Concept

FSB will from now on be staged in Halls 7, 9 and 10 of the Cologne fair grounds. Presented in Hall 7, directly adja­cent to the pool-themed areas at the co-located event aqua­nale, the Inter­na­tional Trade Fair for Sauna, Pool and Ambi­ence, the public space/playground equip­ment area is an exci­ting and comple­men­tary segment, not least for opera­tors of both public and leisure pool faci­li­ties and water parks.

Span­ning in total around 90,000 square metres of exhi­bi­tion space, both events, FSB and aqua­nale, turn the fair grounds in Cologne into the most important loca­tion for amenity area plan­ning and design, the archi­tec­ture and manage­ment of sports faci­li­ties, play­grounds, sports equip­ment, exer­cise areas, recrea­tional faci­li­ties, as well as the public and private pool sectors. The world-renowned IAKS Congress, along with further congresses and specia­lised events rela­ting to “Public space, rrban design and the plan­ning, cons­truc­tion and manage­ment of sports faci­li­ties” under­line the high level of FSB as the leading inter­na­tional trade fair. 

In the sports faci­li­ties and equip­ment section in Halls 9 and 10, FSB can once again count on its trusted content part­ners, the German Olympic Sports Confe­de­ra­tion (DOSB), the BSI (Bundes­ver­band der Deut­schen Sport­ar­tikel-Indus­trie/­German Sports Equip­ment Industry Asso­cia­tion) with its sports and gymnastics equip­ment quality assu­rance asso­cia­tion, as well as the Euro­pean Synthetic Turf Council (ESTC) and its US coun­ter­part, the Synthetic Turf Council, the Inter­na­tional Basket­ball Fede­ra­tion (FIBA), and FIFA. Here, too, almost all inter­na­tio­nally renowned suppliers will be exhi­bi­ting. 

Even more program

The trade fair presence of the BSFH (Bundes­ver­band für Spiel­platz­ge­räte- & Frei­zeit­an­lagen-Hersteller e.V./Federal Asso­cia­tion of Play­ground Equip­ment and Leisure Faci­li­ties Manu­fac­tu­rers) at FSB 2017 in Cologne is domi­nated by the motto “The schoo­lyard is beco­ming a place of exer­cise”. For two days of the trade fair, a programme of lectures and work­shops will take place – led by the BSFH, the trade journal “Play­ground & Land­scape” and Koeln­messe.

In colla­bo­ra­tion, FSB and STADTund­RAUM will also present work­shops, congress topics, the renowned Planner Forum, and an attrac­tive special event focused on current issues such as mobi­lity, urban plan­ning and deve­lo­p­ment, the deve­lo­p­ment of urban neigh­bour­hoods, multi­ge­ne­ra­tional commu­ni­ties, acces­si­bi­lity and areas for exer­cise and recrea­tion. Further­more, on 7 November 2019 the BDLA Day NRW, orga­nised by the North Rhine-West­falia section of the Fede­ra­tion of German Land­scape Archi­tects (BDLA), is also being staged again this year.

FSB 2019 will once again feature the networ­king area of SPORTNETZWERK.FSB, an initia­tive by Koeln­messe and the online cost calcu­lator for sports faci­li­ties, Sport­stät­ten­rechner. The networ­king area, which has been desi­gned as an indoor arena, is where industry decision makers will be able to meet repre­sen­ta­tives from sports clubs, asso­cia­tions and fede­ra­tions, sports centre opera­tors, specia­list plan­ners and the mana­gers of muni­cipal sports depart­ments.

In light of the considerable numbers of exhi­bi­tors in the arti­fi­cial turf segment parti­ci­pa­ting in the event, FSB is intro­du­cing the RECYCLING Forum for the first time. High­lighting the issue of sustaina­bi­lity, it will focus on the life-cycle perspec­tive of arti­fi­cial surfaces as part of a special event, a forum and an action area.