Victory, Nelson is a long established inner city suburb. The Victory Community centre combines a school hall, health centre, recreation and social services. The school started out with a vision that to educate a child the entire family must be involved. “Victory Village, comprising Victory Community Health Centre and Victory Primary School, is a unique [...]

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The Marsden Park master Plan. John wants to see Nelson attract talented people who have a passion for their work and the lifestyle. He is a developer of a large subdivision in Marsden Valley, Nelson, and I have come to get an idea of what he is trying to achieve. “Nelson’s industries are the four [...]

Students from the School of Construction at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) are helping with the rebuilding of Sir Edmund Hillary’s house as part of their entry into the Sustainable Habitat Challenge.

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This project deeply implements SHAC principles. Students and young people collaborating and communicating to build a better way.

CPIT is currently completing a scoping exercise to determine the size and shape of CPIT’s entry into the Shac 2011 competition. A brief has been given to students from CPIT’s School of Architecture to scoop and then present to the CPIT Shac committee. Current thinking on this project is that two units may be built, one with [...]

A brief history on the Journey so far Wintec have been building two to three bedroom houses with students for the last 24 years these houses are then on sold into the community as affordable housing. The houses were standard transportable gable or hip roofed hardie blank weather board homes. These houses were great to [...]

The Southland Sustainability Learning Centre – EcoDen is a facility that promotes, motivates and encourages all sectors of the community to be environmentally sustainable, emphasising resource stewardship, energy efficiency and waste minimisation.

The Earthbuilding Association of New Zealand’s newsletter for July 2010. This issue features the Nelson Earthbuilding Workshop, Australian Permaculture Convergence, Gisborne Eco Home Tour, “First Tuesday” Sustainability Speakers Series and more…

We are starting the design process to retrofit one of our small, transportable office buildings.  As it is nearly house-sized, the aim of the retrofit is to showcase a range upgrades possible for Dunedin homeowners to adapt their house to be warmer, more efficient, and to support a range of behaviours. I work at the [...]