Architects of all the world participate in the first edition of the Building Solutions World Congress

Construmat presents in his 18ª edition a big novelty: for the first time, the International Living room of the Construction of Fira of Barcelona organises a world-wide congress for reflexionar around the challenges to which have to face up the construction and the contemporary architecture, focalizándose very especially in the sustainability. The contest will gather in Barcelona to 65 national speakers and international that will expose practical solutions under construction sustainable and urban regeneration. Like this, the Building Solutions World Congress (BSWC) will give to know, of the 22 to 24 May in the frame of Construmat Barcelona, the best projects of the world in these matters grouped under the axles of innovation, sustainability and rehabilitation and energetic efficiency.

Under the steering of the exsecretario of the International Union of Architects, the architect Jordi Farrando, the Building Solutions World Congress articulates through the celebration of two big sessions plenarias and diverse reports and presentations to charge of prestigious architects.

Farrando Stands out “the transversal character“of the BSWC, that will allow”to treat on the thematic that, in these moments, centre the debate of the architecture and the contemporary construction”. The director of the Congress values also the singularity of the initiative: “we will bring to Barcelona the best projects of the world in urban regeneration and sustainability to be able to know closely the details of these works, how thought and how have built . Today, the architecture is global, with true opportunities to do things out of our borders. The market needs talent, innovation and creativity”, explains.

The first session plenaria, ‘Ports of the Mediterranean', will present diverse practical cases of the transformation of this type of infrastructures and his relation with the public space of the cities in which they find : the maritime front like spearhead of the urban and social regeneration.

In this day, coordinated by the Catalan architect Eduard Bru, prize FAD of architecture by his project of the Olympic Area of the Vall d'Hebron of Barcelona, will participate the Turkish Emre Arolat, prize Aga Khan of architecture in 2010 and responsible of several projects in Turquíal; the Italian Stefano Boeri, co-author of the reform of the ports of Génova and Marseilles and current councillor of Culture of the City council of Milan; and the Catalan Olga Tarrasó, Prize FAD of architecture by the remodelación of the Maritime Walk of the Barceloneta and Reward Decade by the coverage of the Round of the Mig in Barcelona.

The second session plenaria carries the title of ‘Latin America: re-inhabit the territory' and will spread the way in that it has resolved the dichotomy field-city in a region in which the peripheries are happening to reintegrarse in the urban fabrics.

The Catalan architect established in Mexico, Miquel Adrià, coordinates this session that has the participation of the Mexican Mauritius Rocha, awarded in two occasions in the Biennial of architecture of Mexico; the installed American in Venezuela Alfredo Brillembourg, winner of the Lion of Gold of the Biennial of Venecia of 2012; the Chilean Germán of Sol, author of the pavilion of Chile of the Expo 92 of Seville; and the Madrilenian Fermín Vázquez, with works in Barcelona and Brazil.

The Congress complete with the parallel sessions in which they will present diverse practical cases in the fields of the innovation, the sustainability and the rehabilitation and the energetic efficiency. Between them, they stand out the project of urban rehabilitation of Baghdad (Iraq), the sustainable building of the Andalusian Agency of the Power or the new headquarters of the City counci