Wao Summit Event Programme
Better Building Brekkie & Trade Show
Good ideas travel faster over breakfast. Connect with industry peers, explore trade stalls and start the day with conversations that build better.
Kick things off with a free brekkie from PlaceMakers Wānaka, then wander the trade stalls featuring businesses and organisations innovating and working towards a better building industry. Come along to chat with the stalls, catch up with new and familiar faces, and fuel up before the day's sessions begin.
TRADE STALLS
PlaceMakers Wānaka
Built for trade with NZ’s largest range, expert service, and tools that make business easier.
Pro Clima
For airtight, healthy buildings, with underlays, membranes, tapes, and sealants that keep homes dry, durable, and energy-efficient.
XLAM
Mass timber construction, with New Zealand-grown plantation pine and prefabricated panels.
StrawSIPs
High-performance straw-timber wall panels that cut heating costs, improve indoor air quality, and simplify construction.
New Zealand Institute of Architects
Advocacy, professional development, and awards that promote and celebrate outstanding architecture across Aotearoa's cities and natural environments.
Environmental Innovation Centre
Uniting innovation, research, and environmental solutions to lead the change for a sustainable tomorrow.
WAI Wānaka
Working with individuals, community groups, farmers, catchment groups, councils, schools and businesses to improve ecosystem health, reverse biodiversity loss and keep the water healthy.
+ more Stall Holders to be announced!
Better Building Brekkie at Queenstown Airport
This event it brought to you by Queenstown Airport Corporation
Discover how circular economy principles are being applied to a major infrastructure project and explore practical ways to reduce waste through better design and construction.
What does it take to embed circular thinking into one of the region's largest infrastructure programmes?
Join us at Queenstown Airport's Provenance Café at 7.30am for a Better Building Brekkie and hear from the team behind Queenstown Airport’s capital works programme about circularity and better waste management.
Queenstown Airport will also discuss how broader sustainable design principles are being factored into the design and delivery of the Airport's capital works programme.
This is a free event thanks to our Better Building Sponsor Queenstown Airport Corporation
CPD points for NZIA members:
NZIA-registered ticket holders are eligible for 10 CPD points for attending this event. Check out the FAQ page for more information.
LBP points can also be claimed for attending.
Better Building Brekkie
Join us at the Queenstown Airport, Provenance Café for a free Better Builders Brekkie! We’ll hear from the Queenstown airport on some sustainability plans they have moving forward and from QLDC on what’s happening throughout the district in terms of reducing construction waste.
Building Better Builders' Breakfast - Wānaka
Join us for the Launch of the "This is How We Build" Campaign. Enjoy a coffee and food and listen to some of the local builders talk about their moves to reduce waste in the industry and lower their footprint.