Elemental London 2026 | TradeShowIntel

Notable exhibitors

Companies exhibiting at Elemental London 2026 include Baxi Heating UK Ltd, Cartesian, CIPHE, General HVAC Solutions Deutschland and KGN Pillinger.

Baxi Heating UK Ltd
Cartesian
CIPHE
General HVAC Solutions Deutschland
KGN Pillinger

Event overview

Overview

elementalLONDON is the UK trade show for the people who make buildings perform: building services engineers, MEP consultants, contractors, architects, facilities managers and housing providers. The 2026 edition runs 25-26 November at ExCeL London, where elementalLONDON incorporates CIBSE Build2Perform and is co-located with London Build, so one free badge covers construction, building services and sustainability across the same halls.

Across the three pillars - commercial buildings, industrial facilities and large-scale residential - exhibitors show heat pumps, HVAC, controls, building-management systems, renewables, retrofit and building-performance services. The organiser programmes 900+ speakers across 15 stages and projects 450+ exhibitors and 25,000+ professionals; those are organiser projections for a show that has not yet run, not audited totals.

The commercial case is specification reach rather than consumer volume. Buyers arrive with live projects and named product requirements, and the co-located CIBSE content brings the consultant and engineer audience that signs off system choices. Budget for a UK stand, a UK sales team on the floor and follow-up inside a week.

TL;DR

125-26 November 2026 at ExCeL London, doors 09:30-17:30 Wed and 09:30-16:30 Thu.
2Free visitor registration covering both days; no paid tier published.
3Incorporates CIBSE Build2Perform and is co-located with London Build under one badge.
4Organiser projects 450+ exhibitors, 900+ speakers across 15 stages and 25,000+ professionals.
5Three pillars: commercial, industrial and large-scale residential building efficiency.

Why visit

One free badge, two days, and three co-located audiences at ExCeL. You can sit in CIBSE Build2Perform sessions that count toward CPD, compare heat pump, HVAC, controls and retrofit suppliers side by side, and meet contractors and consultants from London Build who are procuring for live schemes. The floor is walkable in a day; two days is enough to cover the stages and a second supplier round.

Why exhibit

The audience is specification-led: engineers and consultants who write product into projects, plus the contractors who install it. A stand buys face-to-face time with UK specifiers, a CIBSE-linked programme beside you and the London Build contractor crowd next door, without the cost of a consumer show. Suppliers with a UK distributor or installer network can convert stand traffic into pipeline inside a quarter.

Attendees, exhibitors & solutions

Who this event is for

Visitor profile

Typical attendee groups you can expect to meet.

Building services and MEP engineers specifying HVAC, heat pumps and controls

MEP consultants, architects and design practices

Mechanical and electrical contractors and installers

Facilities, energy and estate managers for commercial and industrial portfolios

Developers, house builders and housing associations delivering large residential schemes

Local authority and public-sector sustainability leads

Exhibitor profile

Main supplier and exhibitor segments present at the show.

Heat pump, boiler and HVAC plant manufacturers

Controls, BMS and smart-building software vendors

Ventilation, air-quality and cooling specialists

Renewables, energy storage and district-energy suppliers

Insulation, glazing, fabric and retrofit product suppliers

Building-performance consultancies and energy-services companies

Product categories

Key solution areas showcased across the event.

Heat pumps and low-carbon heating

HVAC plant, cooling and ventilation

Building-management systems and controls

Smart building and energy monitoring

Renewable energy and energy storage

Retrofit, insulation and building fabric

Water, air quality and indoor environment

Energy services, commissioning and compliance software

Location & Facilities

Venue

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Halls & areas

ExCeL London Exhibition Halls (2026 Hall Allocation Not Published)

ExCeL London

ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London E16 1XL, United Kingdom

Entrances & gates

West entrance

Main exhibition halls

Published visitor entrance, closest to Custom House station on the Elizabeth line and DLR.

Facilities

Parking

Multi-storey car park beneath the venue; approach via Royal Victoria Dock Road or the A112.

Parking: On-site car park under the venue; drivers must approach via Royal Victoria Dock Road or the A112. 2026 tariffs not published.

