EP Engineering participates in 30th annual Canstruction design competition

Manhattan, NY EP Engineering participated in the 30^th annual Canstruction design competition at Brookfield Place. Canstruction is an international charity competition where architects, engineers, contractors, and students compete to design and build structures made entirely from full cans of food.

On November 9^th, a panel of jurors were tasked with selecting winners from the 21 creative Canstruction sculptures.

Jurors included Eitan Bernath, City Harvest Food Council member, chef, cookbook author and principal culinary contributor to the Drew Barrymore Show; Anita Lo, City Harvest Food Council member, chef and cookbook author; Tara Cox, managing editor, Real Simple Magazine and John Duffy, board of directors, Adam Lewis Academy.

EP Engineering used 3,327 cans in this year’s structure, titled, ‘Gazing into the CANsmos’ and a total of 3,500 cans will be donated to City Harvest. This year’s structure was modeled after the James Webb Space Telescope and took four hours to complete. “At the close of the competition, all of the food from the cansculptures and food donations from the public will be donated to the City Harvest, New York’s first and largest food rescue organization, helping to feed millions of New Yorkers who struggle to put meals on their tables,” said Erin Martinez, office & marketing manager, EP Engineering.

The 20 teams competing in this year’s competition include, AKF, Arup, BluEdge, CRTKL, DeSimone Consulting Engineers, EP Engineering, Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP, HLW International LLP, HOK, KPFF Consulting Engineers, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers, Microdesk, Inc., NV5, Perkins Eastman, Severud Associates, Simpson Grumpertz & Heger, Stantec, Thornton Tomasetti, Urban Architectural Initiatives RA PC and WSP USA. A combined total of 86,908 cans from all the structures were donated to City Harvest.