"It Starts with One Can. To Feed the Hungry.
To Lift the Spirit. To Change the World." - Canstruction Calgary

Fourteen teams from around Calgary competed against one another to create and build amazing sculptures entirely out of cans!  After the competition, all of the food will find it's way into the cupboards of needy Calgarians via the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank.

Each team was responsible for collecting the food used, and once the competition was over, the structures were "decanstructed" with the all materials donated to the Inter-Faith Food Bank. 

Sculptures were judged in five separate categories: structural ingenuity, jurors' pick, best meal, best use of labels and best use of theme.

"The theme for the competition this year was 'Go Wild' so this was a wildly driven truck smashing into a wall," said Brett McClutcheon of Spartan Controls.  "We had a bunch of cans of spam that we used for our rear bumper to make it chrome." 

The structure was designed to use over 4200 cans of various shapes and sizes weighing over 4000 lbs all of which benefit the Food Bank.  The scene was 9 feet by 9 feet in size and over 6 feet high and was made mostly of Alphagetti, Stagg Chili, Chef Boyardee and Tuna.

About Canstruction Calgary
Canstruction® Calgary is an amazing competition using canned food and other non-perishable items as building blocks. The event brings together multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, designers, architects and builders to create extraordinary structures, which are judged, exhibited to the public and then de-canstructed, with all food going to the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank.

In 2006, Canstruction®Calgary donated more than 30,000 pounds of food to the foodbank.

Canstruction® Calgary is the local chapter of Canstruction®, a global anti-hunger project, founded by the Society for Design Administration, an affiliate organization of the American Institute of Architects. Founded more than 10 years ago, the event is now held in more than 50 cities across North America.