Your buyers spend all day reading equipment specs. They’ll read your booth the same way.
Fixed-price AHR Expo exhibits — design, fabrication, graphics, freight, installation and dismantle in one number that doesn’t move. Pre-built, lit and photo-approved before it ships, so what stands up on the world’s largest HVACR floor has already stood up once.
Filters the booths below — every one shows its Chicago price.
AHR Expo attendees are contractors, engineers, distributors and facility managers — people who evaluate equipment for a living and walk a floor full of working units. The work below is what we build for brands whose product has to be demonstrated, not just displayed: custom structures designed around the demo, with every project moving through one team from first rendering to dismantle.
Microsoft
Modular island scaled across a multi-show programme — the model for a manufacturer’s yearly circuit.
IMAX
Large-format island engineered around heavy in-booth equipment.
Fulcrum GT
Full-height LED as the structure — visible down a long McCormick-scale aisle.
Teramind
1,800 sq ft island with hands-on demo zones — the layout working-unit exhibitors need.
Appdome
Demo theatre built for high-volume technical traffic and deep questions.
Radware
Hands-on learning stations inside a four-sided island — built for buyers who touch before they trust.
SpyCloud
Interactive stations arranged for the one-to-one spec conversation.
WillowTree
Enclosed rooms off an open front — where distributor deals actually close.
AHR Expo fills McCormick Place — the largest convention center in North America — with the heaviest show floor in the events calendar: working chillers, rooftop units, compressors and controls, all running live. Booth planning here is one part design and two parts logistics, and the exhibitors who treat it that way own the aisle.
North America’s largest convention center runs on strict dock schedules and a marshalling yard where drivers wait for a target time — miss yours and your booth sits in a queue on the clock. Add Chicago winter to inbound freight and the margin for error shrinks further. We book dock targets early and build a weather buffer into every shipping plan.
This floor carries real machinery — units running live, heavy equipment on the concrete, and attendees who expect to open panels and check specs hands-on. That means power planned around the demo, floor loading confirmed before the layout is drawn, and sightlines that survive standing next to a competitor’s ten-ton chiller. We design for that reality, not a white-background render.
AHR Expo opens the year, so approvals and graphics land across Thanksgiving and the December holidays — when production everywhere runs half-speed. Advance orders come due roughly eight weeks out, in late November. Miss that window and you’re not late, you’re paying floor rates for everything.
Booth space, electrical, drayage, rigging and cleaning are billed to every exhibitor directly by the show’s general contractor — no exhibit house can absorb them and none should claim to. What we do is calculate them for your exact booth before you commit, and file every order at advance rather than floor rates.
Equipment-heavy shows are where exhibit-house invoices go to grow: labour hours over estimate, revisions rebilled as change orders, graphics reprints, supervision time nobody flagged. Our model is the opposite — the number you approve is the number you pay, contractually. Design revisions are unlimited until you approve. The quote and the final invoice are the same document.
Design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, lighting, freight, installation, dismantle and project management in a single fixed price.
Your booth stands fully assembled and lit at our 65,000 sq ft facility, and you approve photographs of the actual build — not a render.
Space, electrical, drayage and rigging calculated for your exact booth before you commit — so the total is a number, not a range.
COI, EAC, electrical, rigging, freight windows — filed at advance rates, mapped to every exhibitor-manual deadline. Nothing lands on your desk three days before it’s due.
We quote higher and cost less. That’s the whole argument, and it’s why every booth below is published with its price rather than hidden behind a “request a quote” form.
Every booth below is priced for Chicago and available as a custom build for your brand — rented, not bought. Use the finder at the top of the page to narrow by size and budget.
12 booths · Chicago, Illinois pricing
The advance-order cutoff lands roughly eight weeks before the show — the exact date is in the facts strip at the top of this page, and it updates automatically each edition. For AHR Expo the calendar is unforgiving twice over: the production weeks this timeline assumes don’t exist between Thanksgiving and New Year, and January freight into Chicago needs a winter-weather buffer no one regrets building in.
Put these to every exhibit house you’re comparing — including us. They separate the vendors that stand behind a number from the ones whose estimate is an opening position. Our answers are printed here so you can hold us to them.
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Tell us your footprint, what you’re demonstrating, and what the booth needs to do. You’ll have design concepts and one fixed price back within 24 hours — including what the show will bill you directly.
Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451
