With more than 250,000 trade visitors from all over the world, leading bi-annual international trade fair for architecture, materials and systems, BAU, is making a welcome physical return this year after the pause in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic and opens its doors mid-April.
Tarkett will be present with a booth demonstrating the brand’s long-standing and commitment to circularity and end-of-life recycling. The stand’s design will center on the company’s START/RESTART concept, highlighting the company’s dedication to eco-design and Cradle-to-Cradle® principles as well as its pioneering work on creating circular loops through Tarkett’s ReStart® take-back and recycling program visible in externally verified EPDs (Environmental Product Declarations).
This year, BAU will focus on the fundamental paradigm shift needed in the construction industry, say the fair's organisers. Growing concerns about the quantity of raw materials and natural resources it consumes, as well as wider global issues such as supply chain bottlenecks, mean it’s high time for the industry to transform from a linear to a circular economy, they believe. That’s why this year’s fair will also highlight “alternative building materials” and the way digital technology can change the construction industry.
Echoing these concerns, the Tarkett stand will champion circular materials in terms of both content and design, and much of the booth, including the material sample boards, the homogenous vinyl, linoleum and DESSO carpet tiles used for the flooring construction and for the walls of the structure, will, fittingly, be reused or recycled after the fair.
For every visitor to the Tarkett booth, the company will donate the equivalent of five minutes planting time to a charity helping to conserve and replant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea. The MANAIA project, founded by a marine biologist is supported by the renowned German Foundation for Marine Protection (Deutsche Stiftung Meeresschutz). With its campaign, Tarkett wants to help preserve seagrass beds as an effective carbon sink and important marine habitat. With every minute generated thanks to confirmed contacts at the stand, the company funds volunteer work in the Mediterranean: mapping seagrass meadows and planting new seagrass in places where it would otherwise be in danger of disappearing.
Come and visit Tarkett: hall 6, stand 303
Photographer: Christian Berges - Berges Media