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Make contact: ABX 2016 - Nov. 15 to 17 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

PrintBoston, MA ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX), the largest building industry event in the Northeast, is back. From November 15 to 17 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, ABX attendees can explore the showroom floor and enjoy over 400 exhibitors, new products, live demonstrations, and installations. Four daily demos by ProTradeCraft.com will illustrate best practice installation techniques for energy efficient remodeling and construction. ConstructionVR will host more than a dozen firms actively working on Virtual/Augmented Reality applications for AEC. What’s In! presents the winner of an international design competition to build social spaces for urban places. And of course, the storied Photo Exhibit, featuring work by the Northeast’s finest design firms, will be on view. BSA Space@ABX provides a place to network, get to know the BSA and BSA Foundation board members, volunteers, and staff, as well as an ArchitectureBoston reading nook, and an opportunity to check out the work of BSA committee-driven Make Tank.

There’s a robust conference program this year featuring 14 tracks, 140 workshops, 11 tours, countless big ideas, and practical applications. The ABX conference program is led by a wide range of industry experts, big thinkers, and visionaries, and tackles some of the most pressing AEC issues of the day.

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• Building Enclosure

• Building Energy and Systems

• Business Matters

• (New) Business Models

• Certifiably Healthy

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• Design Matters

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• Inclusion and Equality

• Modern Marketing and Business Development

• Planning Cities

• Preserve, Restore, Reuse

• Resilient to Climate Change

• Technologies

ABX connects architects, engineers, builders, contractors, developers, project managers, landscape designers, manufacturers, and other AEC professionals.

Admission to the exhibit hall is free when attendees register with the promo code ABX2016 at abexpo.com. Workshops can be purchased a la carte and some special daylong packages are available. Register at abexpo.com and be part of it.

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