to feed 3D data into machines.
2. Connected: Living + Working
Great changes are taking place in the world of work. For many, the focus is no longer on pay but more on having flexible working hours or a better work-life balance. Thanks to digitalization, the world of work is more intertwined with the employees’ private lives. Increasingly important for workers now is being able to live the way they want and develop their own ideas, including childcare, the café around the corner and flexible working hours.
All of this is of course changing the world of building, in particular as regards designing office landscapes. Even more significant is the impact on the design of residential space. Floor plans should be cleverly designed so that they can be flexibly adapted. With only minimal effort, it should be easy to switch things around to cater for a home office, multi-generational living or higher occupancy, or to refunction a space or extend it. Digitalization and the greater flexibility of work and private life that goes with it are more than ever demanding flexible building structures that can respond to the housing shortage in our cities. Not least this has an effect on urban areas where new, digital mobility concepts must in future lead to new infrastructure.
3. Integrated: Systems + Constructions
The job of an architect and that of an engineer are sometimes hard to separate. Ever more sophisticated systems and technology need people who understand how to get the very best out of these possibilities. In the field of construction, as well as good design and material combinations, it is increasingly about complex load-bearing structures, lightweight constructions and highly technological components. One example is the facade which, as the outer skin of a building, must also accommodate technologies for ventilation or energy recovery, and all in a very small space. In themes like this, the jobs of the architects and the engineer intersect, and early, detailed planning, carried out in collaboration, is required.
Buildings are becoming ever more complex, but at the same time, there is a desire for simplification. The key to this lies in prefabrication and in modular construction. In the factory, many components can be fitted together better and faster, so when these parts are delivered to the building site, they only need to be put together like a jigsaw.
4. Smart: Light + Buildings
Buildings themselves are becoming even more digital. In a “smart building”, all the devices are linked up in a shared “smart grid” and so can communicate directly or indirectly with each other, supported by the internet of things technology.
LED technology, now the standard in lighting planning, has completely transformed the entire lighting sector. Light in buildings now not only uses less energy, it needs less space, and, because of the longer life of LEDs, it also needs less maintenance. That is having an effect of course on electrical planning, but also on architecture as such.
In a smart building, light becomes a part of the smart grid in which all devices in the building are connected up together. It is therefore possible to operate the blinds and control the artificial lighting by smartphone and even to combine these in atmosphere programs and lighting concepts.
https://bau-muenchen.com/
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