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The only stand at the fair judged by its own product
Exhibiting at Light + Building 2028 is a peculiar exercise: your product is the light, so the stand is both the container and the demonstration. Every ambient decision either shows your fittings properly or works against them, and a hall full of competitors all doing the same thing makes the margin for error very small.
What Light + Building is and when the 2028 edition opens
Light + Building is the leading international trade fair for lighting and building services technology. It is biennial, and after the March 2026 edition the next one runs from 5 to 10 March 2028 at Messe Frankfurt. It brings together lighting technology, luminaires and components, building and home automation, electrical installation and smart connectivity, with an audience of architects, lighting designers, electrical trades, system integrators, wholesale and retail. Because it only happens every two years, the edition carries the weight of two years of product development, and stands are correspondingly ambitious. It also means the hall is full of manufacturers who have all had twenty-four months to prepare, so arriving with the previous stand and a new catalogue is immediately visible.
Turnkey service for your Light + Building stand
The same team runs the project from the first sketch to the empty plot. A single contact covers design, workshop, transport and installation, including the electrical order and the rigging requests, which for a lighting stand are not a formality but the backbone of the whole build.
Design
Collaborative briefing, a strategy built around your visitor and a photorealistic 3D render of your space.
Manufacturing
In-house joinery and manufacturing with premium, high-quality and sustainable materials at our Barcelona workshop.
Build & install
Transport and coordination to Messe Frankfurt, on-site build and dismantling by our own crew, and dedicated support throughout the show.
Projects that back every stand we build
Twenty years of custom stand design across Europe, including stands where the lighting plan was drawn before the walls, which is the only sensible order for this sector.
What your Light + Building stand needs, depending on what you make
Four kinds of exhibitor at Light + Building, four different lighting problems.
Decorative and architectural luminaires
Your fittings have to be the brightest thing in the space. We design the ambient level deliberately low and build the structure in dark, matt finishes, so your product reads as light rather than competing with the hall.
Technical and outdoor lighting
What you sell is performance, not appearance. We build controlled test conditions into the stand, with surfaces and distances that let a specifier actually judge a beam instead of taking a datasheet on trust.
Building and home automation
The product is invisible and the demo is everything. We integrate working scenario panels where a visitor triggers a sequence and watches the building respond, which is the only way this technology sells in ninety seconds.
Components and electrical installation
Your buyer is a wholesaler or an installer with a catalogue in mind. We build sample walls organised by family, at a height where a component can be picked up, with a meeting table for the annual pricing conversation.
Two years between editions changes the maths
Because Light + Building is biennial, a disposable stand is the most expensive option available. We build modular, reusable structures designed to be stored, inspected and refinished across the two-year gap, so the investment covers two editions rather than one and the second build focuses on the new product range instead of on rebuilding walls.
Frequently asked questions about Light + Building stands
What lighting and building technology manufacturers ask us before booking their space in Frankfurt.
When does Light + Building 2028 take place?
Light + Building 2028 runs from 5 to 10 March 2028 at Messe Frankfurt. It is a biennial fair: the previous edition was held in March 2026, so there is no edition in 2027.
How dark can the stand be?
As dark as your product needs, within the hall rules. We design the ambient level around your fittings, usually well below the average stand, and use matt finishes and baffles to stop neighbouring light spilling into your space.
How much power will we need?
More than you would expect, and it has to be ordered in advance. We calculate the total load and the number of circuits from your fitting list and submit the request to Messe Frankfurt with the design, not after it.
Can you rig heavy fittings and overhead structures?
Yes. We confirm rigging points and weight limits with the venue before the design is closed. On a lighting stand the suspended element is usually the main feature, so it is the first thing we check rather than the last.
What does your Light + Building stand design and build service include?
A turnkey service: lighting-led design and 3D render, manufacturing in our own workshop, transport to Frankfurt, build, dismantling and technical support during the six days of the show.
Can you test our fittings before the stand travels?
Yes, and on a lighting stand it is the main argument for building in our own workshop. We mount your fittings on the real structure and check beam, spill and colour before anything is loaded onto a lorry. A stand that is assembled for the first time in the hall gives you one night to discover the same problems, with no workshop behind you.
Light + Building 2028 takes place at Messe Frankfurt
Light + Building gathers the lighting and building technology sector at Messe Frankfurt from 5 to 10 March 2028. The stand is built in our Barcelona joinery, tested with your fittings mounted on it, and then taken to Germany by the same crew that assembled it the first time.
Exhibition stand design and build in Frankfurt
A lighting stand at Messe Frankfurt needs far more power and far more rigging than an average build, and both are requested on deadlines that close months ahead. We handle those requests as part of the project, because a rigging plan submitted late is the single most common reason a lighting stand has to be redesigned.
Contemporanea Eventi builds your Light + Building stand
March 2028 sounds far away, and for a stand of this kind it is not. The lighting plan, the rigging and the power all have to be decided long before the build. Tell us what you are launching at Light + Building 2028 and we will start with the light, not the walls.