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News for Immediate Release
Contact: Marie LeVan Lick
 Phone: 717-635-2835 Cell: 717-599-2959, mlick@kandwengineers.com
OR Lauren Herman
Phone: 717-234-7041 Cell: 717-943-4756, lauren.herman@alexanderbuilding.com

CANSTRUCTION® COMPETITION
CREATES SUCCESS FOR PROJECT SHARE AND LOCAL FOOD BANKS

Immediate Release - March 31, 2008

Imagine…. one can of food resulting in 30,000 cans of food provided to local food banks and pantries – all from the generous donations of Canstruction ® design/build teams, local architectural, engineering and contracting firms, and sponsorships from Giant Food Stores, ABC27, and the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Harrisburg.  Canstruction®, a charity committed to ending hunger held its 2nd  Annual 2008 Central Pa Design/Build Competition during the recent Pennsylvania Home Show at the PA State Farm Show Complex.  The results were a huge success.

30,000 cans of food were donated to Project S.H.A.R.E. who distributed them to 188 pantries located in Dauphin, Cumberland, Lancaster, York and Lycoming Counties who report serving an average of 3,000+ households per month. An additional $13,000 was distributed to the food banks.

Sixteen (16) Central PA architects, engineers, contractors including two student programs comprised the ten (10) competing teams who designed and built structures made entirely from full cans of food, design and structural ingenuity. These colorful and creative structures included the Capitol building, a suspension bridge, a hot air balloon, an American flag, a covered bridge, an ice cream sundae, Bart Simpson, sheep in a barnyard, a Hershey kiss and bowling pins.

A team of expert professionals in their industries judged and presented awards for the best and brightest design structures at the Canstruction® Competition Awards presentation at the C. Ted Lick Wildwood Conference Center on the HACC Campus.

Structure Awards included:
Best Meal:               “Ewe Can Help Stop Hunger–Hunger is Baad!”,
Lancaster Country Day School & Studio 5 Architects, LLC
Best Use of Labels:    “A Capitol CANtribution”, RETTEW
Structural Ingenuity:   “Suspension of Hunger”, Central PA ACE Mentoring Program
Juror’s Favorite:        “Strikes Against Hunger”, Buchart Horn/BASCO Associates
Honorable Mentions: “Bridge over “CANdied” Waters”, Larson Design Group;
and “Americana”, First Capital Engineering, Inc.

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Those participating in the design/build competition included ACE Mentoring Program (York County), Alexander Building Construction (Harrisburg), AUM Architecture (Harrisburg), American Society of Highway Engineers Harrisburg Section, J. Michael Brill & Associates (Mechanicsburg), Buchart Horn/BASCO Associates (York), C.S. Davidson, Inc. (York), Carlisle High School (Carlisle), Cumberland Geoscience (Carlisle), First Capital Engineering (York), K&W Engineers and Consultants (Harrisburg), Larson Design Group (Williamsport), Murray Associates Architects (Harrisburg), Lancaster Country Day School (Lancaster), Studio 5 Architects (Lancaster), and RETTEW (Lancaster).

The winner of the People's Choice award was also presented to RETTEW for “A Capitol CANtribution” at a recent SMPS Central PA Healthcare Industry Design Trends Seminar held at the Bent Creek Country Club, Lititz, PA. This award was selected by public ballots from over 35,000 community visitors who attended the recent PA Home Show.
Canstruction® is sponsored by the Central PA Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services, The American Institute of Architects, and The Society of Design Administration, and the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Harrisburg.
Canstruction® is a national charity, working in partnership with professional organizations in the design/build industry. Trademarked by the Society for Design Administration (SDA), Canstruction® events attract over eighty (80) cities in the USA and Canada to host annual competitions.

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