Show Report: Five Things Learnt from Light+Building 2014

By Duncan Greene and Chris Topham, Abtec Building Technologies. This year, there were two good reasons for us attending Light+Buidling: the KNX TOP Event in which we participated as a KNX Award Nominee; and to see as much building automation technology on the show floor as we could. Here is our roundup of the five […]
Show Report: Trends at Light+Building 2014

By Sophie Thomas, Ivory Egg. Fresh off the plane from Frankfurt and the world’s largest trade fair for lighting and building technology – Light+Building 2014, the Ivory Egg team is full of enthusiasm for what we have seen. With two ‘first-timers’ in the Ivory Egg group, namely Nikita Thompson and Matt Emberson, and our long-lost […]
12th KNX Apprentice Championship at Light+Building 2014 Attracts 162 Participants
162 Participants took part at the “12th KNX Apprentice Championship” at the BZL-Lauterbach booth at light+building 2014. The championship was successfully organised by BZL Lauterbach in cooperation with FEHR (Association of Electronic and Information Technology Hesse/Rhineland-Palatinate). The winners of the competition received 700€ as first prize, 500€ as second and 300€ as third. The KNX […]
10th KNX Award Ceremony Honours KNX Projects from all Over the World

Proud winners receive awards during TOP Event at light+building trade fair The KNX Award Ceremony started out 18 years ago as a relatively modest event at a KNX trade fair stand; since then it has metamorphosed into a spectacular party – the “TOP Event”, part of light+building, the world’s biggest trade fair for light and […]
KNX Userclub Austria Invites You to its Club Night in May 2014
We invite you warmly to a first KNX User Club theme night in 2014! The theme night will be on Thursday the 8th Of May from 15.00 clock in Hangar 7 Wilhelm-Spazier-Strasse 7A, 5020 Salzburg. Agenda: 15:00 management by the Hangar 16:00 KNX presence detector and range expansion of Züblin 17:15 basalts Asano KNX Multiroom […]
Building Controls Show Offers Access to Industry Leading Experts
The Building Controls Show opens its doors for the fourth year running at Sandown Park this October with a number of new product launches set to take place on the show floor. Plans for yet another exciting and informative seminar programme are also underway, offering visitors free access to the industry’s leading experts. Members of […]
Light+Building 2014 Sets New Record with 211,500 Visitors from 161 Countries

Following exhibitor and exhibition space records, Light + Building 2014 sets a new visitor record with over 210,000 people at the fair Internationality up again – almost one in two visitors from outside Germany Light + Building once again provided an impressive demonstration of its role as the world’s leading trade fair for lighting and […]
Light+Building Announces Almost 7% More Exhibitors for 2014
Light+Building 2014: “The world’s leading trade fair for energy efficiency” Almost seven percent more exhibitors: the world’s leading trade fair for lighting and building-services technology with 2,458 manufacturers The public debate about the shift away from nuclear energy is very much slanted towards the use of renewable energy and critical features, such as investment costs, […]
Light+Building 2014 Offers Extensive Programme of Events Revolving Around the Motto ‘Explore Technology for Life’
At Light+Building, the world’s biggest trade fair for lighting and building-services technology in Frankfurt am Main from 30 March to 4 April, the international industry presents new products for lighting, electrical engineering, house and building automation and software for the building industry. In addition to the extensive spectrum of products being shown by the 2,458 […]
ZVEH and ZVEI Present Energy Efficiency Awards at Light+Building 2014
Organiser: Central Association of the German Electrical and Information Technology Trades (ZVEH – Zentralverband der Deutschen Elektro- und Informationstechnischen Handwerke) and German Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry (ZVEI – Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V.) The focus of the competition is on the use of international standards for building-services and building-system technology and the […]