From the Floor of GreenBuild Part II
November 13th, 2009 | From the Field, Marketing | From the Show Floor, greenbuild expo, Pete H, phoenix, trade show, Troy G
Sitting in an Airport after a Successful GreenBuild
Whew what a week. Awesome show, great networking opportunities, and hopefully some followup that will expand our network even further. We met quite a few architects and designers using Reward ICFs in the area. We learned some projects won regional awards throughout the country. I’m following up with those individuals to get some more information to showcase to everyone here on aBlog.
I had the opportunity to walk all billion and a half square feet (seemed like that) and checked out a bunch of new products and some companies I never knew existed. There were some interesting booths going on as well:
A flooring company who hired a Yoga instructor and did yoga in the booth. Didn’t quite get that one, but her poses were interesting.
ASU had a booth with a pretty cool setup, caught my eye anyway.
Below is a pic of a design firm who hired caricature artists to draw people as they talked with reps from the company. No I did not get drawn…I had half billion more feet to cover.
-AutoDesk’s booth made all of their exhibit out of corrugated paper rolls, wonder if they designed the booth using BIM?
-The main sponsor of the whole event had, hands down, the best enter to win prize out of all 1100+ exhibitors. Even cooler than the Vespa Scooters, cash prizes, and iPods. This picture describes it all. I want that in my living room. Yes that’s Urinal plumbwork.
There was also a fully interactive hospital room, the nurses were not real though.
And to show the commitment to recycling at the show, and all around the city as well, this trash can was manned by a recycling “facilitator”. I didn’t dare throw paper in the plastic bin.
So the week is over and sadly I must leave all the sun and the 90 degrees and get ready to hunker down for the winter here in Omaha. It was a little dreary of an exit as it took all of 20 minutes to completely dismantle the show.
10 minutes after closing- where's the carpet!!!
If you didn’t make the trip this year I hope aBlog by Reward has given you peek inside the show. Hopefully we’ll see you in 2010 in Chicago.
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