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PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute)

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Commenced:	01/01/1987
Submitted:	03/08/2011
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	96 Kotare Road, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, NZ
Phone:	+64 6 8386269
Website:	www.koanga.org.nz
Climate zone:	Mediterranean

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Wairoa, NZ

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Wairoa, NZ

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Appropriate TechnoloyWorkshop happening now

Project: PRI New Zealand (Koanga Institute)

Posted by Kay Baxter over 12 years ago

We have an amazing group of people here this week to work together to find appropriate ways of building beautiful autonomous homes using local materials, simple technology, for a very low cost.

The last two days ofour Appropraite TecnologyWorkshop is a brain storm of a group of people to come up with strategies and tecniques that could work in NZ for those of us wanting to build legally, very cheaply, using local materials aad mostly unskilled labour.

We have Graeme North (earth building architect) , Peter West ( engineer), several interested and supportive builders, the hemp association representatives, eachfamily from kotarevillage plusthe tutors bob Corkerand Tim barker, plus students brainstorming... we'll up daeyou on the results shortly. In the meantime they have built us a rocket stove pwered oven in our Institute kitchen as part of our retro fitting the old farm house program, and we have redesigned the rocket stove outstide that runs ourshssowers, we have fired hand madetiles to build the next rocket stove, and wehave made various mixes using ourlocal materials to see what the results are and what we might choose to use for walls. including toi toi, raupo, pine needles, clay, sawdust, cowmanure etc. .. more shortly with pics k

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