SHOW PREVIEW
FSB and AQUANALE
THE BI-ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TRADE
SHOW FOR AMENITY AREAS, SPORTS AND
POOL FACILITIES TAKES PLACE IN COLOGNE,
GERMANY FROM 28-31 OCTOBER
ntering its fourth decade, the bi-annual International
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Trade Fair for Amenity Areas, Sports and Pool Facilities
(FSB) has evolved into a unique, international platform
for the sports and leisure sector, with 55 per cent of
its amenity area, sport and pool facility exhibitors and 60 per
cent of its visitors attending from overseas.
Sponsored by the International Association of Sports and
Leisure Facilities (IAKS) and encompassing the aquanale event,
this year’s show will take place across 50,000sq m of the
Cologne Exhibition Centre.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The IAKS Congress, which includes the presentation of the
International Olympic Committee (IOC)/IAKS Award and the
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)/IAKS Distinction for Artificial turf is one of the major growth industries in sports
sports and leisure facilities, will take centre stage during the
show’s comprehensive congress and forum programme. Wellness and the Federal Association for Sauna Construction
Over the past 40 years, more than 700 experts have and Steam Baths. Other topical swimming pool issues for dis-
given lectures on themes covering the planning, construction, cussion will include safety, technology and energy efficiency.
modernisation and management of sport and leisure facilities Offering something for anybody connected to the leisure
at the IAKS Congress and ‘sustainability’ will be an important industry, other conference highlights will include the City in
issue at this year’s event. A hotly debated subject in year years, Transformation show, the Design for Everyone Congress, the
sustainability has been aimed at a balanced ecological, eco- presentation of the German Playground Award 2009 and the
nomic and social approach to development. This is becoming International Student Competition organised by the European
more significant through the intensified climate protection Waterpark Association (EWA). The Synthetic Turf Forum, creat-
debate and new requirements have arisen for the construction ed by companies in co-operation with the European Synthetic
and operation of sport and leisure infrastructure. Turf Organisation (ESTO), is a new addition to this year’s event.
Crossing over to the wellness and swimming pool indus-
try, ‘sustainability’ will also be a hotly debated subject at the FACT FINDING
third Cologne Swimming Pool and Wellness Forum – an event The ESTO Synthetic Turf Forum will highlight issues on the
supported by the Federal Association of Swimming Pools and planning, construction and maintenance of synthetic turf and
visitors will be able to witness what FSB organisers
describe as the ‘largest turf exhibition in the world’ when the
whole of Cologne Exhibition Centre’s Hall 11.3 will be a sea of
green. Information given by exhibitors and during the forum
will address topics on the production techniques, quality stan-
dards, market potential, construction and operation costs, as
well as the FIFA quality concept and the benefits of synthetic
turf for women’s, girls and youth football.
Focusing on a different leisure sector, this year’s interna-
tional student competition for students in the faculties of
architecture and interior design will be themed ‘Spa Worlds’.
Organised by the European Waterpark Association (EWA), en-
trants have been asked to design visions of pool and swimming
pleasure of the future, based on the pool and bathing cultures
of the past. Inspiration for this topic includes domes from the
Ottoman empire and Japanese Onsen pool-cleansing rituals.
Visitors can discuss production techniques, quality standards,
operation costs and maintenance with artificial surfaces exhibitors
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.FSB-COLOGNE.COM
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