Exhibition Stand Builders in London
We design and build exhibition stands for the London shows, then handle the drawings, organiser approvals, logistics and the install. Bespoke wooden construction and DUM FLEX™, managed from London by the same team that stands on site during the build.
Get a quote →Stands we have built on London show floors
Travel, aviation, construction, intellectual property, airport technology, government. They range from a 27 m² product-display stand to a 450 m² national pavilion, and every one is a project you can open and look at.
See every project, or read on for how a London build actually runs.
London is not one venue, and the rules change with the hall
A stand that passes at one London venue is not automatically buildable at the next. Height caps, rigging rights, floor fixings and vehicle access are set show by show, by the organiser and the venue together. The first thing we do on any London project is read your show's manual, before anything gets drawn.
ExCeL London
Most of our London work happens here: World Travel Market, UK Construction Week, MRO Europe, Passenger Terminal Expo, the INTA Annual Meeting. Submission deadlines, rigging rights and vehicle access all work differently here, and they are set out show by show. The venue detail has its own page: exhibition stand builder at ExCeL London, and the venue publishes its own exhibitor guidance.
Olympia London
Its Grand Hall is a listed Victorian structure with a barrel-vaulted glass roof, which makes rigging and height a different conversation from a modern box hall. We delivered the 450 m² national pavilion for the Government of Türkiye at London Tech Week here, hosting 55 companies inside one structure. Olympia has been through a major redevelopment, and its halls now run from the Grand Hall and National Hall to the West Hall and a new convention centre, so the current hall specification is worth checking for your show.
The rest of the London calendar
London’s show calendar runs well beyond the two big halls: the Business Design Centre in Islington, and hotel and conference venues across the city. If your show is in London and you have the organiser’s manual, send it over. We can tell you what the space allows before you commit to a design.
Bespoke or DUM FLEX™
We build both, and which one fits comes out of your brief.
Bespoke
Custom wooden construction, built around your design rather than fitted to a system. When the stand is the brand statement, an open hotel lobby, a national pavilion or a double-deck structure, Bespoke is where that freedom sits. See how we build Bespoke.
DUM FLEX™
A reusable aluminium frame finished with tensioned fabric graphics that leave no profiles on show, plus custom-built elements where the design needs them. It installs quickly, which matters on a short London tenancy, and our frame system is reused from show to show with fresh graphics each time, stored and maintained by us in between. See how DUM FLEX works.
Not sure which fits? Send the brief and the honest answer comes back quickly. If the ambition and the budget do not meet, you hear it now rather than three weeks in.
From brief to the morning the doors open
Our project manager owns the project from the first call to the last truck leaving. The same person is on site during the build, which is the part that decides whether problems get solved or reported.
Brief and design
We ask what the stand has to do before we ask what it should look like: the show, the space and its open sides, who you need to meet, what has to happen on the stand, and the budget it has to live inside. Design follows from that, and it is designed to your show's rules from the first sketch.
Drawings and approvals
Scaled drawings, structural calculations where the build needs them, an independent engineer's check for complex structures, and the submission through your organiser on their deadline. Risk assessments and method statements are part of the package, not an extra you chase.
Production
Everything that can be finished off site is finished off site, through our controlled production network. Days on a London hall floor are short and expensive, so they go to assembly and finishing detail.
Install, handover, dismantle
Tenancy at a big London show gives contractors a window measured in days. We book the vehicle slots, run the build, and check lighting, graphics, AV and power before handover. Handover is agreed in writing for your show's build-up and lands ahead of the venue's own deadline for a finished hall, so your first walk onto the stand is a walk onto a finished one. After the show we dismantle, clear the space and take the reusable elements back into store.
Most of the brands we build for in London are not based in the UK
Airlines, hotel groups, manufacturers, exporters and government delegations who fly into London for the show. For us that is the normal case.
Brief and design run remotely, on calls scheduled around your hours. Our project manager owns the project end to end and is on site through the build. We can receive your graphics, products and displays in advance and have them placed on the stand before you land. Approvals, rigging orders and vehicle bookings are handled here, in the language and on the timeline the venue expects.
The project is planned so that you can arrive shortly before the show opens and walk onto a stand that is already finished, with the handover time agreed in writing for your show's build-up.
Exhibiting in London: the questions we get asked
How much does an exhibition stand in London cost?
It depends on the size, the build approach and how much of the structure is custom. A 27 m² product-display stand and a 450 m² national pavilion are different projects with different budgets, and we have built both in London. Send us the show, the stand size and the budget you have in mind, and you get a straight answer on what that budget builds.
How early should we start?
For a space-only stand at a major London show, three to four months out keeps every option open: heights, rigging, complex structures. Shorter is sometimes workable depending on scope. We will tell you honestly what the remaining time allows.
Do you handle the organiser and venue paperwork?
Yes. Drawings, structural calculations, the independent engineer's check where a complex structure needs one, rigging orders, vehicle bookings, risk assessments and method statements. These are set by each show's organiser and they change between editions, so your organiser's manual is always the source of truth and reading it is the first step on every project.
We are not based in the UK. How does that work?
It is how most of our London projects run. Brief and design happen remotely on your hours, our project manager owns the project end to end, production runs through our controlled workshops, and the stand is ready for use when you arrive. We can also take delivery of your graphics and products in advance and place them before you land.
Can you reuse a stand across several London shows?
With DUM FLEX, yes. Our frame system is reused between shows with fresh graphics and an adjusted configuration; we store and maintain it in between. If you exhibit several times a year, that shows up in what each project has to cover.
Builders, contractors, makers: is there a difference?
In practice, very little. Exhibition stand builders, exhibition stand contractors and exhibition stand makers describe the same job, and show manuals use the words interchangeably. What does vary between exhibition stand companies in London is how much of the work sits with the company you hire. On our projects it is all of it: we design, produce, submit the drawings, run the organiser approvals and install, with one project manager across the whole job.
Do you only work in London?
No. London is where the company is led from and where a good part of the work happens, and we deliver across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. The same project manager travels to the international sites.