Gate: Custom House station (Elizabeth line and DLR) is the closest stop; the West entrance is the published visitor entrance.

Attend

Entry & tickets

Free registration

Event days & opening times

DayOpening hours

Wed 25 Nov:9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Thu 26 Nov:9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Visitor (free registration)
Official site invites visitors to register for a free ticket covering both days.

Ticket info

Ticket notes

Free two-day visitor ticket; no paid tier published. Registration opens through the official site.

Who runs the show

Organisers

Nineteen Group

Organiser

Website

What's on

Programme

Topic tracks

Commercial BuildingsIndustrial BuildingsLarge-Scale Residential

Co-located events

London Build 2026

Free with ticket

Co-located construction show at the same venue; one badge covers construction, building services and sustainability.

ExCeL London, 25-26 November 2026

CIBSE Build2Perform

Free with ticket

Incorporated knowledge programme with CPD-accredited content across the show stages.

Inside elementalLONDON at ExCeL London

Co-located seminars

CIBSE Build2Perform stages

Free

CPD-accredited conference content running across the show stages.

15 tracksAcross the elementaLONDON stages

How the last edition performed

Previous edition

Last edition

2025

Completed

Exhibitors: 200

Edition #: 1

This edition

2026

Visitors: 25,000

Exhibitors: 450

Next edition

2026

First co-located edition with London Build; organiser projects 450+ exhibitors, 900+ speakers across 15 stages and 25,000+ professionals. Stand rates, floor plan and conference timetable were unpublished at the time of research.

Single badge covers elementalLONDON, CIBSE Build2Perform and London Build Larger combined exhibitor floor Construction contractor audience added to the specification audience

Edition recap

The 2025 debut edition of elementalLONDON ran 19-20 November 2025 at ExCeL London. Pre-show coverage stated more than 200 exhibitors and over 200 speakers across five theatres, with 4,000 attendees expected; post-show trade coverage reported record-breaking attendance across the London Build and elementalLONDON editions but printed no elementalLONDON visitor total.

For 2026 the show moves into a co-location with London Build and absorbs CIBSE Build2Perform.

New this edition

1
Co-location with London Build
London Build moves to ExCeL London and shares the dates, creating one floor covering construction, building services and sustainability.
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2
CIBSE Build2Perform incorporated
The CIBSE knowledge programme is incorporated into elementalLONDON rather than running as a separate event.
Source

Testimonials

We think it is the go to place for end-to-end collaboration, from suppliers to the consultants who specifiers, right down to the contractors. elementalLONDON gets everyone in one room so we can listen to the issues and provide solutions for those issues.
Chris Goggin · Operations Director · Rinnai · 2025

elementalLONDON gives us the opportunity to showcase our products to consultants and mechanical engineers who are willing to find out more about the product in depth.
Klaudia Szweda-Adelaja · Air Con Product Manager · Samsung Climate Solutions · 2025

There were a lot of quality manufactures with plenty of innovations and solutions to help us all to reach our net zero goals.
Graham Patterson · Dutypoint · 2025

Impact

A bigger and stronger platform

The 2026 co-location is the significant change. Sharing ExCeL with London Build adds contractors, house builders and developers to a footprint that was previously building-services-led, and folding in CIBSE Build2Perform keeps the consultant and engineer audience inside the same badge. The practical effect for an exhibitor is a bigger, broader floor with more project-side visitors and a busier hall, which raises the value of a pre-booked meeting schedule and lowers the value of waiting for passing trade.

Audience quality

High-value decision-makers

The audience is specification-led rather than consumer: engineers, consultants, contractors, facilities and estate managers, housing providers and local authorities arrive with live projects and product questions. The 2025 attendee mix has not been published for elementalLONDON, and the widely quoted contractor/architect/developer split belongs to London Build 2025, so treat any precise mix figure as indicative only.

Exhibitor outcomes

Real business growth

ROI depends on UK specification reach. A supplier with a distributor or installer network should expect qualified enquiries from engineers and contractors and closeable pipeline within one to two quarters; a 9 sqm shell stand plus two staff and two nights in London is a mid four-figure USD commitment before freight, which is modest against a single specified project. Suppliers without UK representation should treat the show as market research, not a sales channel.

