Project Lebanon 2009 opened its doors again this year at BIEL Exhibition Center to gather local and international engineers, architects, building materials specialists, investors and other key market players under one roof. Exhibitors came from Italy, Germany, France, Iraq, Switzerland and other countries looking to establish partnerships and enter the Lebanese and regional markets. “Lebanon is back in business,” said Fadi Jreissati, vice president of operations at IFP Group, Project Lebanon’s organizers. The event’s packed parking lots, entrance queues and the rush on the stands were proof that Jreissati was right. “We have an 80 percent increase in size,” he said. “We have sold every single meter we have, and if we had known that elections would not have a negative effect on the exhibition, we would have opened the whole tent.” The fact that the exhibition takes place in June has not helped it much recently. Last year, the
