Construction media
a3BAU
The most-read construction trade journal
For more than 50 years, planners and decision-makers in the construction industry have relied on a3BAU – high-quality reading for opinion leaders involved in the tendering and execution of building projects. Interviews, surveys, background stories, project presentations, case reports: everything that moves the industry, engagingly prepared and in tune with the times.
At a glance
- Frequency: 8 issues a year, four of them double issues
- Print run: 16,686 copies — ÖAK, print run, rolling annual average 2025
- Distribution: direct mail to the key decision-makers in the construction and real estate industry
- Target group: the construction industry, building trades and allied trades, architects, planners and chartered engineers, property developers, housing associations, the building materials industry and trade, the real estate industry, municipal building authority and works yard management, and building services and installation engineering
- Booking deadline: 20 to 21 days before publication
- Bookable: Print advertising · Advertorials · Special advertising formats · Digital
Media kit 2026
Formats, dates and prices as a PDF
The full topic plan, every format size and the 2026 rate card in one document.
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Formats and dimensions at a glance.
Dimensions and character counts are here; prices are in the media kit.
The 2026 publication schedule, with the editorial focus of each issue, is published in German — see the German page for this title.
Print advertising
- 2/1 double-page spread Type area 385 × 250 mm · bleed 430 × 280 mm
- 1/1 full page 185 × 250 mm · bleed 215 × 280 mm
- 1/2 page, portrait 90 × 250 mm · bleed 105 × 280 mm
- 1/2 page, landscape 185 × 125 mm · bleed 215 × 140 mm
- 1/3 page, portrait 58 × 250 mm · bleed 70 × 280 mm
- 1/3 page, landscape 185 × 83 mm · bleed 215 × 93 mm
- 1/4 page, portrait 43 × 250 mm · bleed 58 × 280 mm
- 1/4 page, landscape 185 × 62 mm · bleed 215 × 70 mm
- 1/4 page, two columns 90 × 125 mm · bleed 105 × 140 mm
Trimmed size plus 3 mm bleed. A placement surcharge applies to the inside front and inside back cover.
Digital
- Online, four-week run Billboard 1260 × 315 · Supersize Content 960 × 120 · Sticky Halfpage 300 × 600 · Sticky Skyscraper 160 × 640 · Medium Rectangle 300 × 300
- Online advertorial article image 1280 × 485
- Newsletter header ad and center ad, 600 × 200 each · event listing 300 × 100
The a3BAU newsletter goes to around 10,200 subscribers.
Advertorials
- 2/1 double-page spread max. 5,100 characters
- 1/1 full page max. 2,600 characters
- 1/2 page, portrait or landscape max. 1,600 characters
- 1/3 page, portrait or landscape max. 800 characters
- 1/4 page, portrait or landscape max. 530 characters
Character counts include spaces; fewer with more or larger images. Advertorials are labelled as advertising.
Special advertising formats
- Loose insert inserted loose, max. 205 × 270 mm
- Other formats on request from your contact
Frequently asked questions.
Frequency, target group, formats and contacts at a glance.