{"id":359044,"date":"2026-04-01T19:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359044\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:22:12","slug":"eastern-institute-of-technology-given-10m-to-finish-rebuild-of-main-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359044\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Institute of Technology given $10m to finish rebuild of main campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">However, EIT said in a release that it had relied on \u201climited insurance proceeds\u201d to carry out the rebuild.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Eastern Institute of Technology has been given a boost. Photo \/ NZME\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Eastern Institute of Technology has been given a boost. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cInsurance funding has not been sufficient to fully meet long-term rebuild needs,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">EIT\u2019s new chief executive, Lucy Laitinen, did not say exactly where the $10 million would go when asked by Hawke\u2019s Bay Today, but confirmed it would be used on projects \u201cwe\u2019ve had to mothball due to lack of funds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis funding will help fill critical gaps in our rebuild and ensure our Taradale campus can continue to serve Hawke\u2019s Bay for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds said \u201cup to $10 million\u201d had been approved by the Government to support the rebuild and improvement of EIT\u2019s Hawke\u2019s Bay campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis funding is intended to help address critical gaps not covered by insurance and support the next stage of the rebuild, rather than fully fund the entire rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">EIT council chair David Pearson said the funding was \u201ca genuine game changer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Flood waters ravaged EIT's Taradale campus in 2023. Photo \/ Warren Buckland\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Flood waters ravaged EIT&#8217;s Taradale campus in 2023. Photo \/ Warren Buckland<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have rebuilt as much as we could with the resources available, but there have been clear gaps that insurance simply will not be able to cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis investment gives us certainty as we complete the next stage of our rebuild and plan for the future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am delighted and deeply appreciative of the Government\u2019s support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">About 90% of ground-floor buildings were flooded and contaminated with silt at the main campus during the cyclone, damaging more than 500 teaching and support spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Many buildings were unusable for months after the floods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">EIT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/eastern-institute-of-technology-begins-search-for-new-boss-former-ceo-rules-himself-out\/3N2U4HYC7JGWHPOD2A3LW7FGF4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">returned to independence<\/a> this year with its own local leadership, after three years being part of the failed nationwide polytech Te P\u016bkenga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, EIT said in a release that it had relied on \u201climited insurance proceeds\u201d to carry out the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45054,1558,39181,3381,11585,18984,71,19724,266,14995,3120,1132,3607,111,43,139,69,1118,17152,145,61],"class_list":["post-359044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-10m","tag-been","tag-campus","tag-complete","tag-eastern","tag-finish","tag-from","tag-given","tag-government","tag-institute","tag-main","tag-million","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-rebuild","tag-technology","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}