New categories bring a breath of fresh air to the competition and call for entries with forward-looking technology for the construction industry to compete for one of the first places. Next year, the bauma Innovation Award ceremony will again ring in the trade fair week from 24-30 October 2022.

The period for entries has already started on May 3, 2021 and ends on 3 May 2022. All necessary information on the conditions of participation can be found at www.bauma-innovationspreis.de.

Candidates can submit their documents via a form in the web portal. To do justice to technical progress and social as well as political developments, the responsible members in the task force have revised the categories. They are:

·         Category 1: Climate protection

·         Category 2: Digitalisation

·         Category 3: Mechanical engineering

·         Category 4: Building

·         Category 5: Research

VDMA Construction and VDMA Mining, together with Messe München and the leading associations of the German construction industry HDB, ZDB and bbs, are conducting the multi-stage competition process and are hosting the awards ceremony in the Max Joseph Hall of the Munich Residence.