Everett Norris

Everett has been a licensed builder since 2021. At a similar time he also completed the Passive House Tradespersons course. He is passionate about carpentry, plastering, problem solving and how to make buildings more energy efficient. His passion for building started young, helping family friends construct a strawbale house. Everett trained with high end builders in Hamilton, natural build companies across Australia and in particular with Pat and Nils (German master carpenter) in the Hawkes bay where he built a number of strawbale houses; some of which incorporated airtightness.  

Since moving to Christchurch, Everett and his wife have built a traditional frame barn workshop and a straw bale Passive House Plus on their Port Hills property. Everett was recently featured with his wife Elizabeth on Grand Designs NZ (season 10, episode 3) where they showed their straw bale passive house under construction.