Big 5 Construct Saudi is the largest construction event in the Kingdom, organised by dmg events and held at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Centre. Check the organiser’s own site for the current edition’s dates before fixing a build schedule.
SP – Smart Powers designs, fabricates and installs custom stands for Big 5 exhibitors from our own factories in Riyadh and Jeddah.
Why this show is different to build for
Your visitors at Big 5 are contractors, engineers and specifiers. They read a stand the way they read a building: they look at the joint, the weld, the edge, the finish. A construction audience notices build quality faster than any other audience at any other show — and judges the exhibitor by it.
That raises the standard on exactly the things a client never sees in a render. Ground and polished welds on visible steel. Panel joints that close. Edges detailed deliberately rather than covered with a standard trim. It is the show where an in-house joinery and metalwork operation earns its keep.
Heavy product, real loads
Construction exhibitors bring weight — machinery, material samples, full building assemblies, working demonstrations. That is a floor-loading and structural question before it is a layout question, and it has to be resolved with the venue in the submission rather than discovered on install day.
The Riyadh Front venue
Riyadh Front sits at ROSHN Front, north of the city and close to the airport road. We know the site: we delivered the aluminium, canopy and cladding package at ROSHN’s Sedra community, as specialist subcontractor to main contractor Shapoorji Pallonji.
What we deliver for Big 5 exhibitors
- Concept, 3D visualisation and technical drawings
- Structural documentation and the dmg events submission package
- Fabrication in our own factories — structure, joinery and metalwork, finishing
- Product display and demonstration platforms rated for real loads
- Signage and brand production
- Transport, installation, supervision and dismantle
Frequently asked questions
Can you build a platform for heavy machinery?
Yes. Loads are calculated and the structure is engineered before fabrication, and the documentation goes into the venue submission. This is standard scope for us, not an exception.
How long before the show should we start?
Six to eight weeks from approved concept for a custom build. Big 5 sits in a period when fabrication capacity across Riyadh tightens, so earlier is materially better.
Do you handle the organiser’s technical submission?
Yes — prepared to the specific manual for the show. See venue approvals in Saudi Arabia.
Is an upgraded shell scheme enough for our first year?
Sometimes, and we will say so. It depends on footprint and objective — we set out the decision in custom stand or upgraded shell scheme.
Send us your hall, stand size and what you are exhibiting — get in touch.