Intelligence

Market context

Key market insights, trends, news and related events to help you understand the bigger picture.

United Kingdom

Why it matters

UK building efficiency is a policy-driven market: heat pump uptake, the Future Homes Standard, EPC and MEES rules for commercial lettings, and net-zero estate plans are forcing building owners to re-specify plant and controls. elementalLONDON sits inside that buying cycle and, from 2026, shares a floor with London Build, putting contractors, house builders and consultants in the same hall as the building-services specification community.

Industry trends

Key trends shaping this market and its wider industry.

Heat pump and low-carbon heat transition

Replacing gas plant with heat pumps in commercial and large residential buildings is the main specification battleground, with refrigerant choice and cascaded systems now central to plant-room design.

What it changes: Heat pump makers and their supply chains are the core exhibitor category at the show.

Source

Retrofit at portfolio scale

Owners and housing providers are retrofitting existing stock rather than only building new, which pulls in fabric, controls and commissioning expertise alongside plant.

What it changes: Retrofit buyers arrive with existing plant constraints and staged budgets.

Source

Co-located construction and services buying

London Build moving to ExCeL alongside elementalLONDON in 2026 puts contractors and house builders on the same floor as building-services specifiers.

What it changes: One badge reaches both the design and the delivery side of a project.

Source

Smart buildings and data-led energy management

BMS, sub-metering and analytics are being sold as the route to verified savings and compliance reporting rather than as standalone hardware.

What it changes: Controls vendors compete on data and integration, not just hardware.

Source

Market news

Latest updates from across the market.

Big-name exhibitors sign up to elementalLONDON

Read

London Build and elementalLONDON close 2025 editions

Read

UK building-services and construction circuit

Late November sits after most autumn construction shows and before the December close-down.

elementalLONDON is one stop on a UK calendar of building-services, construction and sustainability shows; matching dates avoids two trips to London in a quarter and lets a team split coverage.

25–26 Nov 2026

London Build 2026

London, United Kingdom

Same venue and dates; one badge covers both floors.

November 2026

elementalLONDON 2026London Build 2026

Both events share ExCeL London on 25-26 November 2026, so travel and hotel nights are shared.

Co-location and sister-show relationship from the official site and organiser news post; dates for other circuit events were not verified in this run.

Plan your trip

Travel & logistics

Local currency · GBP

Arrival airports

Choose from the following airports, with convenient access to the event and venue.

LCY

London City Airport

Closest airport; DLR to Canning Town then one stop to Custom House.

About 5 km

to venue

15-20 minutes by taxi or DLR

by car

LHR

London Heathrow

Elizabeth line to Custom House without changing trains.

About 35 km

to venue

45-60 minutes by Elizabeth line and DLR

by car

LGW

London Gatwick

Thameslink or Southern to central London, then Elizabeth line east.

About 50 km

to venue

60-75 minutes by train

by car

Hotel tiers

A range of accommodation options near the venue and across key areas.

budget

Custom House, Canning Town and Stratford

USD 110–160 / night

Limited-service chain hotels within two to four stops of the venue; planning band, not a quote.

mid-range

Canary Wharf and Royal Docks

USD 160–240 / night

Full-service hotels on the Elizabeth line and DLR, 10-15 minutes from ExCeL.

premium

Canary Wharf, the City and Tower Bridge

USD 260–400 / night

Four- and five-star options for hosted buyers and senior teams; allow 20-25 minutes to the venue.

Local transport

Get around the city with these convenient transport options.

Elizabeth line

Estimated costGBP 2.80-5.60 per single, zone 1-3

Best forCustom House to ExCeL West entrance

Fastest rail option from central London and Heathrow.

DLR

Estimated costGBP 2.80-4.00 per single

Best forCanning Town or Tower Gateway to Custom House

Serves the West entrance directly.

Taxi or ride-hail

Estimated costGBP 25-45

Best forCentral London to ExCeL

Traffic on the A13 and Royal Victoria Dock Road can add 20 minutes at peak.

Car

Estimated costParking tariff unpublished

Best forA112 or Royal Victoria Dock Road to the on-site car park

Only these approaches reach the car park under the venue.

