UCANE’s 10th Annual Trade Show

UCANE’s 10thAnnual Trade Show

When UCANE Contractors and Associate Members attend our Annual Trade Show, it is a sure sign of Spring!

COVID-19 canceled our Trade Show in 2020. In 2021, with COVID-19 still around but better understood and vaccines available, UCANE and a dedicated group of members held a modified version of our Trade Show outdoors at the Irish Cultural Centre in Canton, MA. Showers might have put a damper on the 2021 Trade Show, but for those who attended, it was a welcome event!

Fast forward to Wednesday, March 23, 2022. With the original strain of COVID-19 under control, ICU beds in Massachusetts empty, and a much milder strain of the virus still lingering around, UCANE members were more than excited to return to our original Trade Show format.

From 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (prior to our Annual Forecast Meeting), close to 300 UCANE members and guests casually walked through the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Norwood, MA. They were getting a close-up look at some of the latest construction products and services on the market displayed on tables set up by 35 UCANE Associate members. As important, our members once again had a chance to renew old acquaintances and meet some of our new members.

Each year, our Trade Show precedes UCANE’s Annual Forecast Dinner Meeting (see article page 58). At this meeting our guest speakers from some of the largest and most respected Massachusetts agencies that fund water and sewer construction, unveil their capital budgets and construction project lists for the upcoming season. UCANE members always have great anticipation for our Forecast

Meeting, which is traditionally the most well attended dinner meeting of the year.

Tables at the Trade Show are made available at no charge to those members who advertise in our monthly publication, Construction Outlook magazine, as our way of thanking them for their ongoing support. Long recognized as the premier trade magazine in New England, not only for its content, but for its high-quality presentation, Construction Outlook can be found on the desks of every UCANE member, every DPW director in all 351 cities and towns across the state, as well as our State and Federal legislators. It can also be found on decision maker’s desks at dozens of State and Federal agencies that impact the horizontal construction industry.

Construction Outlook can also be viewed on UCANE’s Website at www.ucane.com. In addition, our magazine ads are scrolled across the home page of our website, and in our monthly e-news letters at no additional cost to advertisers. There is no better, or more affordable way to promote your business and your products to the construction industry than through Construction Outlook magazine.

For further information on advertising opportunities and participation in the 2023 Trade Show, please contact Suzanne at shatch@ucane.com or call the UCANE office at 617-471-9955. continued on page 67

UCANE extends its sincere thanks to all of our members and advertisers who have helped to strengthen our organization by their ongoing support. Our Board of Directors asks that our Contractor Members please give our Associate Members and advertisers an opportunity to bid whenever possible. n

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