31 October 2018
"At peak times, there were more than 800 skilled tradespeople working on the site of the 34,000 m² hall simultaneously," Peter Feldmann, Mayor of Frankfurt am Main and Chairman of the Messe Frankfurt Supervisory Board stressed.
"Its floor space is equivalent to the area covered by five football pitches. A total of 800 parking spaces are available in the adjacent multi-storey car park. Approximately 600 kilometres of data and low-current cables were laid, together with 50 kilometres of cables for building control technology. There are also 46 ventilation systems, 50,000 square metres of ventilation ducts, six cooling units, 34 kilometres of heating and cooling lines, 160 radiators, 25,000 sprinklers and 11.2 kilometres of stainless steel drinking water lines. On the roof are 5,300 solar modules covering a total area of 9,000 square metres. These make it possible to generate enough energy to cover the average annual consumption of 241 four-person households," he explained.
The Via Mobile, a covered and glazed transport system with moving walkways and escalators measuring roughly three kilometres in length, conveniently links all the halls on the exhibition grounds. At the official opening, a delighted President and Chief Executive Officer Wolfgang Marzin said: “We have built a state-of-the-art, highly flexible hall with a transparent construction that allows for ideal visitor management and logistics. We would like to thank our shareholders and the Supervisory Board for their excellent, farsighted decision to build Hall 12 – thereby optimising the exhibition grounds as a whole. With Hall 12, we have created the best possible conditions for an even more flexible use of our exhibition grounds in future.”
Since 1997, Messe Frankfurt has been pursuing an ambitious master plan that aims to modernise the exhibition grounds, taking its quality to an even higher level. Uwe Behm, member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt, said: “We are currently on the home stretch with this master plan. Once it has been completed, we will have invested around €1 billion in our exhibition grounds.” This will also include the new Hall 5, work on which will begin directly after the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair, the technical overhaul of Hall 6 and the revitalisation of the Congress Center.
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Messe Frankfurt’s Hall 12 officially opened
At Messe Frankfurt, the new Hall 12 was officially opened on 25 October at a ceremony attended by some 2,000 invited guests. The building was constructed over a two-year period and is the "cornerstone of the open area development in the western section of the Messe Frankfurt exhibition grounds".
 Photo: Messe Frankfurt / ValentinHall 12 was constructed over a two-year period and is the “cornerstone of the open area development in the western section of the Messe Frankfurt exhibition grounds”. |
"Its floor space is equivalent to the area covered by five football pitches. A total of 800 parking spaces are available in the adjacent multi-storey car park. Approximately 600 kilometres of data and low-current cables were laid, together with 50 kilometres of cables for building control technology. There are also 46 ventilation systems, 50,000 square metres of ventilation ducts, six cooling units, 34 kilometres of heating and cooling lines, 160 radiators, 25,000 sprinklers and 11.2 kilometres of stainless steel drinking water lines. On the roof are 5,300 solar modules covering a total area of 9,000 square metres. These make it possible to generate enough energy to cover the average annual consumption of 241 four-person households," he explained.
The Via Mobile, a covered and glazed transport system with moving walkways and escalators measuring roughly three kilometres in length, conveniently links all the halls on the exhibition grounds. At the official opening, a delighted President and Chief Executive Officer Wolfgang Marzin said: “We have built a state-of-the-art, highly flexible hall with a transparent construction that allows for ideal visitor management and logistics. We would like to thank our shareholders and the Supervisory Board for their excellent, farsighted decision to build Hall 12 – thereby optimising the exhibition grounds as a whole. With Hall 12, we have created the best possible conditions for an even more flexible use of our exhibition grounds in future.”
Since 1997, Messe Frankfurt has been pursuing an ambitious master plan that aims to modernise the exhibition grounds, taking its quality to an even higher level. Uwe Behm, member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt, said: “We are currently on the home stretch with this master plan. Once it has been completed, we will have invested around €1 billion in our exhibition grounds.” This will also include the new Hall 5, work on which will begin directly after the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair, the technical overhaul of Hall 6 and the revitalisation of the Congress Center.
https://www.messefrankfurt.com/
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