Plan your trip

Visa & entry documents

Check the latest visa requirements and entry guidelines before travelling.

Visa not required

ATA Carnet: accepted

Type	Who needs it	Fee	Processing
Standard Visitor visa	Nationalities without a visa exemption or ETA eligibility, including much of Africa, Asia and the Gulf	$160.00	Typically 3 weeks; priority options cost more
Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA)	Visa-exempt visitors from countries covered by the UK ETA scheme	$25.00	Usually minutes to a few days
Visa-free entry	Visitors whose nationality permits short business visits without a visa or ETA	—	None

Many nationalities can visit the UK for business without a visa; the ETA scheme now covers a growing list of visa-exempt countries, so check the current rule for your passport before booking.

ATA carnets are accepted for qualifying temporary exhibits; list each item and keep the carnet with the freight forwarder.

Official visa page

Weather

Late November is cold and often damp: typically 5-11°C, short daylight and a real chance of rain. Pack a warm waterproof coat and shoes you can stand in for a full day.

Plan for the climate

Check temperatures and pack accordingly

Venue connectivity

Mobile coverage is good across the venue; Wi-Fi at ExCeL is available but stand connectivity should be ordered with the venue rather than assumed.

Ride-hailing

Taxis

Public transit

Car rentals

Cultural notes

Useful information to help you have a smooth and respectful visit.

Business dress

Smart casual is normal on a UK exhibition floor; a jacket works for supplier meetings.

Meeting etiquette

Meetings are short and diary-driven. Book slots in advance and open with the specification question rather than a company history.

Currency and tipping

Card payment is near-universal. Tipping of 10-12% is normal in restaurants when service is not included.

Practical guides

Visitor & Exhibitor Essentials

Everything needed to arrive prepared, navigate the event, and make the visit productive.

Flights

Destination: LCY

Fly into London City if your schedule allows; otherwise Heathrow plus the Elizabeth line is the simplest route to Custom House.

Visa

UK Standard Visitor visa for most non-exempt nationalities; ETA for many visa-exempt visitors; check gov.uk for your passport.

Estimated cost: USD 160 visa / USD 25 ETA (planning estimates)

Processing: About 3 weeks for a visa, usually days for an ETA

Carry the event invitation or badge confirmation and an employer letter at the border.

Official

Transport

Get to the venue and around the city with these options.

Airport → venue: London City to Custom House is 15-20 minutes by DLR or taxi; Heathrow to Custom House is a direct Elizabeth line run of about 45 minutes.

Hotel → venue: DLR or Elizabeth line to Custom House, then the West entrance; allow 20-30 minutes from Canary Wharf hotels.

Ride-hail: Ride-hail and black cabs are available but surge around show close; pre-book for Tuesday evening arrivals.

Public transit: Pay-as-you-go contactless on the Elizabeth line and DLR; no paper ticket needed.

Parking: On-site car park beneath the venue, reached only via Royal Victoria Dock Road or the A112; 2026 tariffs unpublished.

Weather

Plan and pack for the event climate.

Month: November

Temperature: 5-11°C

Seasonality: Short daylight, frequent drizzle and gusty winds off the docks.

Packing: Warm waterproof coat, layers, comfortable shoes, umbrella and a spare pair of socks for a wet walk from the station.

Plan your trip

Planning

Best day to visit: Wednesday 25 November 2026

Wednesday is the opening day: both halls are fresh, senior engineers and consultants usually attend day one, and the floor stays open until 17:30. Thursday closes at 16:30 and is better for a second pass or follow-up meetings than for a first sweep.

T-14

Register for the free ticket on the official site and download the confirmation — Registration is free and covers both days.

T-10

Book hotel near Custom House, Canary Wharf or Stratford and check the cancellation terms — Late November is busy in the docks.

T-7

Build a short list of exhibitors and pre-book stand meetings — Two days is tight when London Build shares the floor.

T-3

Check visa or ETA status and pack the invitation letter — UK border staff may ask for the purpose of the visit.

T-1

Plan the journey to Custom House and the West entrance, and print or download the floor notes — Allow 30 minutes from the station to the hall.

Sample visitor itinerary

Route-optimised day