World of Asphalt and AGG1 2027Exhibitor guide for New Orleans: booth costs, key dates, deadlines

Space runs $27.00 per square foot for NAPA, NSSGA or AEM members and $39.25 for everyone else, and that rate already includes machine handling, crate storage and nightly cleaning. A 20×30 island from us runs $25,000 to $55,000 as a rental or $75,000 to $175,000 custom. Platforms and rigging move the number.

December 1, 2026: every exhibitor with 400 square feet or more must send show management a detailed floor plan with dimensions, heights, weights and structures, and should not start construction without written approval. We need your concept by early November to file it in time.

A rental from us covers walls, fabric graphics, lighting, counters, a viewing platform if the machine needs one, flooring and storage, with freight, install and dismantle on one fixed price. Because the show's own package already moves and spots your machines, the rental is about the space around them.

Not in the usual way. The Exhibitor Package Plan in the 2027 space rate covers unloading and reloading crates, delivering machinery from the marshaling area, operators for self-propelled units, plywood planking and spotting. Electrical, carpet, booth labor, rigging and extra floor protection under tracked machines are billed separately.

Louisiana is right-to-work, so full-time employees may assemble an exhibit, wearing the installation badges show management issues. Hanging signs are different: assembly and rigging must be arranged through the Morial Convention Center. Any outside builder files Exhibitor Appointed Contractor and Non-Official Contractor forms by February 12, 2027.

A paver or truck parked for display keeps its battery cables off and at most one-quarter tank, five gallons tops, with a taped or locked cap. Welding, open flames or smoke need individual approval from the convention center. Show management recommends staying under 85 decibels at 10 feet and shuts off repeat offenders.

No. World of Asphalt and AGG1 exhibitors, their dealers and distributors may not exhibit or run a demonstration within 150 miles of the Morial Convention Center during installation, show or dismantle days, and New Orleans hotels have agreed not to host exhibits. Every demo lives inside your booth.

We build the platforms, walls and counters in modules that can travel to World of Concrete in Las Vegas or The ARA Show with new graphics. After New Orleans the kit comes back to our warehouse, and we rebuild the platform to the next machine's height when your lineup changes.

Monday, March 15 to Wednesday, March 17, 2027. The exhibit floor is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, with education running through the same days. Installation starts Friday, March 12.

The 2027 show fills the Morial Convention Center beside the Mississippi in New Orleans, with NSSGA's AGG1 Aggregates Academy & Expo in the same building. The 2025 show was in St. Louis, and NSSGA reports there was no 2026 show, a year off for CONEXPO-CON/AGG.

More than 11,500 asphalt and aggregates professionals attended the 2025 show in St. Louis, on an exhibit floor of more than 230,000 square feet. For 2027 the organizers list 250,000 net square feet, 450+ exhibitors and 120 education sessions.

World of Asphalt is owned by the National Asphalt Pavement Association, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers and the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association, and produced by AEM. AGG1 belongs to NSSGA, which also manages it. Both shows exhibit under one set of 2027 rules.

Apply on the Exhibit Space Application & Contract through show management. The January 16, 2026 priority round is over, so show management now assigns remaining space in the order applications arrive, with full payment due because the October 9, 2026 balance date has passed. Spaces run in 10-foot increments from 100 square feet.