Join us for Boston’s 2025 Canstruction Competition - a unique event where creativity meets community impact. Canstruction is a design-build competition that brings the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (A/E/C) community together to fight food insecurity.  The 2025 theme is Games! From board games to video games, playground classics to brain-teasing puzzles, this year’s challenge invites teams to play with creativity and strategy. Whether you build to win, level up, or just roll the dice now’s your chance to join the fun! Ready to play? 

Event Highlights

The key dates that you need to plan for this year are:  

Beneficiary

Merrimack Valley Food Bank

Participation Details

Canstruction is a friendly competition where teams from all over Massachusetts come together to showcase their creativity and vie for awards, and at the heart of it all is a shared commitment to making a positive impact in our communities. The 2024 competition saw 26,947 cans benefit the Merrimack Valley Food Bank, an organization that serves individuals and families in 32 cities and towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

For more information, please visit https://smpsboston.org/Canstruction. More detailed information on schedule, structure regulations, and awards will be provided to teams as they sign up, or to teams that are considering participation. Please email [email protected] for further details.

The excitement and energy that surround Canstruction are truly inspiring, and we encourage participants to join us in the fight against food insecurity, one can at a time.

View List of Attendees Here  (Remember to select the event you are interested in attending, and then click View!)

Event Organizers

Anna Luciano, Director of Marketing, Nitsch Engineering
Alexa Prenovitz, Proposal & Content Specialist II, Tighe & Bond

Cancellation Policy: Registration fee for this event is non-refundable. If your team is unable to participate, we will transfer your event registration fee to an SMPS event sponsorship recognition.