Following the successful completion of the TurkeyBuild 2004, the organisers of one of the leading trade shows in the region is optimistic of a greater participation when the show – the 28th of the series – will be held at the Tuyap Fair and Congress Centre, Beylikduzu/Istanbul, next May.

“International TurkeyBuild Istanbul 2004 was successfully organised with the participation of 628 companies from the sector including representatives from 42 countries who displayed their products and services on an area of 52,000 sq m and hosted approximately 74,000 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,” says a spokesman for the organiser Building Information Centre (BIC).
TurkeyBuild 2005 is expected to see the convergence of 80,000 visitors from all around the world to witness companies from the various sectors displaying the latest in their product range within the 60,000 sq m fair area.
“Companies will be exhibiting their products in 10 halls and will be grouped according to their exhibited products,” says a spokesman for the Building Information Centre.
“As it has always been, BIC will be organising supporting activities like seminars, exhibitions, and panel discussions during 28th International TurkeyBuild Istanbul 2005 Fair, and will serve to provide an intellectual contribution to the building sector,” he says.
The UFI approved fair, which will run from May 4 to 8, will host building technologies and a wide range of building materials produced by over 700 Turkish and foreign companies.
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, facade 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, window systems and accessories will be exhibited at the international TurkeyBuild Istanbul 2005.
“The BIC will provide construction sector professionals an opportunity to witness the latest products, technology and progress in construction and building industry,” he says. 
He continues: “The building sector is one of the leading sectors in the Turkish economy with its links to around 150 different economic spheres. The sector is undoubtedly one of quite exceptional dynamism for its dependence to a very large extent on the 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.
Elaborating on the statistics he says: “Investments within the sector lay distributed between those made on ‘houses’, ‘non-residential construction’ and ‘infrastructure’. While the investments made on houses account for 60 per cent of total investments, the investment on infrastructure amounts to 25 per cent and that on non-residential construction amounts to 15 per cent.
“The total value of the building sector amounts to TL 11.4 quadrillion ($7.5 billion) at the current prices (2002) and the share of the sector in the national revenue stood at 4.6 per cent in 2002.
“If building materials within the industrial sector are taken into account, the share of the building sector amounts to a production value of nine 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 30 per cent.
“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,” he says.
“And keeping with the tradition that was started off in 1991, a Turkish building materials producer will be awarded with “Altin Cekul (Golden Plummet) Award”. Apart from this, the ‘Best stand design awards’ and the ‘The Building Information Centre Special Awards’ will also be given away at the fair,” he concludes.