Preparations are well under way in the lead-up to the Dubai World Expo 2020 as a “BusinessConnect” workshop was organized by Expo Dubai to illustrate the various stages of the project that will keep the organisers busy in the coming months. The workshop highlighted that the goal for these future months will be to seek out innovative structural projects to be developed alongside the three centre-piece pavilions for which designs have already been chosen. The buildings should evoke the Expo 2020 concept or manifesto of “wonderment”: i.e. that of an exhibition that creates in visitors indelible memories of a unique and unrepeatable experience while conveying messages related to the traditions and culture of the UAE. Robert Platt, coordinator of the Expo2020 Committee’s engagement team, pointed out that calls for tenders will be published periodically in 2016 and 2017 for architectural projects and engineering services of various kinds. Review of open tenders and presentation of proposals are subject to registration on the Dubai eSourcing Portal https://esource.expo2020dubai.ae/.