Whina chaired most of those meetings. She describes the process as slow in the way that a good decision is slow, which is not the same as delayed.
The result is a plan that looks obvious and was not: one long room facing the marae, everything else behind it, and a threshold deep enough to stand in out of the rain.
Timber from a forest twenty kilometres away, cut and finished locally, which added six weeks to the programme and settled an argument about ownership.
The building is monitored now, and the readings go to the school as well as to us. Nobody has to take our word for how it performs.
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