Case file 01 — International Congress · Exhibition
19th World Mining Congress
A world congress, built from bare ground in nineteen days.
- Client
- Organising Committee, WMC
- Venue
- New Delhi
- Edition
- 2003
- Footprint
- 18,000 m² built environment
The brief
An international mining congress with ministerial delegations from forty countries required exhibition halls, plenary and breakaway venues, and full delegate infrastructure — on an open site with no permanent services.
The build
- 01
Clear-span aluminium hangars erected as the primary exhibition halls, with engineered wooden flooring over levelled ground.
- 02
A soundproof, air-conditioned plenary hall seating the full congress, with dais and simultaneous-interpretation booths.
- 03
Central AC plant, power distribution and lighting run as a single site grid with redundant capacity for the inaugural session.
- 04
Registration, delegate lounges, catering courts and signage delivered by in-house crews to a protocol-approved layout.
The delivery
Handed over ahead of the inaugural, inspected and cleared for VVIP protocol, and struck down within seventy-two hours of the closing session.
Site record
▣ Swap: wide site photo, floodlit steel & aluminium
▣ Swap: interior of finished plenary
▣ Swap: crowded aisle with stall runs
▣ Swap: registration counters in use