LED Video Wall Rental for AHR Expo

An LED video wall is the single fastest way to make your AHR Expo booth impossible to walk past. For a hvacr audience at McCormick Place, we rent seamless, fine-pitch LED in whatever shape your booth needs — and unlike most companies quoting AHR Expo, we own the panels, so the prices below are ours to honour rather than a reseller's markup.

What an LED wall costs at AHR Expo

Two ways to buy it. Rent per show, or buy the hardware and stop paying rental on every future show — on these rates the crossover is roughly two shows.

How much LED fits your AHR Expo booth

Posters join into walls and the tower's panels build walls too, so an AHR Expo LED budget usually starts as a panel count rather than a square-footage quote. Here is what each booth size typically takes.

Rent-per-show bands assume a standard Chicago show run with install and dismantle. See the LED cost guide for the full rent-versus-buy arithmetic and the pixel pitch guide for choosing a pitch by viewing distance.

Specs we run

• Pixel pitch — 1.2mm, 1.5mm, 1.9mm, 2.6mm and 3.9mm. Rule of thumb: your closest viewer's distance in metres is roughly the coarsest pitch in millimetres you can get away with, so a wall people read from 2m wants 1.9mm or finer.
• Brightness — 800–1,500 nits indoors, which is what it takes to read under McCormick Place hall lighting. High-bright panels available for anything near a window or an entrance.
• Shapes — flat, curved, 90° corners, freestanding towers, hanging circles and cubes.
• Content — live playback, looped brand reels, or real-time feeds and demos; we take MP4, HDMI or a live laptop feed. See running content on a booth LED wall.

Power and rigging at McCormick Place

The wall is the easy part; the venue paperwork is where LED budgets break at AHR Expo.

• Electrical is priced by your deadline — advance orders typically run 30–50% under floor pricing for the identical drop. Get your panel count finalised early so we can put the power draw in writing before the advance deadline.
• Hanging anything is the trades' work — Chicago is the opposite of Las Vegas on self-install: McCormick's Exhibitor Bill of Rights lets your own full-time employees set up a booth of ANY size using their own ladders, hand tools, cordless and power tools. IBEW still owns anything past a standard outlet, and Carpenters/IATSE own overhead rigging and hanging signs.
• Freight and docks — North and South buildings plus Lakeside and West — confirm which building your hall sits in before routing freight, because they are a long way apart.
• Drayage on panels — McCormick Place freight and material handling is Teamsters work, billed per hundredweight by the show's official contractor — the same advance-warehouse-versus-showsite maths applies as in Las Vegas.

What plays well at AHR Expo

Give working equipment room to breathe with clear sightlines and a backlit product wall; use LED loops to explain how the system works.

Rugged product-display booths, backlit product walls and clear sightlines for working equipment demos.

Timing: AHR Expo runs each January, and a January show means your graphics and freight deadlines land in the middle of the holidays — print shops and carriers both run short weeks, so lock artwork in November.

Whether you want a single backwall screen or a wrap-around canvas, we design it, deliver it, install it, and keep a tech on-site at McCormick Place so it never goes dark mid-show. Tell us your booth size at AHR Expo and we'll send a panel count and a firm number, usually same day.

Frequently asked

Can I rent an LED video wall for AHR Expo?

Yes. We rent seamless fine-pitch LED video walls (1.2mm–3.9mm) in any shape for AHR Expo at McCormick Place, with delivery, install, and an on-site tech.

What content should I run?

Short, bold, looping visuals — your product in motion, big type, and brand color. We can help with content too.