A stand’s eight-week journey.
From the brief table to the night shift, from the handover walk to the dismantling after the fair — the whole process, told as it really happens on site. Coffee included.
- 8 weeks
- Average project
- 72 hours
- Build in the hall
- 6 hours
- Dismantling
- 0
- Late handovers
8 weeks before the fair
Everything starts with a brief
Three questions sit on the table: Why should a visitor step in? What should they experience inside? What should they remember on the way out? Drawing does not start before the answers are clear — our one strict rule.
6 weeks before the fair
The handshake and the first cut
One of the three written budget options is signed; production drawings reach the workshop the same day. With the first CNC cut the project leaves the paper — the countdown is official.
4 weeks before the fair
Workshop days: the stand rises for the first time
The structure is fully assembled in the workshop, the lighting is tested and every surface passes colour control. If you want no surprises in the hall, you have them in the workshop — that is what we do.
1 week before the fair
The truck sets off
Every panel is labelled, inventoried and loaded in sequence — the first crate to open in the hall is the last one on. On international jobs we also run customs and the ATA Carnet.
72 hours before the fair
The night shift: the city sleeps, the stand rises.
The countdown starts the moment the hall doors open. The first 24 hours are floor and structure, the second surfaces and power, the last graphics and fine work. An architect is always on site; every gap between drawing and hall reality closes within minutes.
02:10
The neighbouring stand came asking for tape. They left with tape, a ladder and a thermos of coffee. Neighbourliness matters at a fair.
03:40
The hall power went down. The generator was running in 12 minutes and the light test carried on. Even plan B has a plan B.
05:55
As the sun rose, the last joint was aligned. Our site chief’s classic line: "Now it is right." Said once per project, never early.
- 214 cups
- Coffee consumed
- 8.400+
- Screws driven
- 41 km
- Walked in the hall
- After the fair
- Sleep
* Field notes from an average 120 m² build. Coffee count may rise with the season.
Opening day
You smile; we watch from the side
The handover walkthrough happens one day before opening; on opening morning none of us are visible at the stand — but the duty crew is in the hall and responds to any fault within two hours.
4 days after the fair
Dismantling is part of the job
Dismantled in six hours, material separated, the space left clean. At closing we clear the hall while you catch your flight.
Let the next night shift be for your stand. Share your fair date; we come back within 48 hours with a written three-option budget.
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