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Bilbao Exhibition Center (BEC)
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Description
BEC is much more than a fair and congress center: it is versatility, it is innovation. With an average of 160 events and 1 million annual visitors, its facilities are transformed every day, inspired by any type of need. A space of 170,000 m2 for everything and anyone.
Its facilities incorporate very innovative construction elements, which allow the best attention to all users, making participation in the different events that make up its calendar more comfortable and pleasant.
Without barriers or obstacles and with an average height of 18 meters, BEC has an exhibition area of 150,000 square meters, distributed in 6 pavilions without columns that facilitate the assembly and disassembly of stands. In addition, it has other outstanding spaces, with their own names, such as the BIZKAIA ARENA multipurpose pavilion, with a capacity for 20,000 people, and the BEC CONVENTIONS congress center, with 18,000 square meters, as well as parking for 4,000 vehicles.
The Bilbao Exhibition Center is a large-scale, contemporary venue designed to accommodate high visitor flows and events of diverse typologies. The spaciousness of its areas, the absence of architectural barriers in the exhibition spaces and the flexibility of its facilities allow for comfortable use of the venue. However, as accessibility conditions may vary depending on the type of event, the specific setup and the services contracted, it is recommended that each visitor, according to their specific accessibility needs, contact the event organiser or the venue in advance to confirm access conditions and available support services.
Features and services
Accessibility policy
- Is there an accessibility certificate?
- No
- Is there a dedicated printed accessibility plan?
- No
Communicationo adaptation
- Are magnetic loop systems available?
- Yes
Personal Assistance and lending of technical aids
- There is a service for lending technical mobility aids
- Yes
- Required personal assistance services are available
- No
Environment accessibility
- Is the establishment in a location with significant urban barriers or where there are problems to get access to motor vehicles?
- Yes
- Can the establishment be accessed with a motorised vehicle?
- Yes
Public transport
- Availability of public transport
- Yes
- Type of transport
- Bus
- Line:
- Bizkaibus: 3136
- Kbus: Urbana de Barakaldo
- Distance: 200 m
- Line:
- Subway
- Line: 2
- Station: Ansio
- Distance: 400 m
- Bus
Parking
- Parking available inside
- Yes
- Parking spaces reserved for PRM in the public space
- Yes
-
Own indoor parking spaces
- Are there any appropriately marked reserved spaces?
- Yes
- Difficulty of access and mobility inside
- No
-
Parking spaces on public roads
- Are there any appropriately marked reserved spaces?
- 3
Entrance to the establishment
- Entrance(s) accessible for PRM
- Yes
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Recommended main entrance
- Access to the building from the public space (level)
- Zero level
- Type of door
- Pressure
Indoor circulation
- Main aisle width of at least 1.80 m
- Yes
- Secondary aisle width of at least 1.20 m
- Yes
- Inside doors of at least 90 cm
- Yes
- Floor surface with guiding strips and orientation systems
- No
Information desk
- Is part of this 0.70 - 0.85 m high?
- Yes
Vertical mobility
- Floors
The establishment has more than 1 floor
WC
- There is at least 1 service that can be considered as PRM accessible
- Yes
- Access door
- width of ≥ 0.90 m
- Outward opening sliding or swing door
- Yes
- You can make a 1.50 m circle inside
- Yes
- Washbasin without a base. 0.80M high
- Yes
- Adjustable height washbasin
- No
- Single lever or push button tap
- Yes
- Toilet height of 0.40 - 0.50 m
- Yes
- Support rails in the restroom
- Yes
- Two bars. At least one is folding
- Yes
- Distress call system
- Yes
- Free front space of 0.80 x 1.20 m for all toilets
- Yes
Conference hall
- Access to the venue without barriers
- Yes
- Minimum width of the entrance door: 0.90 m
- Yes
- Aisle width > 1.80 m
- Yes
- Spaces reserved for wheelchair users
- Yes