The real estate industry faces growing challenges, including land scarcity, increased financing costs, ensuring energy availability, and stricter ESG requirements. These factors contribute to the increasing complexity of real estate decisions. To meet this need for exchange and cooperation, BUILDINX – INNOVATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES will take place from 17th to 19th November 2026 at Messe Dortmund.
The fair covers the entire value chain of innovative properties for the logistics, industrial and data centre sectors. The range of exhibitors illustrates how sound market knowledge, capital, development expertise and technical infrastructure are brought together to create viable projects. This enables direct exchange between users, investors, developers, financiers, consultants and construction partners.
Market Expertise Across All Project Phases
The start of every real estate project – be it in logistics, industry or data centres – requires suitable space, reliable market data and a viable usage concept. The specific requirements vary depending on the asset class. For logistics and industrial properties, transport links, plot configuration and expansion options are crucial criteria. For data centres, aspects such as energy supply, grid integration, resilience and scalability are added. Exhibitors such as Logivest and CBRE provide insights into these areas. Logivest specialises in logistics properties and locations, advising on leasing, sales, new builds, site analyses, transactions and investment matters. CBRE offers comprehensive, internationally positioned consulting for commercial properties and investments and has a dedicated service area for data centres.
The breadth of project development is visible through other exhibitors. GARBE combines development, management and investment for logistics, light-industrial and technology properties, including the development of data centres. FOX Real Estate delivers flexible and sustainable properties for industry, trade and logistics, both as new build projects and through the revitalisation of existing properties. Baytree, a Europe-wide developer, contributes its expertise for industrial and and logistics properties in various markets. These offerings show owners, users and capital partners diverse paths to future-proof spaces.
The realisation, financing and infrastructure aspects are also comprehensively represented. BREMER offers project development and planning, turnkey construction, existing building works and property-related services for industrial and commercial projects. BF.infrafinance complements this with whole-loan financing for logistics project developments in Germany and supports financing concepts from land acquisition to completion. HUAWEI contributes expertise in Digital Power and solutions for data centre infrastructure and critical power supply. For real estate decision-makers, particularly in industrial and data centre projects, this is relevant, as available, resilient and efficient energy supply increasingly co-determines feasibility, investment requirements and operating concepts. The examples presented demonstrate how market knowledge, development, construction, capital and technical infrastructure interact along the entire value chain at BUILDINX.
Accompanying Technical Programme on Market Situation
The BUILDINX technical programme analyses the current market situation and derives concrete fields of action from it. Oliver Rakau from Oxford Economics will speak in his keynote “Europe's Sick Man on the Road to Recovery?” about the prospects for the German economy and their relevance for industry, logistics and real estate. A panel with representatives from GARBE Regeneration, Business Metropole Ruhr (BMR), the German Association of Cities and Towns (DStGB) and the Logistics Real Estate Initiative (Logix) will discuss “Industrial Properties of Tomorrow: What is Currently Driving the Industry”, focusing on land development, the further development of existing properties and the integration of municipal requirements.
- —Capital market issues are the focus of the panel “Logistics Real Estate Investments in Germany – Stable, Strategic, Future-Proof?”. Here, perspectives from JLL, UniCredit and GARBE converge, moderated by Sebastian Betz, LIP Invest.
- —The presentation “ESG in Existing Stock: The New Logix Guideline – Findings and Classifications” deals with the decarbonisation of existing logistics properties.
These programme items address key topics that significantly influence current acquisition, development and portfolio decisions. In addition to the exhibition and technical programme, BUILDINX offers space for exchange, including at the BUILDINX Get-Together on the first day of the fair in the Executive Lounge, which is open to exhibitors and visitors.
