Cologne is investing—now is THE time for your trade fair presence

Cologne is currently experiencing one of Germany’s largest educational construction booms: over 200 school building projects are in planning, construction, or renovation. The city is investing massively in new learning environments, modern campus solutions, and sustainable educational infrastructure—with billions in funding over the coming years.

Exceptionally dynamic market

This creates an exceptionally dynamic market for companies in architecture, construction, building services, furnishings, digitalization, and sustainable planning.

Among the most important current projects are:

• New construction and expansion of Willy-Brandt-Gesamtschule with investments exceeding €129 million
• New educational campus models such as at Katharina-Henoth-Gesamtschule
• Several accelerated new school buildings via general and turnkey contractor models
• New grammar schools, comprehensive schools, and vocational colleges in rapidly growing districts such as Kalk, Deutz, and Ehrenfeld

Investment programs for infrastructure

In parallel, the city of Cologne is planning additional multi-billion investment programs for educational and public infrastructure. Particularly in demand are innovative solutions for:

• Sustainable and serial construction
• Learning space concepts and flexible interior architecture
• Digital school and campus infrastructure
• Energy efficiency and building services
• Sports and open space planning
• Modular expansion and interim buildings

The SCHULBAU trade fair in Cologne on September 30 and October 1 offers you the ideal platform to engage early with municipal decision-makers, planning firms, investors, and project managers—precisely at a phase when many projects are being tendered or prepared.

Seize the opportunity to position your company where the educational infrastructure of the future is being created.