ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CH2M HILL's
Albuquerque office recently
chaired the fourth annual Albuquerque Canstruction®
event with other local businesses and organizations to benefit
Roadrunner Food Bank of New
Mexico. Canstruction is a trademarked design-build
competition founded by the Society for Design Administration (SDA).
The theme for this year's event was "New Mexico Centennial" in
honor of the 100th anniversary of New
Mexico becoming a state. Held at Sandia Resort, each team
had a 10-foot-by-10-foot space and 8 hours to build structures from
nonperishable food goods (cans and boxes) they had collected or
purchased specially for their Canstruction project. The public was
invited to view the structures and vote for their favorite. In
keeping with the "construction" theme, each structure was
surrounded by orange barrels and yellow caution tape.
The Albuquerque Canstruction competition resulted in 34,580
pounds of food and more than $820
donated to Roadrunner Food Bank to benefit vulnerable populations
throughout New Mexico. "The
Canstruction event was such a tremendous success and a wonderful
kick off to our 2012 Holiday Food Drive activities. It is an honor
to receive the nearly 35,000 pounds of food on behalf of the nearly
40,000 hungry clients we help weekly," said Sonya Warwick, Communications Officer of
Roadrunner Food Bank. "Thank you so much to CH2M HILL, the
committee, the teams, judges and supporters that participated in
Canstruction. We are so grateful the time and energy that every
single person gave to make this annual event so successful.
The food collected during Canstruction provides important
life-changing meals for hungry children, seniors and adults across
New Mexico."
CH2M HILL teamed with AUI Inc., PR Newswire and Occam
Engineering – known collectively as "Albuquerque 'Dukes' It Out with Hunger" won
the Best Use of Labels Award for their baseball diamond-shaped
structure featuring the logo of the Albuquerque Dukes (the former,
local AAA baseball team and still a fan favorite). The three-sided
structure also pictured a baseball, bat, and the word "Dukes" with
a Zia symbol.
For the second year in a row, Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails
teamed with Steve Harris, P.E., of Renaissance Engineering LLC to
take the Jurors' Favorite trophy. Using various sizes of blue- and
brown-labeled cans, the girls built a version of the New Mexico
Centennial logo – a Native American clay pot with a large letter
"C" on one side.
The Structural Ingenuity award went to Bohannan Huston, Inc. for their structure
of hot air balloons floating past a city landscape. CDM Smith took
home the Best Display of Theme trophy for "Best Damstruction" –
their depiction of Elephant Butte
reservoir, dam and spillway, complete with sardine-can boats
"floating" on the "water." A 1950s-model Chevy cruising down Route
66 against a background of mountains – designed and built by staff
from Construction Reporter, Bradbury Stamm, Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
and Yearout Mechanical – was awarded the Best Meal trophy because
the products used in the structure could be used to make a complete
meal. The team also won the People's Choice award for the most cash
donations at the event – at a penny a vote! Cobb Fendley & Associates was awarded
Honorable Mention for their depiction of a vintage Volkswagon bus
and an oversized historic Route 66 sign.
The other teams involved in the event were the City of Albuquerque, whose structure depicted
a Wright Brothers-era biplane and a modern jet flying through
clouds of marshmallows; AMEC Environmental, whose structure
depicted the New Mexico flag
flying over a Native American pueblo; US Bank, whose structure
depicted the Sandia Mountains at sunset with the Sandia Tram
traveling up the face; and Jaynes Corporation and ACE Leadership
High School, who structure depicted the official New Mexico question, Red or Green? – chile,
that is!
Judges for the event were the mayor of Rio Rancho, Tom
Swisstack; New Mexico Oil and Gas Association Executive
Director and former New Mexico State Senator Kent Cravins; Chief Engineer John D'Antonio of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District; Ian Anderson, Publisher of New Mexico Business
Weekly; and Sonya Warwick from
Roadrunner Food Bank.
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Contact: Jennifer House
Phone: 505-855-5257
E-Mail: jennifer.house@ch2m.com
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