| Next edition | Jun 2026 · ExCeL London |
|---|---|
| Starting price | £3,950+ |
| Venue | ExCeL London |
| Next edition | June 2027 |
| Attendees | 7,500+ |
| Exhibitors | 300+ |
| Quote turnaround | 48hr |
Reset Connect London Stand Builders: ExCeL Logistics, a Sustainability Audience, and What Wins Investment
Reset Connect London is the UK's leading sustainability, climate-tech and green-investment event and the flagship of London Climate Action Week, held each June at ExCeL. It gathers upwards of 7,500 sustainability, energy, finance and policy professionals — corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, innovators and start-ups — around the practical and commercial pathways to net zero.
The audience changes the brief in a way no other show does quite so sharply: this is a crowd whose entire purpose is sustainability, and they will absolutely notice if your stand is a wasteful, single-use build behind a green message. A Reset Connect stand has to be credibly, demonstrably sustainable in its own construction, while clearly communicating your solution and giving you space for the investment and partnership conversations the show exists to create.
Get that right and the stand reinforces your message; get it wrong and a knowledgeable audience quietly discounts you. We build for both the message and the meetings.
For an exhibitor that means substance and self-consistency: the solution has to be real and clearly explained, and the stand carrying it has to live up to the same standard, because this is the one audience guaranteed to scrutinise both. The organisations that land here treat the build as part of the message, not a backdrop to it.
Building at ExCeL London: the rules that shape your stand
ExCeL is a pillar-free hall with around 10m of clear internal height, but your stand does not get all of it. For space-only stands the working height limit at most ExCeL shows is 6m, and anything ExCeL classes as a complex structure — double-deckers, heavy suspended elements, long unsupported spans — triggers a formal sign-off you need to budget time for, not just money.
Complex designs must be submitted with engineering calculations applying a minimum factor of safety of 1.5. An independent structural engineer reviews the drawings and, if satisfied, issues a Certificate of Structural Adequacy at design stage, which releases your Certificate to Build; the same engineer inspects the stand on site during build-up before you can open. Miss a calculation or submit late and you do not build.
Overhead rigging is controlled tightly: all primary rigging to the ceiling is installed exclusively by ExCeL's own team, ordered through ExCeL's webshop and confirmed around 28 days before tenancy for the advance rate. Lightweight static items hang from drop wires up to 50kg; heavier loads are separate, costlier orders.
The smaller rules catch people out too: platforms above 170mm need ramped, accessible access; solid walls along an open gangway edge are generally not allowed; only water-based paint may be used on site; and every structure must be fully self-supporting. We design to all of this from the first sketch and submit the venue paperwork, so the build you approve is the build that opens.
Build the stand the way you'd ask others to build
At a net-zero event, how the stand is made is part of what you're saying. We build on reusable, modular systems rather than one-off structures, specify recycled and low-waste materials where the design allows, choose finishes that are demountable and reusable rather than glued and skipped, and design the stand to be stored and refreshed for future editions. The result is a build you can honestly describe as low-waste — and one that supports, rather than undercuts, your reason for being there.
We can document the build's reusable, low-waste specification for your own sustainability or ESG reporting, turning the stand itself into a small, real proof point in front of exactly the audience that values it.
What a winning Reset Connect stand needs
Beyond the build, the stand has to communicate and convene. We design a clear, honest statement of the solution you offer and the problem it solves, space to demonstrate it where you can, and a comfortable setting for the substantive conversations this audience has — with investors, corporate buyers and policy people who want evidence, not slogans. For start-ups pitching for capital, we make sure there's a credible, professional space to host an investor conversation.
This is a sceptical, well-informed crowd alert to greenwash, so credibility is everything: real data, clear claims and proof you can defend in a detailed conversation do the persuading.
We also design the stand to start the right conversation rather than just gather a crowd: clear framing of who your solution is for, so the investors, corporate buyers and policy people who can act on it stop, instead of a stream of admirers.
What a Reset Connect stand costs
A turnkey stand typically runs roughly £3,950–£12,500 for a compact custom build, £12,500–£28,000 for a mid-size build with demo and meeting space, and £28,000 and up for a flagship build. The quote is turnkey — design, build, graphics, lighting, delivery to ExCeL, install, dismantle and the venue paperwork are all included — and the reusable, low-waste construction is designed to pay back across editions rather than cost more up front.
Because a reused modular stand is both lower-cost and lower-carbon over a few editions, the economics and the message point the same way here — the sustainable choice is usually the sensible budget choice too.
What you don't pay extra for is also accounted for: material handling, electrical and rigging are in the turnkey figure, so there are no surprises — and the reusable build means the second and third editions cost less again.
Designing for investors, corporates and policy
Reset Connect's audience spans finance, corporate sustainability teams, policymakers and innovators, so the stand has to work for more than one visitor: a clear headline for the passer-by, demonstrable proof for the technical or corporate specialist, and a calm setting for an investor or partnership conversation. We design those zones deliberately rather than hoping one open space serves everyone.
Where your solution is best understood in use, we build the demonstration in, because at an event about real-world impact, showing the thing working is far more persuasive than describing it.
Whatever the footprint, we protect a calm, credible setting for the investment or partnership conversation, because at Reset Connect the valuable exchanges are substantive and unhurried, and a start-up pitching for capital needs somewhere serious to do it.
Getting into ExCeL: build-up timing
Reset Connect sits in a busy June run at ExCeL during London Climate Action Week, so build-up slots, rigging and power book up early and late orders attract surcharges. We confirm your space-only window, order rigging and power at the advance rate, and crate to a slot that lands the stand finished and ready — and, in keeping with the show, we plan transport and waste to keep the build's footprint down.
Reusing your stand between editions
Reuse is the whole point at a sustainability show, so we design the stand as a multi-year, low-carbon asset: a modular core we store and refresh between editions, with graphics and demos updated for each year's solution. That keeps both cost and embodied carbon down, and we keep your specification on file so the next build starts from a known, lower-impact baseline you can stand behind.
It is also the most consistent way to keep your sustainability story credible year on year, since the stand can demonstrably improve its own footprint with each edition rather than starting over.
Next step for your Reset Connect London stand
Send us your space size, hall position and goals for Reset Connect London. You'll get a custom 3D concept and a fixed, all-inclusive quote within 48 hours — designed to ExCeL's rules, with structural sign-off built into the timeline if your design needs it. We build in-house and install at ExCeL London, so the stand you approve in the rendering is the stand that opens.
We also design and build exhibition stands for other major UK shows — see the full show calendar for energy & sustainability and beyond, all with the same in-house team, fixed all-in pricing and full venue paperwork.