Three days on BWT's stand in Lagos

Stand 2B13 in the Austrian pavilion carried two names: ASE Consultings x BWT. For three days it was ours. We ran it for BWT, the water treatment group from Mondsee, at the fifth edition of Big 5 Construct Nigeria, in the Landmark Centre in Lagos.

In Lagos itself we design water treatment for estates, and we are a BWT Partner for Nigeria, with a Lagos team that carries that work into projects across West Africa. Contractors, developers and distributors came to the stand at Big 5, and we took them through BWT's water treatment range.

Around us stood other Austrian companies, in a pavilion organised by ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA Lagos, the commercial section of the Austrian Embassy. Alongside the exhibition, its organiser, dmg events, ran certified talks on subjects from project management to sustainable materials.

One evening, ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA brought its exhibitors and local construction contacts together over dinner, and we joined the table. Fairs in Lagos, like fairs anywhere, do half their work after the halls close.

ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA Lagos wrote to BWT that the stand had been well looked after and had made many new contacts. In the weeks after Big 5 Construct Nigeria, six of the companies we had met there wrote to us.

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