Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia 2027Exhibitor guide for Houston: booth costs, key dates, deadlines

Start with the space: TPS charges $4,200 per 10×10 for 2027, so a 10×20 is $8,400 before anything is built. A Purple 10×20 rental then runs $7,500 to $15,000, and a custom 20×20 island $50,000 to $120,000. What moves the number here is the equipment: guards, drip-tray plinths, rigging and drayage on heavy skids.

In full by May 15, 2027. TPS adds a 20% late fee after that date and can release unpaid space. A written cancellation through July 1, 2027 gets half the money back; after July 1 nothing is refunded. We plan design sign-off for early August, after your footprint is fixed.

Yes. Our TPS rentals pair a reusable aluminum frame and fabric graphics with a plinth or skid base engineered for your equipment, lockable storage for spare seals and literature, LED lighting and flooring, which TPS does not include with the space. One fixed proposal also covers freight, the Freeman orders, installation and teardown.

Under Texas right-to-work law, people on your own payroll may assemble a TPS booth at the GRB using their own tools. Freight between the dock and your space still moves through Freeman as drayage. Our project manager can lead the build while your technicians commission the equipment.

TPS allows demonstrations inside your booth by qualified personnel only. Rotating equipment must sit behind transparent shields, other moving parts need barriers or a 3-foot setback, and machines using oil or other liquids need drip trays. Volatile oils and gases are banned, and flammable-liquid equipment may need a City of Houston permit.

You do, billed by weight through Freeman at the rate in the exhibitor kit. Our GRB planning figure for 2026 and 2027 is about $95 per hundredweight, 200 pounds minimum, with surcharges when freight shows up late or off target. Pump skids are heavy, so drayage gets its own line on our proposal.

In priority order. TPS assigns each company a time on its Alpha List for a selection session, with separate Turbo and Pump lists, and you must pick at your slot or send a proxy form. In 2026 TPS also ran an onsite booth selection session for the next show during exhibit days. Dismantling before the close can cost three priority points.

The same plinths, shields and graphic walls travel well to OTC at NRG Park, IMAGE at the George R. Brown or the Motion + Power Technology Expo in Detroit a week later. We store the kit between shows, refresh graphics for each audience and rebuild the guard layout when a different machine travels.

We do. When Purple builds your booth, TPS treats us as an exhibitor-appointed contractor, so we send the EAC form with our liability certificate before the August 20, 2027 deadline. Then we order Freeman rigging, carpet and material handling, plus Smart City power and internet, and copy you on each confirmation.

Short courses run Monday, October 18, 2027, and the technical sessions and exhibition run Tuesday to Thursday, October 19–21, 2027. Daily exhibit hours for 2027 are not confirmed yet; in 2026 the exhibits closed at noon on the final Thursday, when move-out began.

TPS returns to Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center, the two-level downtown hall at 1001 Avenida De Las Americas. The Hilton Americas-Houston connects to the center by skywalk and held the TPS hotel block and hospitality suites in 2026. Trains on METRORail stop at its Convention District station.

TPS reported more than 4,800 attendees and 320 exhibiting companies at its 2025 edition. In 2023 it counted 4,945 verified attendees, 323 exhibiting companies and 53 countries across 109 technical sessions, and in 2022 it counted 3,815 verified attendees and 274 exhibitors. Attendance for 2027 is not confirmed yet.

The Turbomachinery Laboratory, part of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and the Texas A&M University System. Its Exhibitor Services team in College Station sells the booths, runs the selection sessions and writes the rules, and advisory committees of industry engineers shape the technical program.