www.worldwatchweb.com - The optimisation process for the “Basel Exhibition Center” project has been successfully completed. The new hall complex by architects Herzog & de Meuron will be open in time for BASELWORLD 2013. A total of CHF 430 million is to be invested in the project as a whole.

The revision of the “Basel Exhibition Center” project compiled by architects Herzog & de Meuron has been successfully completed. It has proved possible to attain the objectives, with the specified cost ceiling being observed and the architectural concept maintained. And the optimised new hall complex project still satisfies the stringent demands of the BASELWORLD Watch and Jewellery Show.

The cost ceiling for the overall project – the new hall, plus all the additional sub-projects, including preparatory work, removals, provisional measures and management etc. –now stands at CHF 430 million.



The new hall has a floor plan of some 220 by 90 metres and a height of 32 metres. With the new complex, the exhibition site in Basel will have a gross exhibition surface of 141,000 square metres in all, thus satisfying the operational requirements for the World Watch and Jewellery Show. The basic structural concept and the technical fittings (load-bearing capacity, supporting-pillar configuration and media grid, etc.) for the new hall have been designed along the same lines as for the existing Hall 1.

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