Our vision is to develop a centre that supports and promotes the use of environmentally restorative building materials and systems.
Proposal for a Centre for Appropriate Building Technology
Our vision is to develop a centre that supports and promotes the use of environmentally restorative building materials and systems. The YIMFY Centre will have two main areas of focus:
a centre for coordination of research, advice, and advocacy;
a destination site, built using successful natural building methods employing appropriate tech
06/04/2016
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/78612373/international-award-for-warkworth-ecoarchitect
Eco-architect awarded for pioneer work in sustainable building. Graeme North's pioneering work in natural building materials has seen him pick up and international award for sustainable building design.
03/04/2016
Congratulations to Graeme from us all here at YIMFY
Graham North from Ausbale in NZ and ebanz has just won the Bale Heart Award.
29/03/2016
The small cob building workshop went great over the weekend. A big thanks to everyone who took part. We will be running other workshops later in the year also.
Thank you so much to everyone who either hosted an event or visited one of the great homes or workshops during Natural Building Weekend.
28/01/2016
Come and visit Earthship Te Timatanga as part of the YIMFY NZ Natural Building days. The earthship was recently featured on Grand Designs New Zealand. More details here: http://www.yimfy.org.nz/events/nbd-list.asp
24/01/2016
Hi Everyone. Here's a great opportunity to come and see natural building in action through a selection of tours, talks, visits and workshops around New Zealand this February. Find out more information at: http://www.yimfy.org.nz/events/nbd-list.asp - This is a FREE event but numbers are limited so register your interest now.
NZ Natural Building Days. 13-14 Feb 2016 An opportunity to come and visit a selection of Natural Buildings around NZ this February and find out more about natural and appropriate building.
21/11/2015
Come and join us on this workshop series with Graeme North, in which we will be showing you how to build a 10 sq m cob building to NZ building code.
Natural Building Workshop 2016 - Auckland area with Graeme North Join us for this unique 5 day event spread over two weekend workshops in March and April 2016. In this workshop series you will learn how to construct a 10m2 cob building using readily available local and natural materials.
04/09/2015
YIMFY will be at the 2016 ISBC which is being held in New Zealand. This short video gives some information about the conference. Visit the website at http://www.strawbuildconference.co.nz
International Straw Building Conference 2016 - ISBC Short introduction to the ISBC 2016
13/08/2015
Over the course of the next few weeks we will be releasing a series of short films, visiting a variety of natural homes and buildings throughout New Zealand. In this video we visit with Graeme and Denise at their natural home an hour north of Auckland, close to Warkworth.
Natural Homes - Graeme and Denise In this series of short videos we will visit a variety of natural homes and buildings throughout New Zealand. Ib this video we visit with Graeme North and hi...
01/07/2015
Meet some of the YIMFY team and learn more about the YIMFY Trust heading towards its public launch in early 2016.
The YIMFY Story - Meet The YIMFY Team. Meet the YIMFY team as they speak about YIMFY and working towards the public launch in early 2016
30/04/2015
The Year of Mud - is giving away a free straw bale building PDF if you would like it!
http://www.theyearofmud.com/2014/12/23/free-straw-bale-building-book/
Free Straw Bale Book: Build It With Bales | The Year of Mud Welcome to The Year of Mud! Be sure to sign up for our free newsletter. Don't forget about our 2015 Straw Bale Workshop outside of Berea, KY, too! Build It With Bales is a straw bale building classic, published in 1997. Though the book is a bit older now, it still has plenty of good […]
12/04/2015
The green roof has now been planted on the roof over the oven. Just some final plastering and groundwork to complete now.