Stone and Concrete Giants Unite: UK Construction Week Expands Reach

The Stone Show & Hard Surfaces will co-locate with UK Construction Week in London from May 7-9, 2025, allowing exhibitors and visitors to benefit from the specialized stone focus as well as the larger construction event. Additionally, Concrete Expo will unite with The UK Concrete Show under one banner at the NEC in Birmingham on February 26-27, 2025, creating a single concentrated event serving the entire concrete market.

The organisers of The Stone Show & Hard Surfaces are pleased to announce they will be co-locating with UK Construction Week London, from 7-9 May 2025. Furthermore, Concrete Expo will be joining forces with The UK Concrete Show. This partnership will harness Media 10 and QMJ’s respective strengths in the build and design sector.

Taking place at ExCeL, London, UK Construction Week is the only event designed to cater for the whole construction supply chain.  It attracts over 21,000 visitors, alongside The Offsite Show and Grand Designs Live, making it the largest construction trade show in London, and is organised by the same team that also runs the highly successful Clerkenwell Design Week every year.

Richard Bradbury, Managing Director of The QMJ Group, Organisers of The Stone Show & Hard Surfaces explained: “Co-locating with UK Construction Week presents a fantastic opportunity for The Stone Show & Hard Surfaces to connect with a vast, high-quality audience of building professionals. It will allow exhibitors and visitors alike to benefit both from our specialist focus, and a wider construction event that delivers 300+ seminars, 20+ live demonstrations and 400 exhibitors.

“The Stone Show & Hard Surfaces will retain its unique focus with independent visitor registration and even more dedicated content over three days including: an insightful seminar programme; The Emerging Talent Awards; The Industry Choice Award for best stone project; the Stone Federation Village showcasing the best of UK stone; and much more.”

​Sam Patel, Divisional Director – Construction, Media 10, commented: “We at UK Construction Week are incredibly pleased to welcome The Stone Show & Hard Surfaces into the UK’s largest built environment trade show. The co-location is an exciting proposition for the architectural and design community, developers, fabricators, and contractors. I’m proud to be working with Richard and his talented team to help fulfil their ambition of growing their community, and building on what is already the market leading event for the sector.”

Concrete Expo to unite with The UK Concrete Show from 2025

​Media 10, organisers of Concrete Expo, are delighted to announce that the expo will be joining forces with The UK Concrete Show, with immediate effect.   Uniting under The UK Concrete Show banner, this will bring the whole industry together under one roof at the NEC, Birmingham from 26-27 February 2025.

Richard Bradbury, Managing Director of The QMJ Group, Organisers of the UK Concrete Show explained: “Following the success of the 2024 UK Concrete Show, which enjoyed significant exhibitor and visitor growth, we are excited to have this opportunity to expand the show further.  The acquisition of Concrete Expo allows us to deliver the event to even more visitors and exhibitors than ever before, accelerating our development plans for the exhibition. A range of new partnerships and visitor features will be announced over the coming months”.

Sam Patel, Divisional Director – Construction, Media 10, commented: “The industry benefits from this, as it creates a single, concentrated event that serves the whole breadth of the concrete market”.