“We capitalised on the less busy trade fair cycle since summer 2017 for the construction work and now have the new hall ready to be used when our extremely busy exhibition period from autumn 2019 to summer 2020 starts,” says Werner M. Dornscheidt, President & CEO of Messe Düsseldorf. “This new hall with its direct connection to the new Süd/South entrance along with the conference facilities for flexible use mean we are in an ideal position. We always focus on our customers’ needs here.”
158 m long, 77 m wide and with over 12,000 m² of floor space without any pillars, the new Hall 1 is roughly the size of Halls 8 a and b offering 558 m² more space than the two old Halls 1 and 2. In technical terms the new hall will live up to the highest demands and meet the high standards of the exhibition centre as a whole. It will be accessible via 7 gates, and it will allow suspensions from the ceiling and also the supply of facilities to stands from the hall floor. Visitors access the hall through the 16.5 m high, transparent foyer, whose 2,000 m² can also be used for events. Located in front of the foyer will be an oversized, 7,800m² canopy roughly 20 m high made of translucent glass fibre fabric. It will be completed over the coming months serving as a landmark for the new entrance.
Six modern, glazed conference rooms measuring 200 m² each for 198 persons will be available on the 1st floor of the hall. All rooms can be partitioned in the middle and are therefore even more flexible. Furthermore, the hall is connected to the CCD Süd Congress Center by a glass bridge on the 1st floor. A lateral route leads directly from the Süd entrance to the rest of the exhibition centre connecting with Halls 3 and 4. What’s more, the hall can also be used for events outside exhibition periods: with row seating it holds up to 10,000 persons. With this move Messe Düsseldorf considerably increases the utilisation possibilities of the hall in response to current developments in the trade fair and event business.
_{(Source: Messe Düsseldorf GmbH)}