Swissbau is the leading trade fair for construction and real estate in Switzerland. Every other year, Swissbau serves as a source of inspiration, exchange platform, and innovation radar for the entire Swiss planning, construction, and real estate industry. Swissbau consists of three components: the multi-industry fair, Swissbau Focus, and the Swissbau Innovation Lab. The multi-industry fair welcomes exhibitors with their products, services, and content, while Swissbau Focus centres around the event and networking platform, and, finally, Swissbau Innovation Lab is a platform for digital transformation.

The challenge

Swissbau requested both a website relaunch as well as the implementation of an event calendar, a logo wall, and an exhibitor and partner directory. As an experienced contact partner, the W4 team was happy to take on the conception and technical implementation of this project. For this purpose, the existing content management system, Drupal, was updated to the latest version.

The focus of the project was particularly on the implementation of an event calendar, in which it is also possible to search for specific events, dates, and topics via a filter menu. In addition, the individual detailed pages of the events can be accessed conveniently via the illustrated overview page. A camera icon shows which event has a live stream. This feature is accessible to registered users after logging in. In addition, after the events are over, the recordings are made available to all website visitors.

Furthermore, W4 has developed and set up an exhibitor and partner directory as well as a logo wall. The special feature of the exhibitor and partner directory is that the respective exhibitors can edit their presentations and contents independently via an intuitive front-end User Interface (UI). In this way, the exhibitor profile can be easily and conveniently expanded and filled with contact information, product range, contact persons, and downloads.

The new online presence does justice to Swissbau's range of products and services and presents the content in an ideal way. Of course, the contents of the website are created as a responsive web design and are thus displayed smoothly on all end devices.

Features

The main focus of the project was on:

• The development of an exhibitor and partner directory.
• The implementation of an event calendar that can be displayed in various ways.
  
   

Solution and realisation

For the technical realisation, we updated the content management system, Drupal. W4 acted as a full-service agency in this project: both the conception and the development, as well as the programming of the website, were handled by our IT and design experts.

Efficiency to success - agile project management

Using agile project management according to the SCRUM framework, W4 discussed the current status of the project with the client, set up sprints, and evaluated customisation requests. In this way, W4 was able to react flexibly to various requirements and challenges and to constantly optimise workflows.

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