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Aug. 22-25, 2012. The FarWest Show is a nursery trade show with nursery tours, seminars, nursery and allied supplier exhibitors, workshops on the expo floor, new plants and new products. It’s an experience attracting members of the nursery industry from across the country and internationally. Visitors could check out the new plants that captured the attention of this year’s New Varieties Showcase. 45 speakers conducted 29 seminars throughout the three days of the show. FarWest seminars, we learned, are designed to provide valuable professional development in the nursery, landscape and garden center businesses. The speaker lineup included marketer and humorist Michael Katz, customer-retention pro Anne Obarski, garden center business consultant Sid Raisch, and horticulture professors Dr. Raymond Cloyd and Dr. Charlie Hall. You could spot the real garden enthusiasts by their green fingers…
Jan. 18-20, 2012. TPIE is for the Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition, and it comes with oversight from the FNGLA, or Florida Nursery Growers and Landscape Association. This is a trade event about showcasing the latest trends in foliage, floral and tropicals in South Florida. Delegates were welcomed to TPIE’s trade show exhibit area – 200,000 square feet of living and vibrant plants creating a virtual indoor garden of showstopping displays. Additional educational opportunities were available through free demonstrations held each day, as well as a line-up of sessions specific to interiorscape professionals and business managers. With more than 500 exhibiting companies, TPIE offered wholesale buyers the widest array of resources for foliage and tropical plants in the country, it was claimed. This thing seems to be growing…
Jan. 8-9, 2012. The Western Nursery & Landscape show now goes by the more informal name of National Green Center. The National Green Centre claims to be integrating the green industry, consisting of Breeders, Growers, Independent garden centers, Landscape contractors, Landscape designers, Landscape architects, Research professionals, Editors & garden writers, and anyone connected with public gardens. Attendees also included retailers, maintenance specialists, irrigation experts, turf mavens, golf-course builders and maintainers. A highlight was the Sweet Melissa Fashion Show, showing off the hottest new plants in horticulture 50 new plants “rocking the runway with models, music, lights and cameras”. So remember, if you’re going… be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…
“Buildings NY is all about buildings “”commercial, residential and essential”". The show provided the New York metropolitan building owner, manager, architect, contractor and engineer with the products, services and knowledge needed to compete in today’s challenging times. BuildingsNY/GreenBuildingsNY was about efficiency, focusing on renovation, restoration, retrofit and maintenance to keep existing buildings in top condition. Delegates could source and buy what they needed from nearly 7,000 industry professionals representing hundreds of exhibiting companies. Seelers were showcasing building maintenance, retrofit, renovation and restoration, roofing, flooring and green solutions, and energy conservation. The conference program boasted 2 full days of programming on a variety of topics including Architecture, Energy, LEED, Materials, Policies & Procedures, Buildings Management and more. It was like seeing the New York skyline in a whole new way….
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“Call it by its full name: CONEXPO+CON/AGG 2011. It was the international gathering place for the construction industries. Held every three years, the exposition showcased the latest equipment, products, services and technologies in the building trade. With over 2,000 exhibitors shouting for your attention (this is an industry unafraid of making noise, people), you could get up close and size up the newest equipment and technology in the construction industry, bring yourself up to speed on new systems and instrumentation, and see all the latest innovations making the industry greener, safer and more precise. A comprehensive education program during the five-day exposition offered attentive delegates a program of sessions emphasizing industry issues and trends, management do’s and don’ts, and applied building technology. It was so quiet in the seminar rooms you could hear a ton of bricks drop…
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Rome wasn’t built in a day, and nor was the fair Pacific city of Vancouver. BUILDEX Vancouver is one of Canada’s largest trade expositions, welcoming over twelve thousand Design, Construction and Real Estate Management professionals . Over 600 exhibits and more than 50 educational seminars impacted three distinct professional markets: interior design and architecture, property and real estate management, and construction and renovation. Discussions and seminars encompassed building regulations, “sealing the building envelope”, sustainability in construction, “how to get the most out of others” (??? threatening them with a brick maybe?), and the scary-sounding “perils of water, fire and mould”, which sound like three of the construction industry’s Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse…. Speaking of apocalypses, the recession was still being keenly felt, and there was a good crowd huddled around the on-site Job Board…
SURFACES 2011 co-located this year with StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas, the largest North American stone industry event, with a combined conference program offering 70+ educational sessions in key construction industry areas: Building Design & Trends, Business, Care/Maintenance/Restoration, Concrete, Flooring Installation, Marketing, Sales, Stone Fabrication and Installation. There was on-floor education available with the S² Main Stage, GreenStep Sustainability Stage, Connections Cleaning & Restoration demonstrations, Stone LIVE! and StonExchange, Concrete Countertop Institute demonstrations, plus a wide array of in-booth demonstrations. Vendors touted innovative floor covering products in every major category including carpet, tile, hardwood, rugs, resilient and laminate plus the latest in tools, supplies and technologies for the floor covering industry. Quite a floor-show…
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