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Winners of 3rd annual Chicago Canstruction competition announced

CHICAGO — (JULY 29, 2009) - The 3rd annual Chicago CANstruction Competition successfully raised over 70,000 pounds of food for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. In addition, the Society for Marketing Professional Services donated $2,500 to the organization, both of which will help make significant strides towards feeding hungry people across Chicago.

The gala event on June 11 was attended by over 200 guests, and among them were guest celebrity guest judges Mitchell Obstfeld, President/Publisher, i4 Design Magazine; Jackie Koo, AIA, Koo and Associates and Chris Sowers, Meteorologist, Fox Chicago.

CANstruction is a design and build competition that benefits local food banks across the nation. This unique competition allows local architects, engineers and construction companies to create incredible structures using canned goods, while using their design skills to fight hunger. All of the canned goods used in the structures are donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS

JURORS' FAVORITE 
"CANtilever with Souper Graphics"
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP / Mortenson Construction

STRUCTURAL INGENUITY
"CANtilever with Souper Graphics"
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP / Mortenson Construction

BEST USE OF LABELS
"Hope"
TGRWA

MOST CANS (over 7,000!)
"Food Bank"
Eckenhoff Saunders Architects

HONORABLE MENTION
"This global eCANomy is fishy"
SmithGroup

HONORABLE MENTION
"Can I Have Another Scoop?"
Halvorson and Partners, OKW

LOCAL CHICAGO AWARD WINNERS
PEOPLE'S CHOICE
"HUNGER IS NO JOKE."
HDR Architecture, Inc.

AIA/SEAOI AWARD "MAKE NO SMALL CANS"
"CANtilever with Souper Graphics"
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP / Mortenson Construction

CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY AWARD "IN DEMAND"
"Put Out the Fire - End Hunger Now!"
RJN Group

This year's teams included:
Bailey Edward Design Inc.
BLDD / Gilbane
Booth Hansen
Bovis Lend Lease
BSA Lifestructures
Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
Epstein / Areotek
Firm
Gensler
Ghafari
HDR
Klein and Hoffman
Larson Engineering
Nagle Hartray Danker Kagan McKay Penney Architects
OKW Architects and Halvorsen Engineering
RJN Group
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Smithgroup
TJRWA
V3 Companies
Willis HRH

CANstruction once again ran in conjunction with The Merchandise Mart's NeoCon World's Trade Fair, the country's largest conference and exhibition of contract furnishings for the design and management of the built environment.

Canstruction is trademarked by the Society of Design Administration, and working in tandem with the American Institute of Architects, Society for Marketing Professionals, Merchandise Mart Properties and other members of the design and construction industry. For additional information about Canstruction please go to: www.aiachicago.org/canstruction.

The Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago's food bank, is a not-for-profit food distribution and training center providing food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community. The Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 600 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to almost a half-million adults and children every year. Last year, the Food Depository distributed more than 40 million pounds of nonperishable food and fresh produce, dairy products and meat, the equivalent of more than 84,000 meals every day. Innovative training programs and initiatives developed by the Food Depository also work to provide men, women and children with the tools necessary to break their individual cycles of poverty. For more information, log onto www.chicagosfoodbank.org or call 773-247-FOOD.

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