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Eastern Contractors Association is proud to announce our support for the 2024 Capital Region CANstruction event taking place at Crossgates Mall through May 20. This year's theme is “Dream STEAM: If you can dream it, you can STEAM it” and includes entries from ECA member firms A.O.W. Associates, Inc., Sam Greco Construction, Inc., and Ryan Biggs Clark Davis Engineering & Surveying. With seven other entries, this year's event boasts 10 different displays plus an additional entry from the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York. Visitors are encouraged to bring canned goods (tuna, beans, canned vegetables, soups/chilis, and fruit) to Crossgates Mall and participate in the CANstruction competition and food drive. Visitors can use their canned goods as ballots to vote for the winner of the People’s Choice award. Additionally, ECA members C2Design Group and CHA Consulting Inc. also participated in CANstruction this year as part of the Hunger Heroes that raised more than $9,000 and gathered more than 4,500 pounds of food to benefit the Food Pantries. CANstruction is a friendly design competition fighting hunger in cities all over America. Here in the Capital Region, it brings together teams of local professionals in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction community, challenging them to imagine and bring to life structures made completely of canned food goods. After being on display at Crossgates, each can will be donated to the Food Pantries for the Capital District. Since its inception in 2011, Capital Region CANstruction has donated over 907,000 lbs. of food and more than $378,000 to The Food Pantries for the Capital District. ECA has been a sponsor of the CANstruction event for numerous years. For more information, visit the CANstruction facebook page at: www.facebook.com/CapitalRegionCanstruction