Nagle Hartray Builds!

"Cantastic Voyage" Awarded “Jurors' Favorite”
On June 4, Nagle Hartray sponsored and participated in Canstruction Chicago 2008, the second annual design/build competition to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Nagle Hartray was one of twenty teams comprised of architects, engineers, contractors, and the real estate community from the Chicago area to build a colossal structure made entirely from cans of food. All of the structures will be on public display June 6 - 23 and at the end of the exhibit, all food will be donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. This year the event will donate $5,000 cash and over 90,000 pounds of food, which will provide over 67,000 meals.

The structures were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of jurors including Alpana Singh, Billy Dec, John Carroll, Jimmy Bannos, Craig Vespa, and Zoka Zola. Nagle Hartray proudly announces that with over 6,000 cans of spinach, fruit salad, beans, tuna, and bottled water used to build "Cantastic Voyage", the team took the top honor of "Jurors' Favorite" and will proceed onto the national competition at the AIA Convention in 2009. Click here to see the build: Canstruction Build

The build team wishes to thank our sponsors for their very generous donations that made our build possible: Aldi Stores, ArchiTech Consulting, Brann Clay Products, Capital Properties, Centria, Clearedge Solutions, Clifton Gunderson - Jerry Brand, Coman & Anderson, Construction Cost Systems, Evanston Lumber Co., Graff, Anhalt, Schloemer and Associates Inc., IDM Group, Johns Manville, Lees Carpet, Mankato-Kasota Stone, Morr-Sharp Associates LLC., Nathan Chapin Ltd., Retirement Services - Peter Kearney, Sunset Foods, Ted Wolff Landscaping, The Rockwood Co. - Dan Berman, The Rockwood Co. - Mike Sobel, VS America Inc., W.B. Olson Inc., WMA Consulting Engineers Ltd.

Cool Globes in D.C.
Last year, Nagle Hartray designed and built a globe installation for "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet," an innovative public art project along Chicago’s lakefront. This year, the Nagle Hartray team was invited to reconstruct our Cool Globe at the U.S. Botanic Garden in the “One Planet – Ours! Sustainability for the 22nd Century” exhibit running May 24th through October 13th. See the construction of our globe: Cool Globe Build