Aluprof Support Dublin’s Architecture & Building Expo 2025

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By Wojciech Brożyna - MD Aluprof UK - The Architecture & Building Expo 2025 (ABX 2025) took place at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) in Dublin on 8-9 October 2025. The event served as a key meeting point for architects, architectural technologists, building professionals and specifiers from across Ireland and beyond.

Aluprof booth at an industrial expo displaying aluminum systems. Visible text promotes fire-resistant and low-carbon products. Clock in background.

The show featured a broad exhibition scope from smart-home systems and modular building to insulation materials, security systems and façade solutions. This years event was run alongside the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Annual Conference.

Man in a dark blazer with arms crossed, standing against a gray wall with architectural drawings. Plant partially visible. Confident expression. — *Wojciech Brożyna - MD Aluprof UK*

The conference theme was "Cities, Towns and Neighbourhoods”, according to the organisers, the accompanying show returned “with a focus on innovation and sustainability” for its 2025 edition. Visitors could engage with live talks, training hubs and demonstrations of new building technologies, allowing attendees to see how the Construction Industry is evolving in response to climate-challenges and regulatory change. Additionally, the networking opportunities were significant with the expo bringing together exhibitors and buyers, offering a platform for partnership building and sourcing of products and services from the Irish market.

ABX 2025 also offered a strong educational and business development component. Workshops and seminars looked at topics such as building automation, prefabrication, and green materials. For professionals in the architecture and construction sectors, the event provided a rich environment to stay up to date with trends, forge new relationships, and explore new suppliers and technologies all in one venue. In short, the expo offered the ideal mix of exhibition, education and networking for those working in building and architecture in Ireland in 2025.

Spacious expo hall with booths and attendees, overhead view, red chairs in foreground, industrial ceiling, banners and lights throughout.

The “Building Change” student lead zone at the event offered a dynamic, interactive showcase of how the construction and architecture industry is being reshaped. Located on the balcony area of the Main Hall at the venue, this space featured the specially designed “Constructive Interference” exhibition, an immersive installation of forward looking building technologies, innovative materials and collaborative design strategies. Aluprof exhibited on stand D5 at the exhibition under the banner of “Fire Safety and Sustainable Innovation,” using their attendance to communicate both technical solutions, fire-rated framing and glazed screens, façade and window systems and the wider sustainability story the business has promoted at other 2025 trade fairs, such as low-carbon production, recycled content and energy efficient product design.

Group of four people discussing around a door exhibit at an indoor trade show. Signs and displays are visible in the busy background.

Alongside a full sized sample of Aluprof’s newly launched ‘MB-79N CSF’ (Casement Slim Frame) the stand displayed corner samples of their ‘MB-SLIMLINE’ a slim steel looking system, the ‘MB-104 Passive’ a Passivhaus certified window and door system, a ‘MB-79N’ door corner sample, the ‘MB-78EI’ fire rated system and a sample of the companies class leading curtain wall system, the ‘MB-SR50N Efekt’. Aluprof was delighted to learn that their MB-79N CSF product was shortlisted for the ‘Architects' Choice’ award for the ‘Best Construction Product’ and ‘Best Exterior Product’ categories during the show.

This year, the Prime Minister of Ireland, Micheál Martin TD, addressed the conference, underscoring the national significance of Dublin Expo 2025 and Ireland’s ambitions for a more sustainable and technologically advanced built environment. His speech highlighted the Government commitment to driving green innovation, strengthening construction productivity, and investing in resilient public infrastructure while encouraging stronger collaboration between policymakers, industry leaders, and the wider supply chain to support Ireland’s future growth and competitiveness.

Historic stone building with a banner reading "Welcome, Business Attendance Only, Architecture + Building Expo." Gray car parked in front.

Feedback from architects who attended the Architecture & Building Expo 2025 was broadly positive. Many praised the event’s fresh emphasis on sustainability, smart materials and cross-disciplinary collaboration, noting that the “Building Change” zone offered a strong platform for exploring emerging technologies. However, some architects also noted room for improvement in terms of deeper technical sessions and more manufacturer presence.

Overall, the consensus was that the Expo successfully brought together the architecture and construction communities in Ireland, provided valuable networking opportunities and helped set the tone for new ways of working in the Industry Aluprof UK have been supporting specifiers in the UK and Ireland for over fifteen years with advanced systems that include, high performance windows doors and facade systems.

Many UK and Ireland based fabricators and installers supply these systems and are on hand to offer surveys and cost analysis as to what improvements can be made with likely paybacks.

Further information about the wide range of systems and specification support is available through the company website at aluprof.co.uk or for home improvement at aluprofliving.com and direct from their UK head office in Altrincham by phoning +44 (0) 161 941 4005.