...promoting the art and science of earth and natural building

Conference 2019

2-3 November 2019
The Gate, Cromwell
Registrations close on Sunday 27 October

To register, click here!

What do you get for your conference registration fee?

With your registration and payment you will have full attendance to all parts of the conference, including presentations from the experts in the field, practical demonstrations, great networking opportunities, two house tours visiting six buildings which have incorporated earth in their construction and subsequent transport, all meals for Saturday and Sunday, and the crowd favourite, annual AGM. 

Cost 

The combination of registering online and payment confirms your place. Cost for members is $375, and non-members $425 (this includes the remaining period of the current years membership). If you are unsure if you are a current member or not, it may help to know that memberships run to the financial year. 

Please pay the fee by direct credit into Kiwibank account # 38-9007-0611251-00 EBANZ Inc., or send a cheque. If you need to send a cheque, please make it out to EBANZ Inc and send to Peter Olorenshaw at 10 Ralphine Way, Nelson 7010. We prefer you make an online payment or bank deposit. Please be sure you clearly declare your payment with your full name.

Conference Schedule

You are welcome to turn up at the conference venue on Friday evening. We will start the sign in process from about 5pm. There will be a film shown by Denise Martin on moisture movement in natural buildings at 7:30pm.

Saturday
7:30am Breakfast
8:30am Welcome, housekeeping and late registrations
9 – 2pm House tours
2 – 2:45pm Jeremy Moyle presenting on Historic Buildings in Otago & NZ
2:45 – 3:30pm Jackie Gillies presenting on conservation & repair issues
3:30 – 4pm Ben Eyers on erosion testing of earth & lime plasters
4 – 4:45pm – Verena Maeder on Esk Head Station homestead restoration
4:30pm Jimmy Cotter with a rammed earth demonstration
5:30pm Film shown on moisture movement in natural buildings
6pm Dinner
7pm AGM
7:30pm Graeme North presenting on the future of earth building in NZ

Sunday
7:30 – 8:30am Breakfast
9 – 2pm House tours
2 – 2:45pm Paul Jaquin presenting on engineering earth buildings in NZ
AND Loquie Urquhart with a hemp & lime demonstration
3 – 3:30pm Hugh Morris on in-plane testing of adobe veneer walls
3:45 – 4:15pm Joel & Rochelle Payne presenting an update on their living house
4:30 – 5:15pm Kieron O’Connell presenting the Wanaka hemp house journey
5:30pm Mike Hodges doing a light earth straw demonstration
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Open mic 5×5’s

Monday
7:30 – 8:30am Breakfast
9 – 2pm Hayes Engineering Works tour and demonstration
2:30pm Arrive back in Cromwell

Monday tour

The Monday tour is going ahead! It will be to Hayes Engineering Works. The 1920s, mud-brick homestead was powered by the factory’s water Pelton wheel and furnished with many ‘modern’ inventions, such as piped radio. A vast collection of artefacts adds immensely to the story of the Hayes’ busy domestic life, as do agricultural buildings which include the stables and dairy.
The workshop – with its labyrinth of overhead shafts, belts and pulleys driving various lathes, drills and saws – was previously powered by
windmill and then a water Pelton wheel, but now runs on an electric motor.

There will be a small extra cost of $60 which covers transport, lunch at Hayes, guided tour and demonstration. Please pay this into the EBANZ bank account.

Meals 

Your conference ticket includes meals for the weekend: Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner, and Sunday breakfast, lunch and dinner. These meals will all be vegetarian. 

Accomodation

Please be aware that you must book your own accommodation. We have reserved rooms at the The Gate for conference attendees, but you must contact the venue yourself. Below is a list of some other accommodation that are in the nearby vicinity of the conference venue. 

We have reserved accommodation at The Gate, which is the same venue as the conference itself. There are twin share and queen available. Price per room, per night for twin share and queen rooms is $155. There are a small number of triple share rooms which are $180 per room, per night. Beds are allocated first in, first served. Please contact The Gate directly if you wish to stay here. EBANZ has only reserved the accommodation for our members. If you reserve accomodation here, you can use this form to connect with others and organise to share a room together.

There is a range of alternative accommodation in the area should you decide against staying at The Gate. In Cromwell there is the Cromwell Top10 Holiday Park and Cairnmuir Motor Camp. In Wanaka there is Oasis; accommodation is in yurts with a main building of rammed earth, who have offered a 10% discount to EBANZ conference attendees (just enter promo code EBANZ when booking). Close to The Gate is also Cromwell Backpackers, which provide beds in dormitory rooms and private rooms. It is a short 5 minute walk from the conference venue. 

Getting to the venue

If you are flying into Queenstown you will need to book a shuttle bus to Cromwell. We recommend Ritchies https://www.ritchies.co.nz/queenstown who can pick you up at the airport and drop you in Cromwell. From the drop off point in Cromwell it is a short walk to The Gate. Other options are
Cromwell Cabs and Queenstown Taxis.

If you are driving to the event and are happy to carpool, or if you would like a ride in someone else’s car, click here to register yourself. Keep costs and emissions down by riding with someone else!

‘Sponsor a Student’

This year we are initiating a sponsorship programme to help cover the costs for students or low-income earners that would like to attend the conference but cannot make ends meet themselves.

If you would like to financially assist another in attending the conference, we welcome any assistance, whether it be a small donation, 50% of a ticket, or covering the cost of an entire ticket. Send us an email to let us know how you would like to contribute. 

If you would like to attend the conference but cannot afford it, please send us an email outlining your situation and how you would benefit from attending the conference. 

To register for the conference click here!